On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Alec Muffett <alec.muff...@gmail.com> wrote: > One may scream "ZOMG CORPORATE MONETIZATION!!!" but a lot of sites are > getting more frank about saying "Look, we are funded by advertising, please > turn off AdBlock or we will just quit and give up"
>> "You're using ad blocking software. Our site won't work correctly, if at >> all." [see #3 below] >> > ...and in fact, if everyone uses them, the site may eventually cease to > exist. :-) That's an excuse... then their value proposition and even payment acceptance and spreading models, to from and among users, weren't high enough, or frictionless / accessible / compatible enough for certain users, and they deserve to fail. Now among those that do have some value for which some extra payments would help sustain them... Believe it or not, there are many web services out there that do not require DNA samples or other IRL real name/ID bs to hold an account, and when you call / email and ask them nicely if they will accept cash / money order / *coin denoted with and to your account for whatever bump in service level that gives you, they refuse such good tender... foot meets bullet. This also applies to many of the services that will adblock warn / ban you, when removing adverts from your account is one of the express benefits they offer to paid accounts... "pay us and we remove the ads" they taunt on every page. Well, let us pay you then, take our money, bitches. So that's two simple things they're not doing that they could... 1) Anon prepay for monthly services (prepay also implies behaviour) 2) Anon deposits for behaviour for free services (the Tor / IP blockers and SMS/phone harvesters among them) Corps already accept money, so overhead is baloney, do not try to make it a counter argument, otherwise we'll trump it and also pay for the two minutes of part time high school kid's daily routine needed to process ours. Nor is compliance, as anon already permitted above. (BTW, some big compliance service like banks, already established accounts via various secure means, even offline / 2FA, so to their credit for those that do that, they let you login from the entire IPv4 / IPv6 address spaces, anytime, any action. They smart to see no need to block Tor etc of their thus established customers.) -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
