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Showerthoughts
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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Use them, costs bandwidth and CPU cycles.
Yes but it will be offset by traffic boosts for advertisers
Use an adblocker. Unless, you mean people go on the internet without using protection?
They do. Either due to technical ineptitude (like approximately everyone's parents) or, and that might be worse, with the conviction of doing "the right thing," like a friend of mine.
That won't make a difference. Reddit knows how much traffic they get and they use that number to sell ads
Junk data that costs the advertisement without a return on investment
That's not how it works. Reddit is able to even get interest because of traffic counts. Same for IPO values
If you're blocking their ads and not logged in, you are costing them.