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This is a step in the right direction but falls short of being the right direction. An ad blocker built into a major browser and turned on by default should lon
by joesmo 11y ago
This is a step in the right direction but falls short of being the right direction. An ad blocker built into a major browser and turned on by default should long ago have been available.
This will hopefully push websites, especially news websites, to figure out some other monetization strategy, one that's not based on ads and therefore doesn't undermine the credibility of the news and the site.
So it's a win for consumers as no one wants to see ads as well as hopefully taking consumers closer to ad free, unbiased news sources.
- alogray 11y agoThe next obvious target for monetization by news organizations are sponsored articles. I've started to see them in certain San Francisco specific news websites. It's not exactly the sort of thing we want to push these sites toward.
- kibwen 11y agoPress releases masquerading as news have been a tradition since time immemorial: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- jay_kyburz 11y agoA fools errand. The only news sources that can ever be trusted are publicly funded organisations like Australias ABC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corpora...