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These people cannot control themselves. They're protesting a company by making them money.
The people you want to get off reddit are (shock) on reddit. While it makes reddit money in the short term, it spreads the word to people that aren't aware. Short term gain for hopefully long term loss.
This is also why I don't mind the John Oliver stuff. It's interesting for now, but it will get boring. I just hope it doesn't get stupid like what happened on r/aww
I'm a bit out of the loop, what happened on r/aww?
If you have an adblocker and/or other privacy browser plugins how do they make any money from you? If anything, you've wasted some bandwidth and server cycles, so you cost them money.
I suppose an argument could be made that by adding to it you've created some tiny bit of content someone without adblockers might be enticed to see.
They make them money because:
Now, if enough people go commit ad-block, and advertisers somehow become wise to that fact... then maybe it will hurt reddit's bottom line (at which point spez will start trying to emulate youtube's anti-ad stuff).
But as it stands, especially if most of reddit's usage is through reddit's mobile app... I'm not really sure how you can block ads there.
Those are fair points. Regarding adblock in the official app, you can use ReVanced to patch an .apk similar to how you block ads in YouTube.
Apparently it's app only, which can't easily be adblocked
I'm pretty sure there's revanced patches for that?