Thanks for reminding me. I now have subscriptions to Wirecutter and some things on Patreon/Substack but wish there were a better way to incentivize good content than subscribing to entire news sites, especially when 99% of articles on many news sites are vacuous.
This is true, but I’ll expand the discussion to somewhere more niche than I normally see it go: consider getting a tool like ublock origin and using custom filters to remove distractions.
When I see other people use the internet, it boggles me how many parts of web pages are useless to them but allowed to stay for no reason. I take out things like cookie warnings I’ve seen countless times, the very distracting sidebar on StackOverflow[1], or anything else that has a risk of dragging me off course.
I mention this because I notice people usually associate these programs only with ads, when a philosophically anti-adblock person could get a hell of a lot of benefit out of removing annoyances instead, while never doing anything they think would hurt the webpage’s wallet.
There’s rarely a time I don’t want the answer to some pedantic and obtuse question about math, tabletop games, or whatever else, but the time is equally rare that I am on SO and am not, for example, trying to solve a bug or something.
Ads and paywalls are only optional if you’re ok freeloading.
(I can see arguments for either blocking ads or bypassing paywalls, but not both with the same views.)
Thanks for reminding me. I now have subscriptions to Wirecutter and some things on Patreon/Substack but wish there were a better way to incentivize good content than subscribing to entire news sites, especially when 99% of articles on many news sites are vacuous.
This is true, but I’ll expand the discussion to somewhere more niche than I normally see it go: consider getting a tool like ublock origin and using custom filters to remove distractions.
When I see other people use the internet, it boggles me how many parts of web pages are useless to them but allowed to stay for no reason. I take out things like cookie warnings I’ve seen countless times, the very distracting sidebar on StackOverflow[1], or anything else that has a risk of dragging me off course.
I mention this because I notice people usually associate these programs only with ads, when a philosophically anti-adblock person could get a hell of a lot of benefit out of removing annoyances instead, while never doing anything they think would hurt the webpage’s wallet.
There’s rarely a time I don’t want the answer to some pedantic and obtuse question about math, tabletop games, or whatever else, but the time is equally rare that I am on SO and am not, for example, trying to solve a bug or something.