March 10, 2010
Free Things You Don't Like
We don’t deserve anything. Publishers can do whatever they want. If you don’t like it, don’t send them nasty emails or browse their sites with ad-blockers: just don’t support them.
Marco's sentiment applies to all-things-free; professional web content, blogs, media, web applications, services, products. If it's free, and you don't like it, you have an amazing opportunity to not accept it, consume it, read it, use it, click it. Your angry communication is unnecessary, whether in an email or in a comment thread.
Move on. Click away from the page and don't return if you don't like the free, educated opinion. Delete your account if you don't like the way a video is presented. Never return to that ugly web app that doesn't cost you a dime. Just don't spout off at-or-about the people that are giving you something for nothing.
