'You're blowing it': Trump's fans beg him to change course as polls show GOP slipping
'You're blowing it': Trump's fans beg him to change course as polls show GOP slipping
Donald Trump's own fans are begging the former president to change course as Vice President Kamala Harris now reportedly leads him in seven national polls. Trump late Thursday night bragged that one of his endorsed candidates, Bobby Harshbarger, prevailed against incumbent Sen. Jon Lundberg in t.....
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Why do websites think that "turning off my ad-blocker" or "paying for a subscription" are my only two options?
It's the internet. The option to x out of there and go read almost the exact same article elsewhere is always a third option.
Demands only work when you have content no one else does.
I especially like how they've always loaded the full page in the background behind their popup with their little ultimatum. So they've already paid the costs in bandwidth and resources to serve up the page anyway, only for me to just close the tab on them.
On Firefox Mobile, you can install Ublock Origin (at least on Android). You can block JavaScript on a per site basis. Washington Post? NY Times? Some random Podunk page I will never read again?
Fuck you!
Also, notice that all right wing/fascist publications don't paywall articles. That is part of the problem.
There's also option Z, step up your paywall evasion. Small sites especially are vulnerable to that.
archive.ph is a very useful website
To be fair, if you’re not paying or seeing ads, they don’t want you there. You’re increasing their hosting costs and they’re getting nothing in return. They’re better off if you go elsewhere.