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Re:AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Pr... by CaptSpify on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:17PM (#13224719)
> Kill advertising and you'll take the content with it, because many of the content producers and curators won't waste their time for no return.

Great! I'd personally love it if they went away. If it's good content, people have definitely shown to be willing to pay for it.

"essentially all of the ad supported sites I visit are diversions" - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AdSupportedWebD...

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Re:AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Pr... by jalfresi on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:32PM (#13224859)
People have been shown to create good content for free too. I'm not convinced advertising is required.
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Re:AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Pr... by eloff on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:13PM (#13225234)
You're both right in that people make good content for free and for pay websites, but you're dead wrong if you think advertising dollars is not also a motivation. You will lose good content.
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Re:AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Pr... by CaptSpify on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @12:41AM (#13227054)
Sure we will. But, IMO, it's quite worth it.
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