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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by srameshc on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:49AM (#10697541)
The very incentive of web advertising has incentivized creation of massive knowledge content and created platforms to do so, for example Stackoverflow. To totally disregard it will be a bad decision and it would eventually drive everyone to pay per view/create way.
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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by hackuser on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:54AM (#10697587)
> it would eventually drive everyone to ...

... a new business model. I have no problem with that.

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by srameshc on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:58AM (#10697619)
But I have a problem with that. I don't want to live in a walled garden.
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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by oldmanjay on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:15PM (#10697754)
Then you are free to subject yourself to ads. If I don't feel I owe these companies a successful business model, then I certainly don't feel I owe you successful companies using that model.
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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by srameshc on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:35PM (#10697911)
And I am. I am rooting for the existing, the new and unknown who are adding value to the internet and who are helping give voices to many in the world.
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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by Nadya on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:28PM (#10697851)
And I don't want to shop at {Insert Store Here}.

If other people's patronage is required to keep your favorite store open, that is none of their concern.

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:14PM (#10697747)
I disagree. The will to push the programming industry forward is what created SO. Web advertising is what created all the sites that scrap and repackage content from SO.
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