First time I've seen this sitting behind my shitty VPN. If the frontpage /r/normaldayinrussia posts didn't make you raise an eyebrow knowing their denying access to people for running a VPN should at least make you second guess.

Get out now, save yourself.

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

One, we did:-D; and two, you can lead a horse to water but... you cannot make selfish & lazy people think.:-(

Only when it affects them personally will they begin to care, and even there they will merely whine and act all shocked - shocked I tell you! SHOCKED!!! - rather than attempt to do anything about it. Huffman was right: the protests were doomed to fail, in the sense that advertisers still pay money to the site.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean that's a pretty narrow definition of "fail."

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I assume it's the only one he cares about?

    Ofc we here tend to feel differently.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I assume he mainly cares about posturing the company to look as healthy as possible for an IPO... Which ad revenue would be a part of, but far from the whole picture.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Every dollar the advertisers pay reddit is a dollar they can't pay a site I actually use.

    If reddit squanders it on BS, they might just accidentally be doing us all a favor by making one of America's worst industries a little poorer.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Except that we (societally) have decided that all of our industries must rely on advertising dollars in order to survive, especially "news" media. I do not like advertising either, but it serves a role, and unless we are willing to pony up to change the system that is just how it is.

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