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The main sources of financing of the internet are ads then you have adblockers. The only path for traditional media to survive is go digital then you have a byp

The main sources of financing of the internet are ads then you have adblockers. The only path for traditional media to survive is go digital then you have a bypass. How are they going to have any chance?

AniseAbyss 6y ago
Life is unfair isn't it? I just drank non fair trade coffee and I feel fine.
- jslakro 6y ago
  Happiness requires confidence - Seneca
- eastendguy 6y ago
  Stealing is more than just "unfair".
  - cmeacham98 6y ago
    Blocking ads is not "stealing", similar to how changing/muting a radio station or TV channel to avoid ads is not "stealing". Sending me an ad along with my article and crying when I don't display it to myself doesn't mean I've done anything wrong. If you want to be in a position where users need to display ads to use your content, then you need to form that legal agreement with your users. You can't not do that and then pretend like I have agreed to view the ads.
harshitaneja 6y ago
Exactly. A lot of us here talk about the increasing tracking and everything being ad financed. But when companies try for alternative sources to fund themselves we have people here complain about paywall.
- alyandon 6y ago
  I'm not going to personally install this and I'd pay publishers for their content. What I won't do is sign up for an expensive yearly subscription that is generally made difficult to cancel just so I can read a handful of articles a year. Newspapers really need to offer a payment option that allows me to purchase access to a given amount of individual articles or purchase access to the entire site for a given published date just as if I'd paid for a printed copy and that access needs to be permanent.
  - jslakro 6y ago
    You expose valid concerns and go beyond proposing possible solutions. There is probably a more complicated issue here, about difference between media agencies, and authors as content creators. At least, what you do is the positive and creative way to approach the problem. Probably a browser extension is not going to ruin the industry but is perpetuating that wrong mindset about how everything in internet must be free. A publishing model close to the vision you refer is the magazine subscription. Once we talk about the newspapers model, solutions turn into a challenge.
cercatrova 6y ago
This is simply not my problem. When companies can exploit people, people should be able to exploit them back.
krageon 6y ago
A. I don't care B. I pay for things that are actually good. With news it's mostly network effects, which is worth circumventing but not worth losing money over.

AniseAbyss 6y ago

Life is unfair isn't it? I just drank non fair trade coffee and I feel fine.

jslakro 6y ago
Happiness requires confidence - Seneca
eastendguy 6y ago
Stealing is more than just "unfair".
- cmeacham98 6y ago
  Blocking ads is not "stealing", similar to how changing/muting a radio station or TV channel to avoid ads is not "stealing". Sending me an ad along with my article and crying when I don't display it to myself doesn't mean I've done anything wrong. If you want to be in a position where users need to display ads to use your content, then you need to form that legal agreement with your users. You can't not do that and then pretend like I have agreed to view the ads.

harshitaneja 6y ago

Exactly. A lot of us here talk about the increasing tracking and everything being ad financed. But when companies try for alternative sources to fund themselves we have people here complain about paywall.

alyandon 6y ago
I'm not going to personally install this and I'd pay publishers for their content. What I won't do is sign up for an expensive yearly subscription that is generally made difficult to cancel just so I can read a handful of articles a year. Newspapers really need to offer a payment option that allows me to purchase access to a given amount of individual articles or purchase access to the entire site for a given published date just as if I'd paid for a printed copy and that access needs to be permanent.
- jslakro 6y ago
  You expose valid concerns and go beyond proposing possible solutions. There is probably a more complicated issue here, about difference between media agencies, and authors as content creators. At least, what you do is the positive and creative way to approach the problem. Probably a browser extension is not going to ruin the industry but is perpetuating that wrong mindset about how everything in internet must be free. A publishing model close to the vision you refer is the magazine subscription. Once we talk about the newspapers model, solutions turn into a challenge.

cercatrova 6y ago

This is simply not my problem. When companies can exploit people, people should be able to exploit them back.

krageon 6y ago

A. I don't care B. I pay for things that are actually good. With news it's mostly network effects, which is worth circumventing but not worth losing money over.