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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2h

More than half of all internet users have installed an ad-blocker; Doc Searls calls it the largest consumer boycott in history.

A lonely country road with a large roadside billboard. Thrusting out of the billboard is a punching fist with bloody, spiked brass knuckles; it is surrounded by scabrous craters. The sky is a psychedelic roil of red-brown clouds, from behind which loom indistinct, vast tropical flowers.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2h

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/m...

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 1h

The thing is, it doesn't stop the ad-based business model. It just ends up degrading the existing environment (churn out more ads to compensate for ads having less impact). The big players (and most consumers) are completely dependent on maintaining the illusion of "free" services paid for by ads.

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 2h

I pay for an ad blocker. I've been paying for a year, I just saw the receipt. Apparently an important part of the service is that it randomly breaks into my platform to tell me that I should be spending more money on it.

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