The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.
The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can’t afford to pay for actual content.
We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there’s a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc… so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.
Yep. People will criticize it when rich people try to get others to do things for free “for exposure”, but will ask that their media be given to them for free.
No, I was okay when it was a couple unintrusive ads. Now it’s 32 ads with popups and reminders, and notifications and it’s all garbage.
I sub to a few creators I support, but I block every ad I come across. Sites got greedy.