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> One is that ad blockers will evolve to valving systems for accepting advertising’s wheat while rejecting its chaff. Well, I guess that is essentially what Ad

> One is that ad blockers will evolve to valving systems for accepting advertising’s wheat while rejecting its chaff. Well, I guess that is essentially what Ad-Block Plus is doing. They whitelist ads that are not intrusive and make the web a reasonable place to browse, while making a little money in the meantime. I like that idea, of purifying the web of bad content.

irl_zebra 11y ago
It is a good idea, but I've had some annoying content slip through the whitelist, so usually I just turn it off. If you whitelist Reddit for example, it often displays these creepy "non-ad" ads [1] to "thank you" for not using an adblocker. I would rather there just be no ads versus non-ad ads + real ads. So I just keep the whitelist off and see no ads at all, ever. [1] https://55b8aba7dfd6c1911d2f4669ef645bd07e319f75.googledrive.com/host/0B8LRS7vgjAmhT01jNzVhUU5LUk0/img/reddit2.png https://55b8aba7dfd6c1911d2f4669ef645bd07e319f75.googledrive...