Attack of the Ad Blockers

Re:Attack of the Ad Blockers by dredmorbius on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:51PM (#11818931)

Why pay the advertisers? Why not pay publishers directly?

Why not have a single, income-prorated content fee which is then allocated as a quality-and-utilisation pro-rated compensation to information creators?

BBC license fee, but universal and income based, on steroids.

$100/year per person would cover all Internet advertising. $500/year per person would cover all advertising period.

(And that's for major industrialised nations only -- US, EU, Japan, Canada, Australia, roughly).

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Re:Attack of the Ad Blockers by Infinitesimus on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @07:10PM (#11819032)

> If publishers would get together and come up with a single micropayment system ...

I believe this wasn't in reference to advertisers and seems rather similar to your proposal in theory. I'm unsure about the prices that will actually make sense for them to drop advertising completely though...

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Re:Attack of the Ad Blockers by Johnny555 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @07:15PM (#11819070)

My fault -- in my original post I mistakenly typed advertisers instead of publishers. I thought I fixed it quickly, but not quickly enough...

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Re:Attack of the Ad Blockers by dredmorbius on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:25PM (#11819695)

Ah, and I suppose I got in too fast.

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