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You’ve been regularly commenting on a website that’s an advertising/marketing channel for a VC firm since 2018.

Seems like it’s more accurate to say that you have a moral objection to either ads you don’t like or things you have to pay for?

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I've been reading HN since around that time, and it's hasn't made me sympathetic toward VC. If anything it's hardened my views against consumption, greed and advertising.

Good advertising will do that to you. Make you think you hate it while it works on you.

HN doesn't force me to watch or read the ads. I can always ignore the posts that are mainly advertising.

So perhaps my moral objections are to obnoxious, in your face, unavoidable advertisements.

If you read the headlines than you've read ads for thousands of products and they are unavoidable since they are inline.

> I can always ignore the posts that are mainly advertising.

This is the reason advertising works. Because people think it doesn’t work on them lol.

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