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Comment by LorenDB | Hacker News Reader

This is a perfect reason to install uBlock Origin.

Seriously. If you have enough time and self actualization to complain about the content of online ads, then you have more than enough time to install an ad blocker and be done with that particular form of malware.

Sidenote: your site's SCSS file 404s - https://lorendb.dev/css/main.scss (Firefox, macOS)

Thanks, I've fixed it.

> This is a perfect reason to install uBlock Origin.

For anyone who isn’t running Chrome, that is.

And anyone not on iOS stuck with webkit.

They knew what they were getting into, it's never been a secret that iOS is advertising hell.

Add the AdGuard DNS configuration profile to your iDevice as a whole (no need for any separate app), and ads are blocked for everything except apps whose ads are drawn from the same source as their content.

https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/encrypted-dns-ios-14.html

So yeah. While it won’t kill ads in apps like YouTube or Pinterest, it will kill nearly all ads in web pages and apps that source their ads from external providers.

This might be a fine solution for individuals, but of course won't help the ads/publishing industry recover from its current death spiral.

It's not intended to help anyone who runs ads.

What is your suggested economic model for internet content? Do you prefer paywalls?

What’s the economic model for hacker news commenters?

Commenting on Hacker News is fun. But I'm really glad the internet has professional journalists as well.

Yes

I tend to pay for quality content, yes.

Somehow, TV and newspapers survived and thrived on non- targeted, not-filthy ads for decades.

I'd have little problem with static ads in webpages that looked like the ones in magazines I grew up with.

Yes, involving a third party with interests contrary to the producer or consumer of the material just adds poor incentives that inevitably lead to poor outcomes.

Is it our job to figure out someone else’s business model?

Not per se. But I think you should in general think about the consequences of your actions. I am concerned about the future of journalism.

To be clear, I also use an adblocker and I don't have any good answers.

Who needs more Internet content?

By "help" I'm assuming you mean the same thing as what I would mean, that is: the acceleration of said death spiral.

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