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Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP... by joesmo on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:11PM (#9696796)
This is a step in the right direction but falls short of being the right direction. An ad blocker built into a major browser and turned on by default should long ago have been available.

This will hopefully push websites, especially news websites, to figure out some other monetization strategy, one that's not based on ads and therefore doesn't undermine the credibility of the news and the site.

So it's a win for consumers as no one wants to see ads as well as hopefully taking consumers closer to ad free, unbiased news sources.

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Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP... by alogray on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:19PM (#9696834)
The next obvious target for monetization by news organizations are sponsored articles. I've started to see them in certain San Francisco specific news websites. It's not exactly the sort of thing we want to push these sites toward.
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Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP... by kibwen on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @10:52PM (#9697175)
Press releases masquerading as news have been a tradition since time immemorial: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP... by jay_kyburz on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @10:55PM (#9697179)
A fools errand. The only news sources that can ever be trusted are publicly funded organisations like Australias ABC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corpora...

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