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Semiapies
on Aug 5, 2009
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Massacre Gmail Ads with These Two Sentences (and S...
You're not the internet. If
nobody
clicked on those ads, they certainly wouldn't exist.
TallGuyShort
on Aug 6, 2009
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I explicitly said "there are people that click on those ads". Those people don't have Ad Blockers. I don't click on those ads, so I have an Ad Blocker. All I was saying was that it doesn't present an ethical problem.
lucumo
on Aug 6, 2009
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> I don't click on those ads, so I have an Ad Blocker.
It's probably the other way around: You have an Ad Blocker, so you don't click on ads.
antipaganda
on Aug 6, 2009
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No,seriously; there are a TON of people online who hate ads and NEVER click on them. Ever. So we use AdBlock.
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