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This is the wrong direction. What users want are unobtrusive ads and what content creators want is to get paid. Apple and Facebook are trying to take advantage
by jameslk 11y ago
This is the wrong direction. What users want are unobtrusive ads and what content creators want is to get paid. Apple and Facebook are trying to take advantage of this by pushing users to their AOL-esque walled gardens. We need a browser standard for built-in unobtrusive ads or payments so content creators can get paid and users don't get stuck with AOL 2.0.
- icebraining 11y agoWhy do we need a browser standard for built-in unobtrusive ads? We already have a standard to carry ads - it's called HTML. Adding an out-of-band ad carrying system is not only, and in my opinion, an unethical subterfuge, as it won't work against heavy-handed ad-blockers anyway: they'll just evolve to block that too.
- jameslk 11y agoThe point isn't to force ads down the user's throat, it's to show ads in a way that's uniform and tolerable, as Apple is attempting to do with Apple News. An ad blocker can be built for Apple News too (and has been) but I'd rather that not be necessary in the first place.
- sangnoir 11y agoApple is not "trying to take advantage of this" - it's an active participant! I'm sure there are several Sun Tzu quotes that can describe the unfolding proxy war.
- langarto 11y agoUsers do not want unobstrusive ads. They may be willing to put up with them, but that is not the same than wanting them. Nobody in his sane mind wants ads, unobstrusive or not.