It simply isn't worth it as Google doesn't actually enable content creators unless you create content on their sites. We need a better way to say give content creators something akin to Patreon but easier.
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
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Any payments to avoid ads served by these companies would require compensating all of these companies I think you misunderstood how this iteration of Contributor would work; the publisher integrates Google's contributor code in such a way that if you pay them, they don't show you any ads, no need to worry about the ad ecosystem. > People want to maintain their privacy I will start believing this when people start a…
Brave isn't fully launched yet. They are still working on making extensions work via API compatibility. Once they nail extensions, I and a ton of others will switch from Chrome.
More accurately a subset of super-nerds who care about extensions and privacy will switch from Chrome.
For regular people, if Brave somehow started eating meaningful chunks of Google's market share they'd just integrate contributor into Chrome and get roughly the same effect.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#213People will likely hesitate as it comes from Google.
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Oh, come on man, the academics should would for kudos. /s
Academics are paid with tax dollars.
Assuming this is serious: actually, no. Academics are ultimately paid by a mix of university tuition fees (paid by students) and research grants (which may come from tax-funded entities, but more generally come from charities and philanthropic orgs).
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#215Nope. Trash. uBlock origin.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
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Not all quality content can be produced in spare time as a labour of love. High quality journalism, for example.
I seriously doubt ads could support production of that content either.
They're not - and that's one of the big problems facing our civic society. It's just not economically possible to write level-headed content at any real scale.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
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> The internet was built on people writing massive forums posts about completely stripping down Kawasaki motorbike engines... Yes the internet came about because of academics and hobbyists playing around in their spare time. We as people who often came up during that time have a habit of over-weighting that. The internet is not a side project anymore. The internet is the future of every industry - and absolutely the…
>You can't expect every industry to be reduced to what can be produced by hobbyists working for free in their spare time. You're implying that it's in some fashion my job to care about those industries. I don't care what happens to buzzfeed, and I don't care what happens to the wallstreet journal. /My life/ and /my needs/ and met regardless of their existence, so I really don't give a shit whether they are sustainabl…
Do you care what happens to your newspaper? Because it's not the Buzzfeeds of the world who are suffering because people like you feel entitled to free content. It's the publishers who can actually hold our institutions and leaders to account.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
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I use uBlock too - it's great. Sometimes a site will have an obnoxious popover or something that's usually relatively easy to create a rule for, but generally it works, and in combination with Ghostery I'm confident it's protecting me from most tracking, which is what I really want to avoid. However it is an ethical dilemma, especially in a World where Contributor exists. Content is not free, hosting is not free, dev…
I strongly disagree that contributors aren't providing content 'for free'. I request a stream of bytes from them, they provide a stream of bytes free of charge. Its up to me how I want to display those bytes, and I'm not stealing anything or breaking any contract by choosing not to render every single one.
They are providing content for free on the assumption that you will not block adverts. To imagine otherwise is disingenuous at best.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#219It's too expensive for consumers.
Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
#220What's the advantage for the end user of this, over an ad blocker which is a free ad removal pass?
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