> Question for HN: What will happen to the web when uBlock Origin becomes prevelent enough? Currently the vast majority of the internet is completely (or mostly

> Question for HN: What will happen to the web when uBlock Origin becomes prevelent enough? Currently the vast majority of the internet is completely (or mostly) ad funded Maybe clickbait will die out. Which is what the ads are paying for, supporting the shittiest side of the internet. I say, good riddance. If they can stop tracking me that would be great, I am already not blocking image links, which is what an advertisement should be, so the door is in fact wide open and the ball is in their court. Newspapers could have just continued their old ad model, but nooooo they had to buy into the spammy tracking 5MB javascript bullshit, what a shame because that shit gets blocked. I feel absolutely zero responsibility to the parties that shit all over the web, and those who went into business with them. They just took whatever they wanted and shoved tracking and ads in my face, as if it somehow paid for what was clearly already there, there was no agreement, no consent for exchanging X for my privacy and attention, nothing. Just pure greed and pollution. So yeah, I really do hope that it's going to be incredibly difficult for anybody who thinks it's okay to make money off of people this way. Which also includes all those people who complain it's too much work to use something slightly more ethical than Google Analytics, they can drown in their own mess. Nobody asked "what will happen to the web when we shit ads and trackers all over it".