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On the one hand, I agree with your sentiment in general. However, it's a double edged sword here. LOTS of people are so sick of advertising networks, tracking,
by zeta0134 9y ago
On the one hand, I agree with your sentiment in general. However, it's a double edged sword here. LOTS of people are so sick of advertising networks, tracking, privacy invasion and malware from compromised ad networks that the underlying issue, the idea that click and impression based advertising is fundamentally flawed, is something that people are going to continue to protest. If the system is so broken that it's susceptible to this kind of click-jacking, then it was never a really good system to begin with.
Do I think this is the right way to go about it? Probably not. But I do think the long term solution needs to be for publishers to move away from the third-party advertising banner model. While forcing your hand isn't the right way to do things (and will, you're right, cause more harm than good) if nothing else AdNauseum has sparked a much needed conversation about ad-based revenue, one that we as a publishing and content consuming internet community desperately NEED to have. Because content isn't free, and publishers SHOULD be compensated for their work. We need to develop a better system to take the place of the obviously flawed model we've come to rely on, so that everyone comes out on top, publishers included.
- eropple 9y agoMy understanding--and I pretty much hang out in the virtual duck blind studying vile people as a hobby, this isn't second-hand--is that this is largely being pushed by the 4chan/alt-right/white-supremacist crowd that's mostly mad at Google for not partying down with them. (People in the comments are referring to 4chan's /g/ board in that thread.) You are right that we need to figure out how to evolve advertising--which is never going away--to a better place, but reactionary destruction does not seem like fertile ground for "y'know, ads kind of suck, how do we make this work better for everyone?".
- hbbio 9y agoHow come? The originator of AdNauseum is https://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/ https://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/
- eropple 9y agoI didn't say that the writer of AdNauseam was of that crowd, but the folks pushing it sure are.
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- daodedickinson 9y agoOnly some of them are. There is a very broadly diverse resistance to Google's influence on terran politics.
- JohnTHaller 9y agoThose people are free not to visit our website. Or even to block all ads if the site gracefully allows it (most do, mine do).
- davidgerard 9y ago> Those people are free not to visit our website. If you meant that, you'd have a paywall up. Do you offer legally enforceable indemnity against people getting malware from ads you serve? If not, then you can't really tell them not to block the ads.
- chii 9y agoEven though i hate advertising, I'm against weaponizing clicks on ads to punish sites. Boycott, or block ads.
- SeanMacConMara 9y ago"publishers SHOULD be compensated for their work" with respect... _employees_ should be paid for their work _businesses_ OTOH are not entitled to ANY income regardless of the cost to create their products or anyones opinion on how valuable those products are.