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  • I’m like an atheist monk.

    you might be having SzPD. I’m not saying that but you might think about it.

    I don’t want to travel because it costs money.

    I don’t spend much money on clothing or media and save most of my paycheck.

    then why don’t you use some of those to travel? There are ways to travel less expensively. I had a phase like this when I was a college kid and I saved up the small scholarship (much less than an actual job) and travelled, which did something that depression meds couldn’t do then. ymmv though.









  • I wish I could rely on Patreon and user funding only. That would be the dream, and if Patreon reached the same amount of money monthly as YouTube ads, I would disable ads on my channel (if that’s still even possible?). The reality though, is that we’re not even close to that yet, and so for now, I need ads, and sponsors to pay the bills.

    from https://thelinuxexp.com/Ethics

    so it is not the case always.

    Though IMO if I don’t act based on an ad, the purpose of the ad is defeated and hence effectively the ad is blocked. There are ways to ‘clickjack’ or ‘show’ ads without actually seeing it, my proposal is a simplified version of that. I have never done those ‘ad viewing’ tricks because they are complicated, and probably not suitable for people outside the tech bubble anyway. Also disabling blockers like ubo on a regular browsing session for any website has privacy and potentially security implication, not to mention requirement of using a non blocking dns for the said session.


  • Patreon is great, I’m talking about the gratis option. I personally have no ‘guilt’ regarding ad blockers and I don’t remember last time I saw ad (except on other people’s devices) online1. The question was about convincing people to use ad blocker or alt clients who do not want to or can’t afford to pay creators directly.

    1 excluding sponsorship in videos… I do not use sponsorblock and I found sponsored contents from some channels useful.