Hacker News Reader

Also, Readability tried something similar. Didn't work.

https://gigaom.com/2011/02/01/419-readability-intros-subscri...

https://gigaom.com/2012/06/13/readability-ends-publisher-pay...

Sounds like Readability was blocking all ads and then saying "come find us so we can pay you, even though we never told you we were doing this, oops too late".

Plus since then there's been the invention of these Taboola and Outbrain type ads which are like the ISIS of advertising. Because of them I'm sensing a lot more people are ready to declare war on web ads.

I didn't know what Taboola or Outbrain was so I searched and found this: https://newthealarmclock.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/screen-... and I recognized them. Very tabloid-style.

If they were always pics of nice looking girls in bikinis nobody would have a problem, usually they look like this: http://digiday.com/publishers/is-this-the-worst-page-on-the-...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com