It’s easier to disable all the garbage than remove the garbage?

  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 hours ago

    You need to look at it from their perspective when weighing the inconvenience. You know how to quickly install an adblocker, so it looks like the inconvenience of doing that would be small. But they don’t know how to install an adblocker. And they don’t have the skills to learn how to install an ablocker. They might not even know about the existence of adblockers.

    The thing you need to weigh is the inconvenience of them putting in the effort to become tech savvy. That’s a big inconvenience. So, the inconvenience of dealing with ads and whatnot looks much smaller from their perspective.

    Also, it’s worth noting that there are plenty of Windows users who are tech savvy. There is a lot of convenience that comes from using the dominant OS even if you have the proficiency to use others.

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      The thing you need to weigh is the inconvenience of them putting in the effort to become tech savvy. That’s a big inconvenience. So, the inconvenience of dealing with ads and whatnot looks much smaller from their perspective.

      Yeah, I can follow the train of thought. They don’t know that like an hour of reading now will save them decades of pain, I guess.

      Like, there’s degrees. Learning how to compile Firefox from source with custom changes is way more work than “search: how do I get rid of ads? Search: best adblocker. Click install on ublock.”

      Which brings me back to what I was trying to say earlier. People imagine dealing with these problems is way harder than it actually is, so they don’t even look.

      Something like this is coming up at work. They’re like “oh it’s going to be like weeks of work to get a linter for our code” and I’m like “it’s fifteen minutes please just let me help you”.