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by tentacleuno 960 days ago
> SEO, content farms and click mills are the things ruining the internet.

Right, so how do we fix it? I'm wondering if uBlacklist has a place here (a tool to block domains from search results) -- it would be interesting to see if we could all come together and contribute to a database of SEO farm / junk websites to improve search results.
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hotnfresh 960 days ago
Destroy spyvertising ads by making the business model illegal, so don't-care-where-my-ad-is-hosted ad networks die. Non-spying ads on sites that naturally draw lots of real eyeballs will still be a thing, which is fine. Actually-free sites, open source, and open protocols, would all see more interest and development in such a world, filling in most of the gaps people worry about from the death of shitty-ads.
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suoduandao3 960 days ago
My idea: Align ads to the viewer's self-actualization. I had chatgpt write me a full business plan for it a while back, shameless plug: https://eucyclos.wixsite.com/eucyclos/post/making-advertisin...
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carlosjobim 960 days ago
> Right, so how do we fix it?

By paying for content you consume, so that there will be no money in SEO, content farms and click mills.

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raisedbyninjas 960 days ago
Doesn't this just assume that ad domains are some scarce resource? Ada can be served from a GUID domain just as effectively.
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tentacleuno 960 days ago
It does not -- it follows the same concept as an adblock list, just being used for a different purpose.

As an example, EasyList includes a lot of GUID domains[0].

[0]: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/master/easylist/ea...

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