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Apple, do please kneecap Google's advertising as well. In fact, eradicate unwanted advertising entirely and do what you did with Music - sell a subscription so
by m0zg 5y ago
Apple, do please kneecap Google's advertising as well. In fact, eradicate unwanted advertising entirely and do what you did with Music - sell a subscription so I could browse the web without this bullshit, yet site owners would also get paid. Brave is trying to do this, but they lack the critical mass. Apple has the critical mass of basically everyone who has the money to spend, worldwide, as well as their credit card info.
- fabianhjr 5y ago> sell a subscription so I could browse the web without this bullshit You don't need any subscription, just install uBlock Origin or whatever blocker works best and if you want to provide financial support those FOSS projects mostly accept donations.
- madars 5y agoYou can't have uBlock Origin (or anything similarly powerful) on iOS as all browsers are skins for Mobile Safari. But you can install Firefox with full extension support on Android!
- opinion-is-bad 5y agoIt’s not uBlock, but I’ve found AdGuard to be very effective at blocking ads on mobile safari.
- fabianhjr 5y agoYeah, I have been using Firefox and uBlock Origin on mobile and I am amazed how other put up with the web without ad blockers
- notriddle 5y agoThat's not a sustainable solution. You should definitely do it, because ad networks are cesspools of lies, fraud, and malware, but let's not pretend that it's an answer to the question of where the money to pay for all this cool stuff comes from.
- nomdep 5y ago> You should definitely do it, because ad networks are cesspools of lies, fraud, and malware And that’s after removing the ads
- fabianhjr 5y agoIt is the cost of their attempt of centralized monopolist platforms. From the P2P Foundation: > Centralization is required to capture profit. Disintermediating platforms were ultimately reintermediated by way of capitalist investors dictating that communications systems be designed to capture profit. [..] But servers require upkeep. Operators need to finance hosting and administration. As the Internet grew beyond its relatively small early base, Internet service came to be provided by capitalist corporations, rather than public institutions, small businesses, or universities. Open, decentralized services came to be replaced by private, centralized platforms. The profit interests of the platform financiers drove anti-disintermediation. https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediation https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediatio...
- m0zg 5y agoThat's what I already do, but the fact that publishers get zero from this is not lost on me.
- etchalon 5y agoI believe you're describing Apple News+
- m0zg 5y agoMainstream news is just naked propaganda, so I'd also like an option to pay them nothing, in the unlikely event such a subscription is actually available. They aren't doing it for money anyway, and whoever is paying for what they do will just continue paying, because they need manufactured consent.
- dwaite 5y agoGoogle's primary strategy is to build a relationship with you, learn everything about you while you interact with them, and be paid to tell you about stuff they think you would be interested in while you use their services. It is when you capture information across multiple contexts without a user relationship or user consent that Apple decided they needed to step in. Google's reaction to Apple changes is to move tactically to get users to log in for more base services. Facebook's reaction has been significantly less composed.