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Originally Posted by abishur
I kinda draw the line in the "at what point have I viewed $25 worth of ads on this device?" See I paid less with the agreement that I'd live with their ads, but if they expect me to have shelled out almost a hundred dollars to look at ads for however long I keep this device (5 years?) I think that's unreasonable, I end up viewing WAY more than 25 dollars worth of ads. Alternatively, if the kindle was a subscription service and I agreed to have ads to get a lower price on the subscription then I'd also agree that it would be immoral to remove the ads as I am getting a continual lower price on a monthly, or yearly, fee. But this isn't the case. So for me at the very least, I kept the ads on for a couple months and then removed them.
At the same time, I also think I would have been more willing to continue with the ads if they had made them more relevant. The items they were listing were usually extremely expensive items that I couldn't afford in the first place. So no one was benefiting from those ads 
Regardless, it's pretty pointless to come into a thread and try to claim the superior morality when the entire purpose of the thread is to tell people who fundamentally disagree with you on the morality of the issue how to disable the ads :P |
You had the option of not purchasing the device if that's your thought process. You're rationalising your behaviour after the fact. It doesn't work that way.