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Re:Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a ... by Iv on Saturday July 20, 2019 @04:39AM (#20484756)
Advertisement is a cancer. It is time we forbid it instead of making it fund every website in existence.
Re:Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a ... by kanokun on Saturday July 20, 2019 @04:46AM (#20484776)
It will end only when there is a viable alternative and as of now there is none.
Re:Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a ... by mishu2 on Saturday July 20, 2019 @07:28PM (#20488945)
What about all the projects being posted lately (quid, Mozilla with scroll, brave Browser, etc)?

I think the friction of getting started, both as creator and as contributor is still too high. I created a proof of concept site about this as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20448087), but I don't think that's an ideal solution either, just maybe a little easier to get started. Any feedback is welcome, of course.

Re:Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a ... by Iv on Saturday July 20, 2019 @07:30AM (#20485196)
There will be a viable alternative the day advertisement is gone.

There will be thousands of startups rushing to fill the gap.

Re:Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a ... by BubRoss on Saturday July 20, 2019 @02:53PM (#20487612)
Or you could spend $65 on a raspberry pi and install pi-hole. Then a huge amount of advertising and tracking never gets accessed and everything goes faster. This is a little more pragmatic then expecting all advertising to go away.
Re:Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a ... by dageshi on Saturday July 20, 2019 @06:16AM (#20484959)
All you have to do is pay ALL the websites you visit and it'll go away...
Re:Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a ... by Iv on Saturday July 20, 2019 @07:31AM (#20485199)
I would be fine with paying them the amount they get from the advertisement they show me.

Force banks to accept micro-payments (In 2019, for God's sake! That's not rocket science! That's a database transaction!) and I'd be fine with it.

Re:Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a ... by perl4ever on Saturday July 20, 2019 @12:22PM (#20486643)
Is there any way to search the internet except for all the advertising supported sites?