Reply to post: Re: @werdsmith - People who use adblockers...

Dry those eyes, ad blockers are unlikely to kill the internet

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Re: @werdsmith - People who use adblockers...

Nope. Sorry, not with you at all.

My human sympathy for the leaflet-droppers is no greater than that I feel for the overworked, underpaid fools who cold-call me trying to sell me crap I don't want. In both cases, they're wasting my time and resources, and they have reason to expect me to dislike it. My sympathy for them as humans does not extend to tolerating or facilitating unwanted intrusion on my time and resources.

I have equal sympathy, but a great deal more respect, for the elderly Asian man who methodically (and neatly!) combs through the bins near my office for returnables each week; HE is supporting himself by his own efforts without littering anyone's doorstep, harassing them at dinner time, or trying to sell them crap they are unlikely to want and have never asked for. Keeping the returnables out of the waste stream is socially useful, to boot.

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