Why It’s OK to Block Ads (2015)

Re:Why It’s OK to Block Ads (2015) by tomjen3 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:10PM (#15972134)

I remember back when hosting a website was orders of magnitudes more expensive than today, and how many hosted their own website, about something they had a passion about.

If all those who make websites to peddle ads were forced of the net, maybe there would be a space for those who have a passion and love to create.

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Re:Why It’s OK to Block Ads (2015) by ogdoad on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:30PM (#15972331)

If we cut down all these pesky trees we'll be able to enjoy the beautiful flowers of the forest. Where does that leave the forest though? The net has a problem with noise, not space.

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Re:Why It’s OK to Block Ads (2015) by tomjen3 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:29PM (#15982947)

You are right - harddrives are so cheap today that we can trivially host all the text anybody cares to write.

On the other hand, for any given query there is only 10 spots on the first page of google, and I really rather not have any of them taken over by spammers.

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