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Lonestarblue

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7. Amen!

Reply to Generic Other (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 18, 2021, 04:52 PM

Feb 2021

Ads have become so in your face that they ruin the online experience. I am already paying a fee to my Internet provider to give me access to the online world. Why should I have to pay another fee to keep the ads away? It’s like paying a fee to be a library member (which I have to do) and getting books with every other page full of ads you have no interest in.

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Silicon Valley-backed groups sue Maryland to kill country's first-ever online advertising tax [View all] Wicked Blue Feb 2021 OP

Break Them All Up mezame Feb 2021 #1

If making them pay taxes means less spam, I am all for it Generic Other Feb 2021 #2

Amen! Lonestarblue Feb 2021 #7

Make them user-access fees instead of a tax bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #3

User Access? GB_RN Feb 2021 #4

And why should we, the users, pay to see ads? nt Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #5

NO they're not, and you'd be charging the behemoth companies for their use, not users bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #6

Gaslighting? GB_RN Feb 2021 #10

Isn't it that way in your country? bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #8

I hate online ads with a passion of a thousand suns and I would not shed a tear if their servers cstanleytech Feb 2021 #9

Online advertising is a money-making MACHINE! BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #11

Go Maryland! Fuck all online advertisers sideways. paulkienitz Feb 2021 #12