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Advertisement is a cancer. It is time we forbid it instead of making it fund every website in existence.
by Iv 7y ago
Advertisement is a cancer. It is time we forbid it instead of making it fund every website in existence.
- kanokun 7y agoIt will end only when there is a viable alternative and as of now there is none.
- Iv 7y agoThere will be a viable alternative the day advertisement is gone. There will be thousands of startups rushing to fill the gap.
- mishu2 7y agoWhat about all the projects being posted lately (quid, Mozilla with scroll, brave Browser, etc)? I think the friction of getting started, both as creator and as contributor is still too high. I created a proof of concept site about this as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20448087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20448087), but I don't think that's an ideal solution either, just maybe a little easier to get started. Any feedback is welcome, of course.
- dageshi 7y agoAll you have to do is pay ALL the websites you visit and it'll go away...
- Iv 7y agoI would be fine with paying them the amount they get from the advertisement they show me. Force banks to accept micro-payments (In 2019, for God's sake! That's not rocket science! That's a database transaction!) and I'd be fine with it.
- perl4ever 7y agoIs there any way to search the internet except for all the advertising supported sites?
- BubRoss 7y agoOr you could spend $65 on a raspberry pi and install pi-hole. Then a huge amount of advertising and tracking never gets accessed and everything goes faster. This is a little more pragmatic then expecting all advertising to go away.