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Re:Correlation behind adblock growth surge and AdSense reven... by thaumaturgy on Friday July 11, 2014 @10:08AM (#8020171)
> Inaction here will kill their industry.

That's the part I'm less certain about. I would've expected it to happen already; they're hurting themselves, but so far not fatally.

Re:Correlation behind adblock growth surge and AdSense reven... by coldpie on Friday July 11, 2014 @01:05PM (#8021214)
We need to get web browsers to ship with Adblock from the start. You'd be insane to set up an email server without some form of spam filtering, why not do the same with browsers?

Yes, it would collapse the current web business model. I fully support this.

Re:Correlation behind adblock growth surge and AdSense reven... by userbinator on Friday July 11, 2014 @03:18PM (#8021912)
As much as I loathe ads myself, I don't think it's a good idea to default to blocking ads, not the least because the definition of an ad is a little hard to capture completely without either false negatives or positives. Different people also have different ideas on what they consider acceptable ads, so it could be a form of unwanted censorship to some.

Default to showing all the content, but let people make their own choice on what to filter out.