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Re:Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup by tutuca on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @12:37PM (#10939807)
Rio stripped street ads because of visual pollution [1]. Quito and some other cities in Ecuador did the same.

It didn't impact the economy negatively. It makes the city way more pleasant to walk around.

This is specially annoying in "newspaper" sites, where content should be king (I mean, guys, you are already ton of money selling your printed version) and you are welcomed with a full page ad that is not related to the content nor my interests.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/clean-rio-stripping...

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Re:Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup by mschuster91 on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:25PM (#10940166)
> I mean, guys, you are already ton of money selling your printed version

Not at all. Printed paper is definitely on the decline - just compare what's easier to do e.g. at a train or while drinking your morning coffee: holding a huge-ass 1 m² newspaper while the train is shaking and the crowd makes it impossible to stretch your arm, or, holding a notebook/tablet/phablet to read.

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Re:Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup by cowpewter on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:32PM (#10940231)
Newspapers don't really make money selling their printed versions. That's why the printed version is full of ads in the first place. Advertisers pay for printed newspapers to exist.
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