How is this different from paying for an adblocker? There is lots of good free ones.
I pay publishers I like for their content (buying newspapers, subscriptions, etc) and I don't get why Google should be the middleman in this.
Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
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Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#52Hmmm - the service sounds a little bit like Flattr, the logo looks quite a bit like Flattr - now what?
Yeah, this is totally Flattr. Except for the even-split concept.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#53Maybe if Google went with "Pay us $10 per month for us not to show you any AdSense anywhere on the web", this would be successful. In this form, I highly doubt it.
Sounds a bit like good 'ol protection money, though ("You don't want some malware on your pc, do you?"[0]). A business classic but not exactly what you'd want from a tech company.
[0] http://www.businessinsider.de/android-malware-spreads-using-...
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#54I'm not sure how much value I derive from ad-funded websites, besides maybe Google Search. There was a time most websites were free and run for the good of the community, not for profit and not as a full-time job. I could buy my high-quality content in the form of magazines and newspapers. Maybe that's the paradigm worth investigating - community generated, ad-free content on the web but paid-for, bundled (magazine-style) high quality content for sale. Delivered not through the browser but through some other, open platform (think zines, PDFs, epub/mobi).
For me, this is what an ideal web would look like. My ad-blocker would barely get a workout, and I'd happily pay for bundled (not pay-walled, bundled, downloadable) content as I did for many years with magazines.
No-one wants high quality content to disappear, but advertising and web paywalls are not the only options.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#55Maybe if Google went with "Pay us $10 per month for us not to show you any AdSense anywhere on the web", this would be successful. In this form, I highly doubt it.
Sounds a bit like good 'ol protection money, though ("You don't want some malware on your pc, do you?"[0]). A business classic but not exactly what you'd want from a tech company. [0] http://www.businessinsider.de/android-malware-spreads-using-...
Huh? Do participating sites need to pay to be included? How is this protection money?
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#56I already have an ad removal pass, it's called uBlock origin.
and other background-script-blocking addons too
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds a bit like good 'ol protection money, though ("You don't want some malware on your pc, do you?"[0]). A business classic but not exactly what you'd want from a tech company. [0] http://www.businessinsider.de/android-malware-spreads-using-...
Huh? Do participating sites need to pay to be included? How is this protection money?
This is protection money from the user's POV. Protection against malware delivered to user through ads. Particular site that displays the ads is utterly irrelevant here.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds a bit like good 'ol protection money, though ("You don't want some malware on your pc, do you?"[0]). A business classic but not exactly what you'd want from a tech company. [0] http://www.businessinsider.de/android-malware-spreads-using-...
Huh? Do participating sites need to pay to be included? How is this protection money?
My comment, as TeMPOraL points out, was looking at it from the user's perspective and it was a little tongue in cheek. However, google certainly is aware that its AdSense service has been used to spread malware (see my link above)
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#59This is ancient? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637365
This appears to be a new iteration. According to this Android Police post [1], Contributor was discontinued in late 2016, with Google saying that an improved version would become available in "early 2017."
[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/06/01/google-launches-fund...
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#60Wow, how much does this have to do with their announcement to add ad blocking to Chrome (only for other networks ads, I'm sure)? How have they not attracted regulator action yet? You'd think the EU would be all over that kind of behaviour.
Which announcement are you talking about?
I believe it might this one about Chrome support for the Better Ads Standards [1]
[1] https://blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-better-w...