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I prefer Ad Nauseum ( https://adnauseam.io/ ) because I don't want to just block the ads I want to ruin the profile ad companies have on me by having all the ads clicked as well.
I think it's only a matter of time until adblock is legally banned. The current situation, where the vast majority of the internet relies solely on ads and an increasing number of people use adblock year over year is unsustainable. The system can support a certain number of free riders (people who consume the product but don't contribute back in ad eyeballs), but at a certain point the math will no longer work. Event…
If any ad-evasion technology was ever going to be banned legally, it would have been TiVo. The internet is far less reliant on straight ad revenue than TV shows were.
I think it's only a matter of time until adblock is legally banned. The current situation, where the vast majority of the internet relies solely on ads and an increasing number of people use adblock year over year is unsustainable. The system can support a certain number of free riders (people who consume the product but don't contribute back in ad eyeballs), but at a certain point the math will no longer work. Event…
It does block our [Wide Angle Analytics](https://wideangle.co/documentation/track-with-custom-domain) tracker about which we are open about.
And ... we are not against. Every user should have a right to self determination and control when browsing the Internet. Our tracker is not invasive. It does not spy on users across site. We do not facilitate user profiling and personalized Ads. So maybe we should be against? But we are not.
It is your browser. It is your device.
I think it's only a matter of time until adblock is legally banned. The current situation, where the vast majority of the internet relies solely on ads and an increasing number of people use adblock year over year is unsustainable. The system can support a certain number of free riders (people who consume the product but don't contribute back in ad eyeballs), but at a certain point the math will no longer work. Event…
You seem to welcome it; I think it would be a great catastrophe.
I have a dream that some day all browsers come with builtin uBlock. I wish I could install it for everybody. Browsing the Web and watching Youtube is such a different experience with adblock.
I think it's only a matter of time until adblock is legally banned. The current situation, where the vast majority of the internet relies solely on ads and an increasing number of people use adblock year over year is unsustainable. The system can support a certain number of free riders (people who consume the product but don't contribute back in ad eyeballs), but at a certain point the math will no longer work. Event…
But ads today bloat pages with so much tracking & other nonsense that it has ruined the experience. I cant stand to browse the web without an ad-blocker, it's horrific.
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Option 3, let the ad funded internet die and keep the remaining good parts.
The problem is that the most popular alternative, microtransactions, doesn't work. Turns out there is a big psychological barrier between free and literally any payment at all, even a few pennies. People are sensitive to the danger of being nickled and dimed to death. And that's before you get into the problem of how to set up a clearinghouse where you can handle microtransactions without being eaten alive by fees.
I prefer Ad Nauseum ( https://adnauseam.io/ ) because I don't want to just block the ads I want to ruin the profile ad companies have on me by having all the ads clicked as well.
I guess it's only marketers that love targeted ads...