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It's never been your responsibility to run that code. If it had never been allowed, ad-tech would have found another way. They built an industry on a horrible a
by jasonkostempski 9y ago
It's never been your responsibility to run that code. If it had never been allowed, ad-tech would have found another way. They built an industry on a horrible assumption and now it's their job to fix it. Everyone can still fall back to affiliate links if they want, but I doubt most will any time soon.
- Globz 9y agoThis! It their job to fix this mess, the burden of finding a better alternative doesn't lie with us. I have no once of guilt related to blocking ads, if you can't pay the upkeep of your website and you haven't found any meaningful way for user contributions then that's on you and if you still serve ads because that's the only sane solution for your monetary problem then you should expect some users to block those ads and conclude that both parties did what they thought was best given this horrible situation. Affiliate links are great and more people should really consider going back to this model.
- chii 9y agolet me play the devil's advocate and argue that ad supported content is responsible for somee of the biggest chunk of the internet, and if it hadn't been for such business model, the internet would not have been as amazing as it is today. sites like 9gag, 4chan or Reddit, or other such sites is where net culture breed. these sites are not going to have the same feel if it had been subscription supported, as large swarves of users who have no money to contribute, but have content and creativity would've been locked out.
- bitwize 9y ago"Your contract with the network is, you're going to watch the spots."