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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by matheusmoreira on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:55AM (#22125715)
Availability of alternative business models doesn't matter. They'll just make advertisers pay even more money to reach an audience with disposable income and willingness to spend it. The fact is some executive is always going to show up and say "think of all the money we could be making if we just served ads and sold our user data in addition to our current business model!"

The answer is to make ads unprofitable. When someone pays for advertising, they must get no return on their investment. Only then will ads disappear from the web. In order to achieve this, all ads must be blocked automatically and by default, no exceptions must be made, and the blocker software must be pre-installed for all users.

Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by clarry on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:57AM (#22126818)
> The answer is to make ads unprofitable.

https://adnauseam.io/

Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by pier25 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:46AM (#22128428)
AdNauseam must be pretty effective. Google not only banned it from the web store but also made it difficult for regular users to install it on Chrome.

https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on...

Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by lapnitnelav on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:45PM (#22131069)
It is but mostly because it decreases the trust in the ecosystem.

This being said, the current W3C Advertising API draft proposal on serving ads is possibly inspired by it.

Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by matheusmoreira on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:09AM (#22136593)
> W3C Advertising API

What is this?

Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by lapnitnelav on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:50PM (#22155027)
https://github.com/w3c/web-advertising

The draft of the proposed new standard for ads on the web