Re:Perplexity Response to Cloudflare
by 1gn15 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:53AM
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Do you have an ad-blocker? If so, should website owners be able to disable your ad-blocker via a setting they send to you? It's their content, after all.
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Re:Perplexity Response to Cloudflare
by Rebelgecko on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:54AM
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As a frugal person it's frustrating when websites block me for using an ad blocker, but I also don't think publishers should be required to send me data
They may, and do, refuse to send you the page. That is a more realistic parallel.
Without advertising the web would be largely unsupportable financially without per site subscriptions.
Without advertising, the web would be a far healthier place today, free of click-bait and ad-infested, low effort, low quality content. Bad business models wouldn't've survived the light of day.