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Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide by pavel_lishin on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:35PM (#13563068)
> Most of the comments here talk about how terrible advertising is.

Most seem to be complaining about malware.

> is there a space for good ads, which benefit both the user and the advertiser?

Probably, but how are you going to convince me that your special snowflake ad network is the one that's guaranteed to be malware free?

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Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide by acdha on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:02PM (#13563281)
I think the future is self-hosting: if nytimes.com got the search de-ranking and DNS blacklisting for hosting malware you can bet the advertisements would get way more scrutiny.
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Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide by davidgerard on Saturday February 04, 2017 @11:09AM (#13567419)
There are actually-good (-so-far) networks like Project Wonderful, but they're pretty small-time and don't pay very well compared to more crapware-saturated ad networks.
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