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Ditch ad-based business model & build a better web, says inventor of Pop-Up Ads

• bradknowles 10y ago
  > Advertising is the original sin of the web. I like that quote. I'm going to remember that.
  • omarchowdhury 10y ago
    Intrusive, fraudulent advertising is the original sin of the web.
• crispytx 10y ago
  "Investor Storytime"... I love it!
• Safety1stClyde 10y ago
  If Maciej Ceglowski's non-advertising business model is so profitable, why does he need to set up begging campaigns like this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-wor... He claims he is making a lot of money from his ad-free website, and yet he cannot afford to pay for his holidays by himself.
  • idlewords 10y ago
    You can both be profitable and set up "begging campaigns". I've never made a secret of Pinboard revenue.