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davenport651 t1_j6jrcqh wrote

Reply to comment by lucellent in ‘Extraordinary’ footage shows one of the closest known approaches of a near-Earth object — On 26 Jan. 2023, asteroid 2023 BU was about 2,200 miles above the surface of the Earth by marketrent

If you are using ad blockers then you are not helping recoup the actual costs to operate the public internet. Stop being a freeloader!

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iCameToLearnSomeCode t1_j6k6iwy wrote

Your country might have a public internet but mine doesn't.

I would happily pay a government entity as opposed to my ISP if the service was just as good but until a public option becomes available I pay for my private internet with a monthly bill.

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davenport651 t1_j6kfuvo wrote

Your being needlessly pedantic. Your payment to your local ISP pays for their connection to the broader internet, but that pays NOTHING to any person hosting a website or operating a server on the other side. I assume you know that, but you’d rather justify not watching a 5 second video or clicking the ‘x’ on a pop up window.

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BanishedOutkaste t1_j6knw39 wrote

If it was actually 5 secs I wouldn’t have an issue but they get greedy and lazy. The ads get longer and longer more often unskippable, more frequent, and they show the same damn ones a million times over. It’s their own damn fault I want to block them.

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iCameToLearnSomeCode t1_j6ks3za wrote

The difference between paying for a public internet and paying for a private company's content is not needlessly pedantic.

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