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but there are no easy way to discern the good sites from the bad so I just cant stop visiting bad sites when i get a link or search for something.

So the only way for it to get better is collective punishment. If web publishers made decent websites such things would not be needed.

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No. That doesn't work. There's a reason collective punishment is a war crime, you know.

Why doesn't it work? If people decide to boycott a company or industry for unetical acts have worked in the past, not always but you cant say it dont have the possibility of a positive effect.

By the way, collective punishment is not a war crime. It can be in certain circumstances but so can a lot of other things.

We are not talking about boycotting a company or industry here. That's boycotting the Internet because Publishers who provide free information here make a large part of the Internet.

In the end, you won't find so much content freely available and would have to pay for it directly - most likely.

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