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.(Programming) Internet ads are horrible: They waste your time, and the advertising industry makes the internet a worse place. Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad filled hellhole with no real substance.

Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad filled hellhole with no real substance. Commercial adblockers range from sketchy to outright scams: If they are paying to be promoted, they must expect to make money from users. The message won’t be visible if an adblocker removes the <div> element – which has a lot of ad-like class names – or blocks the network request for “nativeads.js”.

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