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I wish I could upvote this a 1000 times. As most of the commentators do not care about the business model of publishers, publishers should actively fight back a

• linker3000 13y ago
  Imagine if every time someone went to buy a newspaper or magazine they had to sign a contract confirming that they will read every advert and not flip over pages containing adverts, and if they refused to sign they would not be allowed to buy the publication. Likewise with televisions - a contract confirming no channel hopping during ads or the most favourite channels will be disabled remotely. Publishers should engage with their audience to find out what advertising would work and engage with the advertisers to make them comply.
  • radmuzom 13y ago
    Given that you have used the newspaper analogy, flipping over is not same as blocking ads - most of the time I do not even care to look at what Google shows me as ads as part of search results - that is the equivalent of flipping over. Blocking ads is akin to asking a guy to cut out the ads before the newspaper is delivered to you.
• serge2k 13y ago
  I'm fine with that, then those sites can die. Then those publishers can die. Then the world will end up a better place.
  • radmuzom 13y ago
    Your comments are hypocritical - you are ok to allow companies with big budgets (e.g. Google) to pay off the makers of Ad Blocking software and continue to pay for these big budgets, while you are not ready to view a couple of ads on a small publisher's page who may have put hours to create their content.