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by jacobgreenleaf 4414 days ago
Then again, maybe the alternative methods of funding won't emerge and AdBlock will destroy the web as we know it.
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mike-cardwell 4414 days ago
The web is already full of stuff that is free and is not ad-funded. There are already many services that have free versions with paid advanced versions.

If everyone used ad-block, it would change the web. In some ways for the better, in some ways for the worse. It wouldn't destroy it.

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pjc50 4414 days ago
Fine, we'll go back to the 1996 internet with far fewer ads.

I note HN seems to be doing just fine without them.

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Sae5waip 4413 days ago
HN is a YC marketing tool, it pays for itself quite easily.
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zo1 4413 days ago
Well there is one option for funding websites. I'm sure ingenious people will come up with dozens more. Instead of how it is now where they are forced to squander their creativity making sites that are ad-funded.

Not all of the web is ad-funded, and it's just a matter of us giving that part of the web a chance.

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