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Re:Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web by cptskippy on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:23AM (#14470544)
> I think the entire point is to get people using uBlock etc to either turn it off or to pay,

It is not an either or situation. Google wants to track you and get paid for doing so. They don't care if the money comes from you or advertisers. They do however care if they can't track you.

A contribution system could be setup completely independent of the ad serving system. That however has not been the case. With all iterations of Contributor before this, if you had Ad Blocker enabled then Contributor did not work at all.

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Re:Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web by Eridrus on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:26AM (#14470566)
> With all iterations of Contributor before this, if you had Ad Blocker enabled then Contributor did not work at all.

"This time is different", or at least I think this time it will be different, since the whole point is to reach users who have ad blockers enabled, I guess we'll see how it goes.

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