I never see ads on the Internet thanks to adblocks :D

I never see adverts on the internet thanks to adblock :D


Yes, it is. I don't have to see ads. I get enough of that sh!te on Polish radio and tv and the streets of Poland.


Are you talking about media, like news? I don't really see who your statement is connected to a forum.


But anyway, if you are talking about news media then IMHO we'll well past that I'm afraid. News now, politics anyway, is basically PR spin. Other than that it's events, storms, volcanoes, wars, celebrity sh!te (more PR) and sports (also largely PR)

If your into radio/podcasts have a listen to this:
freakonomics.com/2015/08/05/why-do-we-really-follow-the-news-a-new-freakonomics-radio-episode/
Consuming news is basically just another form of entertainment

No, I wouldn't agree with one single word of that.

It's the other way round, if there's no ads on the internet then people will be free to say whatever the hell they want. And that particularly applies to the news media.

If Denis O'Brien didn't own 75% of Irish media they'd hang him out to dry in their papers, same goes for Rupert Murdoch in UK & Australia.

Then why don't you move to a country that limits advertising to minimum (like New Zealand, Sweden, or Norway, or North Korea: businessinsider.com/north-korea-has-no-advertisements-2013-4). You'd see minimum ads but you'd have to pay 100-200% more to live there (except for NK). Oh, you don't want to pay? Then make up your mind.


We can assume it's true; then why don't you get 100 tickets to some entertainment event (could be U2 concert or Poland-Germany soccer game in Poland) and give it out to 100 PolishForums members who PM you. In your world, entertainment is free, so prove your point :


Why don't you try to say whatever you want on Facebook or Twitter and see how soon you'd get banned : The less news media, the less choices, the more control.

You left out Brazil.
Maybe I'll move, maybe I won't.
But your statement has nothing to do with anything.
I use adblock coz I don't want to see ads, you have a problem with that, then unlucky, but it ain't my problem.


What are you talking about?

Why did you make a new topic?
I didn't want a new topic.
Is it because you can't take criticism on the original thread and don't want posters to see it?
And you've edited out your own questions.
Why would you do that? Very strange behaviour that.


A strange comment.
I never said it's free and I have nothing to prove. Why do you insist on putting words in peoples' mouths?
Sure don't ya pay your cable/internet subscription every month? Netflix? You spotify subscription? etc.

Concert/match tickets are a terrible example, that money must be split in god knows how many ways, the venue, the management, the insurance, the record company, and way down the list the band.


I say whatever I want wherever I want. No censorship on me my boy. I say what I think and if you don't like it then that ain't my problem baby.

It's not interesting to discuss something like with a child ('because I want/can'), so my answer to all of your 'Why?' questions is - 'just because.' That's the language you should be able to understand, enjoy ;)