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You can use pihole or pyhole to just block them for your home, then vpn from your phone. No more ads. Then buy subscription to sites you like. Dont give googl

You can use pihole or pyhole to just block them for your home, then vpn from your phone. No more ads. Then buy subscription to sites you like. Dont give google a percentage of everything.

rtpg 9y ago
a lot of people get a percentage of everything. Credit card processors, the post office, transportation companies. ISPs, kinda. "A percentage of everything" is another way of saying "in the infrastructure business".
kelnos 9y ago
The problem is that most (all?) site subscriptions now are all-or-nothing, and even if you do like a site, you probably like several, and paying $10-$30 per month (or whatever) each for even 5 different sites starts adding up real fast. If sites were to offer an "article bank", it might be more compelling: you put in $X and that buys you Y articles, which you can read over the span of days, months, or years. But no one seems to be doing that, probably because they believe the economics of breakage is better.
- resf 9y ago
  Or just buy a games console. Articles on the internet exist primarily as free entertainment. If I am going to spend money on entertainment, there are much more fulfilling options.
  - majewsky 9y ago
    That's dismissing all the genuinely insightful articles that I discover through my subscription [1] to HN. [1] Read: Addiction. :)
    - resf 9y ago
      Perhaps read a book. Just visit your local real or virtual library. My point is not that articles on the internet are useless. But there is a certain tunnel vision in these discussions where we forget there are other _even better_ ways to spend our time. Whether you want education or entertainment, paying $x/month to Google is not the right way to achieve it. Go paintballing instead.
      - majewsky 9y ago
        Not disputing that. But reading HN is something that I can do during work while waiting on a job to complete. Reading a book is much harder because the information is not quite as bite-sized and thus harder to ingest if you have only five minutes at a time. And paintballing is a whole other level of impossible during work time. :)

You can use pihole or pyhole to just block them for your home, then vpn from your phone. No more ads. Then buy subscription to sites you like. Dont give google a percentage of everything.

rtpg 9y ago

a lot of people get a percentage of everything. Credit card processors, the post office, transportation companies. ISPs, kinda. "A percentage of everything" is another way of saying "in the infrastructure business".

kelnos 9y ago

The problem is that most (all?) site subscriptions now are all-or-nothing, and even if you do like a site, you probably like several, and paying $10-$30 per month (or whatever) each for even 5 different sites starts adding up real fast. If sites were to offer an "article bank", it might be more compelling: you put in $X and that buys you Y articles, which you can read over the span of days, months, or years. But no one seems to be doing that, probably because they believe the economics of breakage is better.

resf 9y ago
Or just buy a games console. Articles on the internet exist primarily as free entertainment. If I am going to spend money on entertainment, there are much more fulfilling options.
- majewsky 9y ago
  That's dismissing all the genuinely insightful articles that I discover through my subscription [1] to HN. [1] Read: Addiction. :)
  - resf 9y ago
    Perhaps read a book. Just visit your local real or virtual library. My point is not that articles on the internet are useless. But there is a certain tunnel vision in these discussions where we forget there are other _even better_ ways to spend our time. Whether you want education or entertainment, paying $x/month to Google is not the right way to achieve it. Go paintballing instead.
    - majewsky 9y ago
      Not disputing that. But reading HN is something that I can do during work while waiting on a job to complete. Reading a book is much harder because the information is not quite as bite-sized and thus harder to ingest if you have only five minutes at a time. And paintballing is a whole other level of impossible during work time. :)