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by Spearchucker 4192 days ago
The only ads I ever notice are for things I already have. Everybody pro advertising tells me how good ads are for me. I started using the Internet in 1991 and have yet to see how advertising is good for me. Here are some ways in which ads are bad for me:

- Increased operator bandwidth charges (REAL money)

- Loss of privacy

- Page download performance

- Garish web sites

- Lost time cleaning up after sites

- Being shown ads for products I already own

I would happily give more money than I pay my operator to content providers in exchange for no ads.

1 comments

There's always the freebie users for every media form - piracy, adblock, etc. As a supplier of such things I can only really hope you'll spread the word to those that do fill my pockets with delicious fractions of a penny and not let it bug me

The rest? Not really my problem - I wouldn't redesign a website to save you time when you're (objectively speaking) worth nothing to me - that's bad business

On paying more - You might (might, I don't believe you) but you'd be in the minority. Having a system that allows you to paypal the site a penny every few months would be infeasible anyway