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I really hate to see HN's general attitude towards ads. As another poster said, ads are a shitty system and its abused, but it really is the only way some peopl
by dpacmittal 9y ago
I really hate to see HN's general attitude towards ads. As another poster said, ads are a shitty system and its abused, but it really is the only way some people can provide free content.
When I started my first tech blog back in 2009, I was 18yo, living in Nepal. I had no means whatsoever to make money online but it was super easy to setup adsense account and in no time I was generating some revenue.
I agree, the ad system is broken, but this is not a solution. This tool will do nothing but harm publishers, possibly get their adsense account banned for click fraud, and eventually cause them to shut down their website.
Ad industry is huge and there ought to be better way to fix the problems than straight out blocking the ads, or tools like these which gets so much kudos on HN that it makes me sick. It is the same bunch of crowd who call themselves entrepreneurs and then they cheer for anti-entrepreneur tools like these.
The ugly fact is we don't have a better system in place than what we have now, and tools like these don't make the situation any better.