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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker
Advertisements have been an important revenue source for the publishing industry for over 100 years, and I'm actually in favour of allowing ads that don't have the tracking and such that most do; at its most basic this could just be an <img src="/ad.png">.
It's easy to just say "all ads bad", but things turn out to be a bit more nuanced once you start building products that are very hard to monetize otherwise. For example, one product I worked on a bit last year is a better recipe site with some novel ideas, but ... how do you monetize that without ads? Not so easy. I ended up shelving it and working on something else that's easier to monetize (hopefully anyway...)
There should probably be more transparency from AdBlock, but having advertisers pay some amount of money to vet their ads by AdBlock is not wholly unreasonable.
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On the one hand I understand it, but on the other hand I respect my privacy and don't trust data brokers and big IT companies, especially outside EU. Many companies engaging in online advertising have been caught illegally sharing users' personal data.