This Trash Needs to Be Stopped

The second a website harasses me to turn off my adblocker, I bail. Don't click the replies there's some brainlet battle going on down there. I have my ways of adblocking figure it out yourselves.

It should be illegal for them to make it harder to cancel than subscribing.

Ads dont even make me want to buy the product. It makes me want to stay away from it.

Whenever they make it hard to cancel my subscription I just call my bank and flag the charges as fraudulent.

Imagine wanting to make money by holding people's money hostage rather than actually making a good fucking product.

Best way to avoid half of this, when they ask why your canceling just say "I am going to prison." Your head will spin at how fast they will cancel you.

"Ads help pay the journalists" is such a stupid angle when the subscriber is directly paying the website. Pay the journalists with the money I'm giving you.

They're right, their ads are thought-provoking. Because they provoke thoughts of anger in the reader.

I detest sales. When I was jobless for a long time and at my rope's end, I applied for a sales manager position in a decently-sized company. It made me sick to my stomach to pester people, forcing onto them products they clearly stated they didn't want or need. And I was instructed to keep pressing until either they cave in and agree or hang up. I felt so uncomfortable, like I was an annoying douchebag hitting on a barista at a coffeeshop. I quit literally three days in.

This reminds me of Hulu. First, they came out with shows you could watch free of charge online because there were ads (you know, like TV). Then they moved to a paid tier with no ads and a free tier with ads. Still makes sense, paying to remove ads. Then they moved to no free plan. Now you have to pay to access the content and still get ads, then pay even more to remove the ads. Lol. Also, a lot of people are too young to know this, but when cable was first debuted where you paid to access TV channels, literally all of cable had no ads, since, you know, you were already paying to access it. Then they added ads on top of paying for cable. Greed. Greed never changes.