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"There’s an emerging movement in the online ad industry to use sites that don’t track you. We collaborated with our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundatio
by quuquuquu 9y ago
"There’s an emerging movement in the online ad industry to use sites that don’t track you. We collaborated with our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation to make exceptions for ads on these sites. So in the rare event you see an ad while using AdNauseam, cherish it as it is probably being served by one of the good guys.”
EHHHHHH i mean i'd like to agree 99% of the time with this, but since were being moralist and absolutist here....
why not just have absolutely no loopholes, and let the "good guys" do HTML text ads, or just a good ol image file?
- corobo 9y agoI hate the idea of AdNauseam clicking ads, like another thread says the big ad-covered sites will have the resources to protect against this. This just punishes the random bloggers who have slapped adsense on their site. Allowing loopholes though - Isn't that how Adblock Plus first introduced their pay to win system? My bet would be these guys are going to start taking payments for whitelisting.
- quuquuquu 9y agoI am absolutely inclined to agree and will never forgive Adblock Plus for such a busted and hypocritical business model! Fortunately for us, we have uBlock, which is open source and is also the basis for AdNauseum. If it really is futile to spam the spammers, then small blogs indeed will be the sole losers here. What is worse though, is that the internet is already a terrible place in aggregate for intelligent content to make money. It's basically given away for free, or sold to very specific buyers (usually people who are purchasing consulting or are hiring smart people for full time). So, not many people make ad money off of high quality content, for two reasons: too much bad content is drowning them out, and too much good content being given away for free