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Yep, agreed. When is someone going to port Adblock Plus over to the offline world?

• brandnewlow 17y ago
  What if you set up an intermediate magazine service? People subscribe to magazines through you, paying a hefty premium. They get their magazines with all the ads town out of them a day later than usual.
  • jfornear 17y ago
    I doubt that model would hold considering the fact that ad-blockers are too cheap to subscribe to a service like that, but why not just pay the magazine a little more in subscription fees? The aura of anti-advertising among the tech crowd is somewhat sad. The ads are on consumers' side in terms of keeping the price of content down. That being said, I too use Adblock. :) Advertisers need to bring the annoyance level down a notch (especially with those automatic-popout-video-player-banner-deals-with-broken-mute-buttons).
    • winanga 17y ago
      Stupid question - does HN have ads? I've never looked at it without Adblock!
      • jfornear 17y ago
        Nope. I don't think pg cares about generating any kind of financial gain from HN aside from leads to successful YC companies.
• rythie 17y ago
  To me the big problem with ads on the web is that they move (or even popup/over) when you are reading text so I use Adblock. Ads in print don't move so there is no problem IMHO.