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Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by cable2600 »

sverhagen wrote: post #113
TylerE wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's easy to justify as a security measure, given the amount of malicious ads trying to serve up exploits.

Maybe they don't browse the web either, I mean... unless it's 100% justified for work...

MSDN used to be on the web and more updated than the CD-ROMS they mailed out for subscribers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/

It is the help program of Visual Studio and other apps.

Managers would check http://msn.microsoft.com/ which had their stocks in it.

I only used the web for work, nothing else. I didn't use my company email for newsgroups and website signups I used my Hotmail account instead that kept the spam there.

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by adrianN »

technion wrote: post #106
approxim8ion wrote: post #3

I can't think of too many pieces of software that have improved my life as significantly as uBlock Origin in the last decade. It's been an absolute godsend.

It's actually a substantive money saver in a shared compute environment. Running Windows RDS or VDA solutions, you can actually watch CPU and RAM reductions across the board by deploying uBlock Origin.

I wonder how much CO2 uBlock origin saved so far.

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by folli »

vikingerik wrote: post #33
abdullahkhalids wrote: post #27

> I don't want the administrative workload coming with donations. It's absolutely shameful that over three decades into the internet age, we still don't have zero friction ways of accepting, sending and accounting for money on the internet.

Bitcoin is pretty close to this, right? Anyone can publish a Bitcoin address and accept donations with no friction.

For small donations (e.g. $5) the transaction fee off Bitcoin can be larger than the amount.

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by PandawanFr »

bern4444 wrote: post #69
binwiederhier wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never used an ad blocker and have resisted installing it many times. My thinking always was: I'd rather have a web with ads than a web in which I have to pay for content and sign up to 800 different websites with 800 different accounts. A website that I've frequented a lot, the German news website spiegel.de, has converted to pay only mostly, and i now can't use it anymore. I am not saying that's the fault of…

It would be a lot easier if websites and advertisers actually worked to naturally integrate ads in a way that wasn't obtrusive. Massive banners at the top, auto playing videos, throwing off the page layout etc are all terrible ad experiences that dominate.

I think carbon ads does it particularly well. Though I’m not sure this kind of ad would work in every case.

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by Krasnol »

approxim8ion wrote: post #3

I can't think of too many pieces of software that have improved my life as significantly as uBlock Origin in the last decade. It's been an absolute godsend.

I'm honestly afraid what will happen if this project dies.

And it will die...all good digital things die one day.

We'll start again with all kinds of half broken forks and fakes....scarry..

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by johnsea »

binwiederhier wrote: post #67
approxim8ion wrote: post #3

I can't think of too many pieces of software that have improved my life as significantly as uBlock Origin in the last decade. It's been an absolute godsend.

I have never used an ad blocker and have resisted installing it many times. My thinking always was: I'd rather have a web with ads than a web in which I have to pay for content and sign up to 800 different websites with 800 different accounts. A website that I've frequented a lot, the German news website spiegel.de, has converted to pay only mostly, and i now can't use it anymore. I am not saying that's the fault of…

You could use a service like readly and pay (a little) for the content you read.

(But I must mention, your Spiegel is not covered there atm)

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by BatteryMountain »

approxim8ion wrote: post #3

I can't think of too many pieces of software that have improved my life as significantly as uBlock Origin in the last decade. It's been an absolute godsend.

uBlock + PiHole = dream team.

I was surprised to see how crappy the internet has become when I accidentally left my pihole disabled the other day. Maybe we should just reset it (the internet)? Start over with a new kind of browser without ads, extensions, no JS, no CSS etc.. just a dumb renderer. The current bloat is getting embarrassing.

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by matheusmoreira »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #108
matheusmoreira wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That premise is false. There's always money to be made by selling people's attention. They'd put ads under people's eyelids if they could. People who open up their wallets and spend money are worth even more money to advertisers. The more you pay, the more ads they want to subject you to. The only way to get rid of them is to deny them any attention at all. They are not entitled to it under any circumstances. Drive t…

The other point to be made here is that the average revenue per user for even the most successful advertising companies (e.g. Google) is less than $1/day. That's not a huge amount of money even for someone with a low income. (From a first-world perspective. Incomes are lower in other parts of the world, but so are advertising revenues from users there.) So the amount you would have to pay to deliver the same revenues…

> We need a payment system which makes transactions that small efficient. And it needs to be anonymous for the buyer, because the whole point is to get rid of the tracking, right?

Hopefully Monero will achieve this one day.

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by asiachick »

nocturnial wrote: post #80
binwiederhier wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never used an ad blocker and have resisted installing it many times. My thinking always was: I'd rather have a web with ads than a web in which I have to pay for content and sign up to 800 different websites with 800 different accounts. A website that I've frequented a lot, the German news website spiegel.de, has converted to pay only mostly, and i now can't use it anymore. I am not saying that's the fault of…

I have the opposite viewpoint about ads. I don't think we should reward a business model which relies on the premise that humans like to watch ads. I never had someone tell me to drive slower because they wanted to take a closer look at a billboard. Never had I had to rewind a video because someone missed an ad. etc... etc... Let's be honest. If someone told you to do any of the above things regularly and consistentl…

Plenty of people like watching ads. Just go to youtube and see all the ads posted. There's whole channels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUBpIWz6bPk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTcV-7Ubzpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFyruOvAnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwvmozG6-A&list=PLjHdPL8MeP...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCYe4FoMRA

I had plenty of friends that hated Football but would throw a party to watch the ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muyq2kMDFoA

Re: Why don't you accept donations?

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Post by asiachick »

baal80spam wrote: post #5
approxim8ion wrote: post #3

I can't think of too many pieces of software that have improved my life as significantly as uBlock Origin in the last decade. It's been an absolute godsend.

I agree to the point that I can't imagine using the internet without uBlock installed.

Sadly on iOS there is no ublock
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