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Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not?
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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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I used to give $39 every few months, but like Solomon, it became too bendable by higher powers, something I mean generally and in more ways than one, so I now advocate it just adopt ads or something.
If they adopt ads, it'll not be long before the articles themselves are influenced by who their advertisers are. Can't offend Advertiser A, so let's just delete that line in the article about them.
I think it's important that it remains ad free.
That brings me to the issue I was referring to though. It's already influenced. The advertising catch-22 isn't the only way to fall into this trap.