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Re:Ad Blockers and the Nuisance at the Heart of the Modern Web by wldcordeiro on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:08PM (#10088881)
Adblock Plus tried to address this but was given a ton of grief for it. I thought the idea of having an acceptable ads filter was smart.
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Re:Ad Blockers and the Nuisance at the Heart of the Modern Web by fred2133 on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:33PM (#10089019)
Maybe "display this resource text-only" rather than "hide this resource" would be a reasonable compromise.

An acceptable ads standard, in other words.

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Re:Ad Blockers and the Nuisance at the Heart of the Modern Web by psadri on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @07:06PM (#10089141)
Adblock could be off by default and if enough people 'vote' a site as bad by activating it for that site, then it will become 'on' by default.
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Re:Ad Blockers and the Nuisance at the Heart of the Modern Web by mc808 on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @08:20PM (#10089372)
And the whole thing can be funded by selling lists of users who did/didn't disable the ads in cluster X, Y, Z...
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