Does this work on YouTube ads? If so, I'd pony up in a heartbeat...
Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
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Re: Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
#62very cool. Does this block ads on google itself?
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#63So with this system, the same amount of space is still taken up by ads? I don't think that's really a huge improvement. I think my ideal system would be something where a website can offer a bitcoin* address in a header, and at the end of the month my browser randomly picks a set of addresses it's seen, and sends money to them. (In conjunction with current ad-blocking technology.) * Bitcoin probably wouldn't work due…
Yes every site should be sending a bitcoin receiving address in the headers, or embedded in the HTML for when a single page has two areas of content from different providers.
Payout could be based on a number of factors, including existing ads on the page (downvote), number of visits (upvote), seconds of streaming video watched (upvote), etc.
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#64For the ~price of Netflix subscription, I only get 25-50% fewer ads? Nah...too expensive.
If it was any cheaper then people would believe ads have very little value which leads to thinking an ad-blocker isn't really harming anyone. I wouldn't be surprised if this product is really, at least in part, a PR move to get people to think seeing adverts is the equivalent of 'saving' $20/month for web content.
Which is interesting because of how many people mention that adds really only contribute a small fraction of that. From what I can find $1 per 1000 impressions seems to be about average for ad revenue.
That means that if I go to 1000 websites in a month I'd expect to pay about $1. I'd be interested to see how many impressions I make per month and find out how much money I actually generate for these websites.
I'd also be interested in a focused ad session to reduce the cost of my browsing. I.E. you show me products and I actually click on them to check them out, and you add money to my pool for browsing. It would have to be an opt-in scenario, but that would be an alternative to paying and seeing ads while you browse.
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#65"Contributor is not available in your country."
Well, I guess my Euros aren't good enough for content creators. Unfortunately for them, my privacy is not a currency I will use to pay for content.
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#66"Make 25% of your ads go away" feels a whole lot like the "cable TV will have less ads" promise of old. We all know how that turned out.
The outcome of this is going to be "publishers run extra ads, you pay to make the extra ads go away".
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ads aren't there purely to annoy people, they're there to support the content you'd otherwise pay for. The idea of paying them instead of getting ads is also a way to support that content.
It can also be seen as acting like the mob. "It'd be a shame if your nice clean web page suddenly got ruined with ads. You know, we can keep that from happening for a price." No thanks. I'll continue to block ads and not be tracked and have my internet load faster.
Go for it, but you're only able to have your cake and eat it too because of people who view ads. If I were you, I'd keep quiet and encourage others to view ads, otherwise content creators will have to either quit or throw up paywalls.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ads aren't there purely to annoy people, they're there to support the content you'd otherwise pay for. The idea of paying them instead of getting ads is also a way to support that content.
It can also be seen as acting like the mob. "It'd be a shame if your nice clean web page suddenly got ruined with ads. You know, we can keep that from happening for a price." No thanks. I'll continue to block ads and not be tracked and have my internet load faster.
But it's not your website. It's someone else's. Someone who created the content and pays to keep it online for you to consume.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just out of curiosity, how much are you paying per month?
$15/month. There's a sliding scale that goes in $1 increments.
Is the $15/mo use it or lose it, or just a maximum amount? IE, do all your monthly subscriptions add up to $15?
If I'm paying the same as the bidding cost for advertisers, then I'm all in, this is super sweet. If I'm paying some vague hand-wavy fee that reduces my ads, but doesn't correspond 1-1 to what advertisers are paying then forget it.
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#70This is cool, but would it work on my Android browser (which is my main point of contention with ads)?
Probably, but it might not solve the problems you have with ads, if those problems are tracking, page size, load times, or screen real estate.