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by randomflavor 4521 days ago
So you adblockers who think the internet should go back to 1994, never use Google? I think the article is spot on. Advertising does and has always supported media distribution technologies since we had media distribution. Today that technology is the web and mobile web, and it is a distributed technology. Either micropaymetns with a bitcoin like tech will be embedded in the browser for you to be ad free, or view ads will be a future choice. Dodging the means people use to generate revenue - is just naive.
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fotbr 4521 days ago
With the way Google has been acting over the last, oh, 5 years or so? Yeah, I try to avoid google for the most part.

I'm firmly in the camp of "You (the server) provide the content. I (my computer) decide which pieces of that content to display. You get no say in what my computer does or does not do." So yes, I block ads. I block javascript. I block flash. I override your CSS. I pick and choose which elements to display. I'm perfectly fine with doing without your content if you make it too inconvenient, because 99% of the time, I don't really need that content anyway, and the other 1%, well, the same content can be found elsewhere.

The the thing that younger people do not understand: I've lived in a pre-internet, pre-cellphone, and for the most part, a pre-personal-computer, world. I know what it's like. I know it's not the end of the world to go back to that. As a result, there's a lot of stuff I'm not willing to put up with.

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cico71 4521 days ago
This. Anyway, we are not the target of these messages to legitimize the status quo of the ads business (or, even worse, that want to expand the influence on regulatory matters). We are too old, well past the point where ads may have had a significant impact on our choices, and where media could change radically our point of view. In other words, we are irrelevant to them and we can continue happily blocking everything, but younger people needs to be brainwashed to keep the current model and to mold the internet into its final form.
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samastur 4521 days ago
No, there's a big assumption that those of us who use ad blockers would miss things that are now delivered "free with ads". That may be true for a lot of people, but it isn't for every one of us.
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