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No ads are acceptable if I choose to have an ad-blocker installed.

I don't adblock because I don't want ads; I adblock because the vast majority of ads are garbage, distracting, noisy, and frustrating, blocking huge swaths of the page and making the content harder or impossible to see, and because tracking pixels, third-party JS, analytics, and so on all make page loading 10-30 times slower (or worse).

If a company is serving good, simple ads, if they don't take up an inordinate amount of space, slow my computer, waste massive amounts of bandwidth, and overall ruin my web browsing experience, I'm fine with it.

But no one is. So I adblock.

If the end result of adblock is that websites stop being slow, user-hostile blobs of ads and third-party analytics, then I'd consider that an overall win. If the result is that websites start relying on reasonable subscription or access fees and that people become willing to pay that, then even better.

Not sure why you got downvoted. I will not accept any ads.

Do you expect content producers to get paid?

Not through ads displayed in my browser. There are other ways to get paid, though.

So content displayed through browser should be behind a paywall then? What if the solution is ads blocked for a fee?

Not if I have to allow untested 3rd party Javascript / malware onto my system. No thank you.

Value of random website that I click on: $0.01

Potential losses from drive-by-download or other malicious content served by an ad-network: -$30000.00

Honest question: Do you pay for your media?

I find that the best media is created by people who have a job other than "content creation to farm eyeballs for ads". If advertising disappeared, there'd be a lot less crap on the internet.

So you've never watched a good movie or tv show or listened to good music? Millions of people work very hard fulltime on creating the best content.

Some people might produce some gems as a hobby but much of that is also crap.

>I find that the best media is created by people who have a job

Dude, where do you think their salaries come from?

>If advertising disappeared, there'd be a lot less crap on the internet.

Also Google wouldn't exist...

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