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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by davidgerard on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:56AM (#14096474)
> It's funny how you never see the sites that whine about adblockers offer to accept legal responsibility for their complicity in the potential theft and property destruction served from their site.

yep. This is an effective way to get newspapers whining about ad blockers to shut up as well.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by Pigo on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:11AM (#14097276)
Every time I'm blocked from a news site because of my blocker, I just get context from comments and move on with my life. It's so rare that there's important information beyond what's in the headline anyways. I respect paywalls much more.
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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by tripzilch on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:30AM (#14106650)
"I'll whitelist you, as soon as you stop using a third party ad network"

"But then what's the point", we both said in unison.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by davidgerard on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:57PM (#14110864)
"Because ad tech is a sucking leech", per the article this post is about.

* Everything is worse for users (tracking and malware)

* Everything is worse for advertisers (ineffective ads)

* Everything is worse for publishers (pays way too little)

* But adtech gets paid well

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