We all find our compensators and middle-grounds to get through "life as we know it". For me, it's sticking with a Plus account and just ignoring the ads, except for the bright, flashy ones, which I have to power-avoid. For you, the middle ground may lie some klicks to the north of that. The point is that you spend the bulk of your time doing what pleases you, otherwise why bother?
I'm a media brat who can just ignore ads, so it's never been a big deal for me. Like you've said, the money's gotta come from somewhere and I'm not flush enough to pay directly for the privilege. I find your entries interesting and hope to be able to keep up, but my middle-ground finds scanning five blogs (plus all my other necessary web crap) prohibitive, so I'll stay on LJ until it becomes not-worth-it, then maybe go somewhere else. Like an old cowboy movie line I heard once, "There's goers and there's stayers." So I guess for now I'm a stayer. May you find your way as pleasant.
I wouldn't like being forced to view ads while logged in at LJ, but I could learn to cope -- and probably wind up getting around to seeing whether there's a version of Adblock for Opera. My two big problems here are 1) that other people, whose opinions of ads or use of Adblock I have no way of knowing, would see ads on my journal, and 2) I don't want to support LJ until SUP demonstrates that they have adopted a fair and user-oriented operating philosophy and policies -- and providing them with the eyeball-bait advertisers need is supporting them.
Believe me, I understand wanting to stay put, especially if a critical mass of your friends are staying. It's one of the reasons I kept finding excuses not to do this, until it got to this point. It's what kept me here right after Strikethrough, when I really should have left according to principle.
I'm hoping that DreamWidth will find a way to make it possible to keep track of everybody on other sites without having five logins and five browser tabs open to do so -- we're close to that now with RSS and OpenID, but not quite.
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I'm a media brat who can just ignore ads, so it's never been a big deal for me. Like you've said, the money's gotta come from somewhere and I'm not flush enough to pay directly for the privilege. I find your entries interesting and hope to be able to keep up, but my middle-ground finds scanning five blogs (plus all my other necessary web crap) prohibitive, so I'll stay on LJ until it becomes not-worth-it, then maybe go somewhere else. Like an old cowboy movie line I heard once, "There's goers and there's stayers." So I guess for now I'm a stayer. May you find your way as pleasant.
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Believe me, I understand wanting to stay put, especially if a critical mass of your friends are staying. It's one of the reasons I kept finding excuses not to do this, until it got to this point. It's what kept me here right after Strikethrough, when I really should have left according to principle.
I'm hoping that DreamWidth will find a way to make it possible to keep track of everybody on other sites without having five logins and five browser tabs open to do so -- we're close to that now with RSS and OpenID, but not quite.