{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "If you love ads, then this post is not for you. If you love Tumblr but hate ads and want the one to continue without having to...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/677208761500368896/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://etirabys.tumblr.com/post/677102549314174976/if-you-love-ads-then-this-post-is-not-for-you-if\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">etirabys</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://staff.tumblr.com/post/677081734921224192/this-is-100-new-and-100-tumblr-with-0-ads\" target=\"_blank\">staff</a>:</p><blockquote><h1>This is 100% new and 100% Tumblr with 0% ads.</h1><p>If you love ads, then this post is not for you. If you love Tumblr but hate ads and want the one to continue without having to endure the other, then this post is literally for you. Hello, you.</p><p>As of today, you can set up ad-free browsing on your personal desktop computer, from anywhere in the world, and then enjoy the same effervescent Tumblr you know and love (<b><span style=\"color: #000000\">yes, including mobile</span></b>) without the interruption of ads. Scroll away.</p><p><b>Some caveats:</b></p><ul><li>It\u2019s $4.99 for a month of pure, unadulterated nonsense.</li><li>If you like a discount, you can get 33% off (that\u2019s four months for free) at $39.99 for a whole year. Imagine.</li><li>This is opt-in. You don\u2019t have to do this. We won\u2019t make you.</li></ul><p><b>How do you opt in?</b></p><p>Easy! Just go to your Account Settings on desktop and hit \u201cGo Ad-Free.\u201d From there, you can choose to pay monthly or yearly:</p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"699\" data-orig-width=\"1407\"><img src=\"/media/11f0d8c5fd35fbb217511a918f4176ac1cb0a3cf_f074627d122a.png\" data-orig-height=\"699\" data-orig-width=\"1407\"/></figure><p>And that\u2019s it! You\u2019ll be able to enjoy your favorite blogs and posts without any pesky ads getting in the way.</p><p>That\u2019s all for now, Tumblr. Back to your blorbos.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I browsed the notes for this a bit and saw many people tag-commentating that they\u2019d never pay for this since it is trivially easy to adblock.</p><p>If you feel this way \u2013 please reconsider your outlook.</p><p>It takes money to store your blog and the blogs of the people you enjoy reading. Tumblr has to get this money from somewhere for its blogs to continue existing. Tumblr is a service that happens to exist in a universe where it is weird to pay social networks directly, and so companies like Tumblr have to do a weird convoluted money-and-attention juggling thing where various entities that are not Tumblr try to sell you things you probably don\u2019t want.<b> This makes Tumblr have priorities that are closer to\u00a0\u201chelp these people sell to you\u201d than to\u00a0\u201cmake the users have a good time so they keep paying\u201d.</b></p><p>We have good cultural reasons to be reflexively hostile to Tumblr\u2019s decisions. But the one they\u2019re making here where they\u2019re trying to tunnel through to the nicer universe where <i>social networks make money by providing value to users</i> is not one that deserves your anger.</p><p>I\u2019m not saying you should pay Tumblr! It is indeed easy to get what they are selling by downloading a few extensions. And even if it weren\u2019t, you shouldn\u2019t pay for things you don\u2019t value. But please don\u2019t have an incredulous\u00a0\u201cfuck you, why should I?\u201d reaction to a company (that makes a product that benefits you) trying to make money in the most direct, honest way they can.</p><p><b>This attitude prolongs our stay in the ad timeline.</b></p></blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/11f0d8c5fd35fbb217511a918f4176ac1cb0a3cf_f074627d122a.png", "thumbnail_width": 640, "thumbnail_height": 318}