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"...a watered down version or just serve them up crapply encoded videos/images etc" That is actually a REALLY good idea - serve up smaller, low resolution cont
by jrabone 15y ago
"...a watered down version or just serve them up crapply encoded videos/images etc"
That is actually a REALLY good idea - serve up smaller, low resolution content and let me easily BUY the higher resolution content (as a download, not some kind of time-limited thing) via a micropayment scheme.
That sounds better than an ad-supported model to me. However, I disagree with the idea that webmasters will "win" this battle - filtering proxies will just get more prevalent, smarter and easier for the average user to install and run. All my LANs already use Privoxy and I'm toying with enforcing it via Group Policy / WPAD / PAC.
- maximusprime 15y agoI don't think micropayments will ever be a viable alternative to advertising. The internet started free. The cat is out of the bag. Most people won't pay for access to websites. The distinction between ads and content is one that is ridiculously easy to close if needed. The only reason that adblock works on a good number of adverts is that they're usually served from an external source. If you serve them from exactly the same place the content is coming from, and make no distinction between the two, then filtering becomes more problematic.