pointing out like some kind of abscess.
“I’ve been told there’s a sixth valve somewhere but I’ve never been able to find it.”
An ad blocker that you pay for, and allegedly they pay it forward to the ad publishers. Nope, can’t see any way that could go wrong!
Not only is it a crip tax, it’s being payed to those doing the … disabling.
(And yes, that’s what a lot of disabled people call the extra burdens which can fall on disabled people.)
If anything, that will encourage them to make ads more dangerous than they already are.
I hate ads, too, and the dorks complicit in making them (especially the ones who enable computer-melting malware, animated ads, and ads with autoplaying sound.)
“Encouraging” people pay to disabled the animated, hijacking ads is just entirely too much.
Twitter has just been an absolute hellsite this week with people sending threats to a wheelchair user after she called out an Uber driver for ditching at the curb before pickup. Legit threats from across the political spectrum.
EDIT: we don’t have a “malicious design/society” thread yet, but that would that would be an excellent addition.
Malicious Design [Against] Society
Yes plz.
Those of us who remember cable in the olden days may remember its premise* was ad-free TV.
“Pray I don’t alter it further.”
(* That was my first exposure to it, anyway. Media historians may know differently.)
a.k.a. The Ad-Supported Internet
Which brings us gems like the one linked by @RatMan, above.
(emphasis mine)
Scroll will eventually cost $5 a month. Haile’s company plans to keep up to 30 percent of that fee.
Scroll doesn’t actually block ads itself. […] Scroll will still let publishers present affiliate links, subscription offers, and custom-built native advertising.
But publishers are supposed to strip out banner ads, pre-roll ads, and most of the tracking software that publishers use […] Scroll itself will use tracking technology but says it is doing it solely to figure out how much to pay publishers, and it promises not to sell your information to advertisers or anyone else.
The whole thing sounds a lot like thinly veiled rent-seeking to me (assuming I am not misunderstanding that metaphor, which is totally possible).
To which I say: fuck. that.
Can’t remember where I saw it but there was a clip of an interview where the head of Ea was talking about charging a dollar for every reload.
It’s amazing how many of us distinctly remember that, yet there’s always someone to pop up with a “Well, actually…” about how that time never happened.
There is a frozen landscape of zombie SEO scams surrounding the outer ring of Hell.
By which I mean that ad scumbags will always ad, and always expect to win. Hence their place in all the hells.
Without comment: “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag”
Zooming animation in the intro:
A version of the California band, fronted by Mike Love, are to play the Safari Club International Convention in Reno, Nevada on Wednesday.
Wilson tweeted that he and former guitarist Al Jardine had nothing to do with the event.
Donald Trump Jr is due to be featured as a speaker.
ah yes, the bleach blond boys 
Oh, it’s worse. Some of the worst abuse she got was from a group of middle-aged white-bro podcasters who coincidentally make the exact amount on their Patreon that they accused her of making, claiming she used hers to set up these poor, innocent drivers. It’s an ableist, antisemitic shit-show of abuse. She had to go private when the Nazis then doxxed her and were going after her accounts.
My parents grew up listening to the Beach Boys. I danced around to their records and 8-tracks when I was a tiny kid. To think I could still take my grandson to see them live, and he’s old enough to dance around and have fun with it… That’s just mind-blowing.
Rock Star is a weird profession, either die young or keep performing the same songs over and over for generation after generation after generation.