In "markets," prices are announced and bargained over, not set unilaterally and extracted from anyone unwise enough to cross the threshold.
Adblocking, dickover blocking and other customizations are a way for you to bargain back, to answer the opening bid of "How about you give me all of your data forever and let me do anything I want with it?" with "How about 'nah?'"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah
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Cory Doctorow
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2026-07-21 09:00:05 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…4lrs
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