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by Iv 2530 days ago
Advertisement is a cancer. It is time we forbid it instead of making it fund every website in existence.
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kanokun 2530 days ago
It will end only when there is a viable alternative and as of now there is none.
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mishu2 2529 days ago
What about all the projects being posted lately (quid, Mozilla with scroll, brave Browser, etc)?

I think the friction of getting started, both as creator and as contributor is still too high. I created a proof of concept site about this as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20448087), but I don't think that's an ideal solution either, just maybe a little easier to get started. Any feedback is welcome, of course.

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Iv 2530 days ago
There will be a viable alternative the day advertisement is gone.

There will be thousands of startups rushing to fill the gap.

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BubRoss 2529 days ago
Or you could spend $65 on a raspberry pi and install pi-hole. Then a huge amount of advertising and tracking never gets accessed and everything goes faster. This is a little more pragmatic then expecting all advertising to go away.
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dageshi 2530 days ago
All you have to do is pay ALL the websites you visit and it'll go away...
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Iv 2530 days ago
I would be fine with paying them the amount they get from the advertisement they show me.

Force banks to accept micro-payments (In 2019, for God's sake! That's not rocket science! That's a database transaction!) and I'd be fine with it.

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perl4ever 2529 days ago
Is there any way to search the internet except for all the advertising supported sites?
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