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Re:An approach to fair ad blocking by enneff on Monday May 11, 2009 @10:54PM (#604780)
"Unfortunately the web as we know it would largely not exist without advertising revenue."

That is my point. I liked it a lot more before the commercial web took over. Once, the web was 99% content. Now it's a real effort to find anything worth reading.

Re:An approach to fair ad blocking by lucumo on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @04:53AM (#605080)
> Once, the web was 99% content.

If you call your average vanity page "content", then sure, that's true...

Re:An approach to fair ad blocking by enneff on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @06:16AM (#605141)
Did you actually use the web back then? It was dominated by academic, technical information, and useful discussion. No spam, no interstitial ads, no SEO, no bullshit.