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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by dontblink on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:25PM (#23479682)
Its funny to note that many people here complain about Google preventing page views, but have no restraint in doing the same by blocking ads. Pot meet kettle...
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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by TeMPOraL on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:06PM (#23481439)
Blocking ads doesn't prevent page views, it prevents viewing garbage along with the pages.
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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by smt88 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:31PM (#23479742)
These are not comparable practices.

Google is a search monopoly. Republishing search results to keep users on Google (rather than the publisher) is literally stealing content and the pageviews the content generated.

As a user, blocking programmatic ads (such as those served by ad marketplaces) is the only way to browse the web safely.

Websites are free to use affiliate links, subscriptions, donations, non-marketplace ads, or any other safe monetization strategy. I will not apologize for blocking the unsafe monetization strategies.

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by a1369209993 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:54PM (#23483140)
Specifically, we already know how to display ads:

  <a href="..."><img src="..."/></a>
Anything which uses javascript to display ads is by definition malware, and should be treated accordingly.
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