1 - using this setup means considerably less info is exiting my systems to feed the beast
and 2 - exactly because I don't see them they're wasting their time on me
I'd say mission accomplished. Wanna guess in how many months the current state of ads/ad R&D would drop to 0 if everyone would do the same like me?
Here is a funny story, from this year. crackwatch dot com (the site, not the reddit) went down. why? because pirates that flocked there with thousands, all had this setup and they got exactly zero ad revenue from their users. Of course they went with a nice corporate BS "we could use more aggressive ads to raise revenue for servers but we respect you guys too much for something like that bla bla..." - translation: we know is not going to work so we just going to cut our losses.
I’m going to echo the sibling commenter. You somehow tried to negate my hypothetical App Store pirates by saying it’s a different situation without commenting on actual substance.
Now you’re admitting your set up is awful for creators and would screw things up for genuine people if everyone did it. Just because whatever creator example may not be a good site or person doesn’t mean that’s how everyone is.
I’m sure you wouldn’t want everyone taking whatever service or product your livelihood depends on.
