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  • 4
    blocking ads at dns level
  • 3
    we all have preferences,and the right to choose what we want to see,thats the #trueWeb@vinerz
  • 0
    @vinerz People that use adblocks don't care. I once complained About it with a friend, he Said "I won't see ads for amateur content [About YouTube]".
    I feel sad for those people. one day every site will have 10 limit News a month and bill $1 if you want free acess.
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    When everything we have on The internet become paid because no one sees ads we'll see... I won't, as a developer, do everything free with no ads and hope that some good samaritan donates a dolar once in a while. If they don't want companies spending money with advertising they see for free, better have The money to pay for every content they want online. Torrenting might take the same path...
  • 1
    A business model is dying. Don't try to get it staying alive longer than it should. Use your energy to find other ways to get money for your work.

    I use adblock because otherwise the web is not sanely browsable and I don't really care if people don't get their salary because of me. Don't blame me, the reason why you care is that you may get money out of it, otherwise you would vote for sanity.

    Fuck to ads, it's brain hacking. I feel proud of protecting my brain from that as much as I can.
  • 1
    All those who advocate adblocks have never done side projects to earn some extra bucks....

    Ads are the reason you have sites where you don't pay and consumer content....

    Google, Facebook or any other big company you look at (including Amazon which is etailer) relies on advertisements...
  • 1
    @BuggyBrain I don't agree. It's like saying that music piracy will kill music industry. It's not working that way.

    People started building Web Apps BEFORE advertising revenue existed.
    And open source community has grown crazy big without the need for advertising revenue.

    Fuck ads.
    Fuck ads.
    Good for you if you can get money from there, but you better look for other ways of being rewarded for your job, this way is dying and will soon by stuff from the past. Better forget about it.
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    This is fundamentaly a problem that was brought upon us by the fast commercialization of the Web. Seeing ads doesn't make the content free. You pay with your privacy and with the quality of the content you receive in some cases. As a developer I've used them to monetize side-projects but honestly they never managed to make a difference in terms of revenue. The future I think is in bitcoin micro-payments for http requests (see 21.co) and in creating a culture where people pay for the content they like.
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