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Re:Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web by JoshTriplett on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:45PM (#19983556)
> We know there are users who want this because loads of people complain about paywalls.

That's a false dichotomy. "Users don't like paywalls, so they must like ads"...no, users don't like paywalls and also don't like ads.

(We can skip the whole "then how will content be paid for" argument that's been had thousands of times. There are plenty of solutions that aren't paywalls or ads.)

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Re:Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web by eppsilon on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:59PM (#19984864)
What solutions are you talking about? Premium subscriptions / donations like Ars Technica and the Guardian use? Those are the only major online publishers I can think of that aren't monetizing via ads, paywalls, or both.
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