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If you don't want to see ads, why not run an adblocker or avoid visiting sites that show ads? There's no good option right now, if you have a paywall people wil
by anchpop 6y ago
If you don't want to see ads, why not run an adblocker or avoid visiting sites that show ads? There's no good option right now, if you have a paywall people will complain and almost no one will visit your site, and if you have any ads at all people will complain about that too. (I remember an HN article about a guy who had a banner advertising his own product on his personal blog, absolutely no tracking, that got added to uBlock adblocking lists.)
If you want you can use duckduckgo with ads disabled in settings, visit HN and wikipedia and stackoverflow (although they have the #hireme thing), pay $10/month for youtube and spotify premium so you don't see ads there, etc. And then use ghostery to disable third-party cookies and things of that nature. What more do you want the industry to do?
- wpietri 6y agoPersonally, I want the advertising industry to not exist. Moral question of for-profit manipulation aside, I think if you look at net societal benefits versus total cost, it's pretty easy to see that we could find better things to do with the ~$1 trillion that it consumes. That day won't come any sooner just by me running an ad blocker.
- dontblink 6y agoIf this is truly what you want, then what is your suggestion for financing the existence of sites that wish to stay afloat? Paywalls don't work.
- mulmen 6y agoTo be fair in your last two comments you went from "I don't want to see ads" to "I don't want anyone to see ads." That's a pretty big philosophical difference.
- wpietri 6y agoOnly if you look at the first sentence. In the rest of my first comment, I am pretty clearly talking about the problems of the industry as a whole.