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We are in the beginning of the end of the era of online advertising.

• INTPenis 11y ago
  No, not a chance. We are in an arms race between the people and the corporations. As long as you can see content on a website, there will be corporations trying to monetize that fact. And as long as corporations have to operate within the borders of an open system there will be people trying to circumvent their methods.
  • philipov 11y ago
    An arms race like that will end with the richest corporations lobbying for an end to an open system. I'm sure we'll soon start seeing legislation attempting to criminalize ad-blocking.
    • pdkl95 11y ago
      http://boingboing.net/2016/03/02/uk-minister-compares-adblockin.html http://boingboing.net/2016/03/02/uk-minister-compares-adbloc... The UK is already moving in that direction. This is yet another battlefield in the War On General Purpose Computing; you either have the right to run whatever software you want on your computer, or someone else is the de facto owner of your computer through their ability to control what software is allowed to run. These battles need to be fought now, because it's hard to fight over property rights once someone else has already taken possession.