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.
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.
It may have failed from Huffman’s POV, but it’s a win for those of us who needed that final push to leave that hellsite forever.
I mean that’s a pretty narrow definition of “fail.”
I assume it’s the only one he cares about?
Ofc we here tend to feel differently.
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.
Correct: in all other measures, besides that one super tiny extremely narrow one, he is a massive douche and his company an utter failure. But ad revenue still flows…
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.
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.