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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do, but it's less about the ads and more about privacy. I don't use things like sponsor block because there's pretty much no privacy violation there. But I do use an ad blocker because advertisers track me across websites to build up a profile.

I also don't want to make a free account, again because of privacy concerns (both from the site and from any data breaches.

I'm happy to pay a little for content, but I haven't yet seen a system that respects my privacy and is reasonably priced. If that was a thing, I'd totally pay.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just use Safari and private relay for that. But yeah I can understand that particular point. I mean I’m not against ad blockers, it’s just that I don’t use them for the reasons I stated.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's totally fair.

I'd really like some extension where I can compensate websites in exchange for not having ads. Let me load up a balance and present the option to deduct $0.0X to see read/watch past the teaser. The website wouldn't need to track me to get paid, and the browser/extension could merely track balances and keep an anonymous accounting of transactions to send a single larger payment later (to save on fees).

I'd totally use that.

[–] kux@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Axate (used to be called Agate) is trying something like this. Popbitch (sue me) use it to charge 0.25 per article or 0.50 for access for a week, but it doesn't seem to be very widespread

I tried https://popbitch.com/royal-blush/ on firefox with ublock turned off and the microtransaction box after the faded out text still didn't display so it might have some way to go yet

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Axate

Huh, I hadn't heard about them, probably because they're UK based? Thanks! I'll check them out.