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Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by drawkbox on Thursday September 04, 2008 @08:40PM (#295377)
Advertising is one of the only ways to monetize free visitor aspects and paths. Advertising is one of the last American innovative markets. As soon as you start trying to bring any type of content that that is free, I am sure you will change your ways.

Blocking ads is like anti-bacterial soap. It makes your immunity to these things much lower if that is why you are so bothered by ads. Block ads on sites that you don't frequent, but ones that you do, throw some pennies in the hat.

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Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by mattmaroon on Thursday September 04, 2008 @10:04PM (#295440)
There are lots of ways to monetize free sites. See Kayak or TicketStumbler. There's also the freemium service.

The reality of ad blocking software (which is spreading quickly and won't stop until it's as ubiquitous as popup blocking is now) is that you'll have to find a better, more integrated business model at some point.

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Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by dhimes on Thursday September 04, 2008 @10:49PM (#295466)
My hunch is that ad blocking is a huge threat to Google. So if they can control the browser space...

I still don't know why IE doesn't ship with ad blockers. Would it hurt them? Perhaps in the short run. But in the long run, it would do far more damage to G.

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Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by anewaccountname on Thursday September 04, 2008 @11:58PM (#295533)
anti-trust
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Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by william42 on Thursday September 04, 2008 @09:56PM (#295432)
Agreed. Personally, I find advertising much less annoying than having to pay for things directly, especially online where it's still easy to phish. The only ads I block are the obnoxious Flash ones.
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