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I'll admit this is funny, but.... I'm always curious what people are against ads would like the web to be. Paywalls everywhere? Micropayments?

badsectoracula 8y ago
The cat who left the bag is probably dead by now, but i'd like most of the commercial aspect of the web to simply go away with the exception of paid services that i actually seek myself (e.g. i'm fine with the web allowing me to go to an eshop or egrocery to buy stuff, to a hosting provider to rent a server, to a game developer/publisher to buy games, etc). I'd also be fine with buying "magazines" in the form of ebooks (no annoying DRM though), be it per-issue or a subscription, assuming of course the content quality is better than what people would put out for free on their own time (but TBH i expect people would put out quality content for free anyway). I know some would say that this has been tried and it doesn't work, but this isn't really the case because it hasn't been tried in an Internet without alternatives so we don't really know how it'd pan out. I do not expect any of this to ever happen.
- robbrown451 8y ago
  Yeah well I guess I'm not too excited about ideas which expect elimination of alternatives.
Endy 8y ago
No, the Web I want is a free and open sharing of ideas and passion projects without all the added nonsense. It's fine if corporations have a limited presence, but frankly speaking, I believe we need to go back to Web 1.0. I'd have no problem with allowing non-Web walled-garden commercial services like Prodigy or AOL used to be. If you want to pay to be part of that (social) ecosystem, that's fine and you do you. For me, I want to be part of a free society of mutual benefit.
ubernostrum 8y ago
I run an ad blocker as a matter of security. Ad networks are routinely compromised and used to distribute malware, or else just don't bother filtering what "ads" they accept and end up distributing malware. I'm curious why you think I should accept that as a cost of browsing the web.
adrianN 8y ago
Fairly similar to what the web was before commercial interests injected megabytes of crap into every website: Mostly collections of personal websites run by private people talking about stuff they're interested in without expecting anything in return.

badsectoracula 8y ago

The cat who left the bag is probably dead by now, but i'd like most of the commercial aspect of the web to simply go away with the exception of paid services that i actually seek myself (e.g. i'm fine with the web allowing me to go to an eshop or egrocery to buy stuff, to a hosting provider to rent a server, to a game developer/publisher to buy games, etc). I'd also be fine with buying "magazines" in the form of ebooks (no annoying DRM though), be it per-issue or a subscription, assuming of course the content quality is better than what people would put out for free on their own time (but TBH i expect people would put out quality content for free anyway). I know some would say that this has been tried and it doesn't work, but this isn't really the case because it hasn't been tried in an Internet without alternatives so we don't really know how it'd pan out. I do not expect any of this to ever happen.

robbrown451 8y ago
Yeah well I guess I'm not too excited about ideas which expect elimination of alternatives.

Endy 8y ago

No, the Web I want is a free and open sharing of ideas and passion projects without all the added nonsense. It's fine if corporations have a limited presence, but frankly speaking, I believe we need to go back to Web 1.0. I'd have no problem with allowing non-Web walled-garden commercial services like Prodigy or AOL used to be. If you want to pay to be part of that (social) ecosystem, that's fine and you do you. For me, I want to be part of a free society of mutual benefit.

ubernostrum 8y ago

I run an ad blocker as a matter of security. Ad networks are routinely compromised and used to distribute malware, or else just don't bother filtering what "ads" they accept and end up distributing malware. I'm curious why you think I should accept that as a cost of browsing the web.

adrianN 8y ago

Fairly similar to what the web was before commercial interests injected megabytes of crap into every website: Mostly collections of personal websites run by private people talking about stuff they're interested in without expecting anything in return.