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> I'm just absolutely silly with glee that Google finally decided to jump on it. There is no "finally" here - this isn't new. Google Contributor is from 2014 [
by azakai 9y ago
> I'm just absolutely silly with glee that Google finally decided to jump on it.
There is no "finally" here - this isn't new. Google Contributor is from 2014 [1].
Google and other companies have tried this idea many times already. It's true that people like you exist, but there haven't been enough to make this viable.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
- vinceguidry 9y agoNobody cares because it's not a real solution. Making content sites buy into it means only 10% of the ads I see might get mitigated. Everybody else's solution has the same problem. It needs to be universal to be of any use to the end user. Otherwise it's only of slight use to Google, marginal use to content creators, and no use at all to consumers. That's what I'm hoping for from the new content blockers. A way to force a new order on the content world.
- Dylan16807 9y agoContributor was extremely unreliable in multiple ways. I want something that unconditionally blocks the worse kinds of ads, and that doesn't give more money to sites just because they have more inactive ad rectangles.