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minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 days agoadvertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·5 days agoAdvertisers pay Google when your watch ads. Goole pays the creators (and utilities, and rent, and employees, and…). By not watching ads, all those people are not getting paid, hence you are stealing.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·5 days agoadvertisers pay google when google tells them I watched an ad. not when I do it
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days agoEven if you were right (which you aren’t, ads don’t work like that) it would change the fact you’re stealing. Does lying to yourself makes you feel less guilty?
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·5 days agoI’m not lying at all, and I won’t be made to feel guilty for avoiding ads
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days agoDeep down you are kinda guilty already, don’t ya? You know what you are doing is wrong and yelling and strangers makes it easier…
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agono. telling people spreading misinformation they’re wrong is cathartic to me
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days agoWhatever you need to tell yourself. Thieves don’t get far in life, so reconsider someday.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agocalling me names won’t change the facts.
advertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.
Advertisers pay Google when your watch ads. Goole pays the creators (and utilities, and rent, and employees, and…). By not watching ads, all those people are not getting paid, hence you are stealing.
advertisers pay google when google tells them I watched an ad. not when I do it
Even if you were right (which you aren’t, ads don’t work like that) it would change the fact you’re stealing.
Does lying to yourself makes you feel less guilty?
I’m not lying at all, and I won’t be made to feel guilty for avoiding ads
Deep down you are kinda guilty already, don’t ya? You know what you are doing is wrong and yelling and strangers makes it easier…
no. telling people spreading misinformation they’re wrong is cathartic to me
Whatever you need to tell yourself. Thieves don’t get far in life, so reconsider someday.
calling me names won’t change the facts.