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how do these people convince themselves that the problem with ads is privacy and tracking? i use an ad blocker so that i _won’t see ads_.
by gulbanana 8y ago
how do these people convince themselves that the problem with ads is privacy and tracking? i use an ad blocker so that i _won’t see ads_.
- david-gpu 8y agoI would happily pay a flat $50/month for an ad-free experience where content producers got paid for each of their pages I visit.
- alyandon 8y agoWe really need some form of frictionless micropayment system that goes directly to the publishers. I would gladly pay for ad-free web content (for example, NYT and WSJ) if they made it possible for me to pay them via a consumption based model instead of trying to force me into an expensive yearly subscription.
- Proven 8y agoThat's what Brave enables (although they also "pre-collect" payments for those publishers who may not be aware of their "service" - quite scammy, so I uninstalled their browser from desktops and use it only on my phone)
- ronsor 8y agoI already pay the ISP for internet service.
- SyneRyder 8y agoGoogle already offers something like this with Google Contributor. You load a fixed amount onto your ad-free pass, select which publishers you want to browse ad-free who have opted-in, and it will deduct a small amount (typically 1 - 4c) for each webpage you view ad-free. The catch is, publishers don't seem to be signing up, presumably because they're making far more than 4c / pageview by showing ads to you. The publishers I added seem to have all abandoned the program long ago. I've been a member for over a year and have still only spent 6c. https://contributor.google.com/ https://contributor.google.com/
- scarejunba 8y agoI, too, would pay $1000 for unlimited use of any supercar I want.
- david-gpu 8y agoSnarkiness does not help. Right now publishers make zero from me because I have a couple layers of ad blockers. If I'm willing to pay X for some number of ad-free articles, which does not have to be unlimited, then publishers would be making X dollars more.
- scarejunba 8y agoYup. That's why I don't pay for HBO, so I totally get it. If they want to make it $2, at least they'd get something from me. Until then, there's always Putlocker. Their loss, really.
- david-gpu 8y agoHBO is not funded by ads. We are talking about removing ads with a micropayment of equivalent magnitude. The energy spent feeling smart would be better directed at your reading comprehension.
- darkpuma 8y agoIf you're near a city that can sustain such a business, you can in fact rent fancy cars you'd never otherwise be able to afford.