Agree with most of this. As an aside, I do find it sad that after all these years we still get this from site operators.
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eople will massively move to VPNs (some of them are permanently free but with with slower speeds). You'd think it would absorb some of the losses, but VPNs nowadays integrate ad-blocking features, effectively ripping off content creators and us. Concretely, VPNs are pushing us even further in the negative.
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This has always annoyed me because it is a solved problem. Ad blockers almost never affect integrated, well thought out linking to other sites. It's only the lazy "publish free video, slap banner ad by it, sell banner ads for exorbitant amounts" that have issues.
It converts better, it doesn't annoy users and it works. So weird for a very tech advanced platform to continue with the worst possible method of monetization.