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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Abso-fucking-lutely not. People need to be able to exist without having hypercommercialism forced on them everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'd rather have a... gags... Subscription.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yup. As jerry illustrated, this shit isn't free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No ads and no donations, they'll put wishful thinking into the skillet and eat that I guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Donations, subscriptions, etc are definitely fine. They are not invasive fuckery that inflict themselves on people without consent, nor do they seep into the space in a commercial manner. Ads do not respect consent and they fundamentally force commerce into every place that they touch.

Ads are the root of the rot in the www.