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The irony of the articles website asking to turn off adblocker :) I'm not sure what a non ad supported web would look like. I'm fairly sure my local newspaper

The irony of the articles website asking to turn off adblocker :) I'm not sure what a non ad supported web would look like. I'm fairly sure my local newspapers would collapse. They are drastically shrinking already. Seems hard to make a buck in journalism these days. we also hate "paywalls", we expect everything available for free and, the more tech savvy, are more than happy to block the ads with adblockers. While I agree that the web is warped by ads, and it's getting absolutely nuts what can be tracked about people.... What are viable models? Do we try and regulate this and see what happens? Nothing sounds too promising, other than trying to regulate advertising itself ( which also feels like a crappy tool for the problem )

matt4077 8y ago
It seems like most people are deeply cynical now, as in “all politicians are corrupt, anyway”, “journalists are corrupt/incompetent”, etc. Or, at least, that’s how they justify running every last publisher into the ground for reasons as spacious as “they are intruding on my rights by loading this unnesseray JS library”. Once all medium-sized papers are gone (i. e. soon) it will probably get worse, then downhill from there, and over the cliff beyond that. But at least we won’t have to deal with those distracting ads. Or only in the 30 minutes per day that the power is on.
- everdrive 8y ago
  Subscribe to a real, physical paper. Use the internet less. So many easy, practical solutions here.
  - matt4077 8y ago
    I hate to break it to you, but physical magazines are somewhat linked to their internet equivalent. If your local papers’ website is offline, “I’ll just by buy the physical paper” might not actually be a workable strategy, for obvious reasons. In the best possible light, you may be saying that Peoples’ willingness to pay for content will increase as that content b comes rarer and rarer. In this scenario, you are already operating on the assumption that independent publishers will further dwindle, and I’m not convinced that whereever the swee spot will be, it will anywhere close to the vibrant media landscape a civil society needs for survival.
    - everdrive 8y ago
      I suppose I'd better start writing, then.
jackewiehose 8y ago
> The irony of the articles website asking to turn off adblocker :) Are you sure? For me it looks like the message is just an example picture. At least the button "How to whitelist" isn't real for me...
julien 8y ago
>The irony of the articles website asking to turn off adblocker :) Lol, this is a picture from the message that NYTimes shows when you have an ad-blocker!

matt4077 8y ago

It seems like most people are deeply cynical now, as in “all politicians are corrupt, anyway”, “journalists are corrupt/incompetent”, etc. Or, at least, that’s how they justify running every last publisher into the ground for reasons as spacious as “they are intruding on my rights by loading this unnesseray JS library”. Once all medium-sized papers are gone (i. e. soon) it will probably get worse, then downhill from there, and over the cliff beyond that. But at least we won’t have to deal with those distracting ads. Or only in the 30 minutes per day that the power is on.

everdrive 8y ago
Subscribe to a real, physical paper. Use the internet less. So many easy, practical solutions here.
- matt4077 8y ago
  I hate to break it to you, but physical magazines are somewhat linked to their internet equivalent. If your local papers’ website is offline, “I’ll just by buy the physical paper” might not actually be a workable strategy, for obvious reasons. In the best possible light, you may be saying that Peoples’ willingness to pay for content will increase as that content b comes rarer and rarer. In this scenario, you are already operating on the assumption that independent publishers will further dwindle, and I’m not convinced that whereever the swee spot will be, it will anywhere close to the vibrant media landscape a civil society needs for survival.
  - everdrive 8y ago
    I suppose I'd better start writing, then.

jackewiehose 8y ago

> The irony of the articles website asking to turn off adblocker :) Are you sure? For me it looks like the message is just an example picture. At least the button "How to whitelist" isn't real for me...

julien 8y ago

>The irony of the articles website asking to turn off adblocker :) Lol, this is a picture from the message that NYTimes shows when you have an ad-blocker!