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I love the having the option of paying for a service I use heavily (like YouTube) while having infrequent content (blogs, newspapers) ad-supported. Not sure ho

• pelasaco 5y ago
  Exactly. But unfortunately, that's how we learned to use the internet: Leech everything for free if possible.
• Mordisquitos 5y ago
  The kind of person who methodically blocks ads (such as myself) overlaps strongly with the kind of person who, if they couldn't block the ads, would intentionally avoid or boycott the product being advertised out of shear spite, so it's no real loss to the advertiser. I suspect that if advertisements were to be made absolutely unblockable, the amount offered per ad view would probably decrease proportionally and creators would keep roughly the same income as now.
• pbasista 5y ago
  > Not sure how people imagine production costs can be covered without ads?! It is the producers' job to figure this out and find ethical ways to finance their work. If they make a decision of having ads on their content, they must be prepared to face the consequences. One of them might be that for many people ads in any form are unacceptable.
  • nickpp 5y ago
    You've never lost a product or service you really liked or relied on because it went out of business, have you?
    • Dah00n 5y ago
      I did. Allofmp3.com.