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Would it be safe to say that most of the websites overloaded with advertising/popups are trying to make money? That is why the adverts are there.

I see the proposal offers a value proposition for Unsplash and creators using their images. However I don't see how the the article solves the problem of advertising.

Websites overloaded with advertising/popups will still exist unchanged because they are attempting to convert visitor traffic to a revenue stream by using advertising as their funding mechanism.

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You are likely correct but I just don't care about people making money from their websites with ads, and I imagine a lot of other people feel the same. The web was just fine before ads and it would readjust if they were gone.

When I see an ad it immediately devalues the brand being advertised, as well as the content.

In the end, people are free to have ads on their sites, and I am free to block them, and if enough people agree with me the websites dependent on ads will eventually cease to exist.

Absolutely. I wasn't advocating for advertisements, merely pointing out the flaw in the proposal from Unsplash which claims to fix advertising.

> The web was just fine before ads and it would readjust if they were gone.

Ah the halcyon days between 1991 and 1994 ....

I think it is seriously something you need a lot of minors and hobbyists to maintain. I had a thought about a later era with some ads. The flash games era.

Now if you look at game websites you'll see a lot of old flash developers who went onto "real life" reselling them. This isn't a bad thing, they take out the work of fooling around with web archives and creating a proper flash-jail but it illustrates how the web has gotten older, creators went onto 'real life' and what remains is professionalized.

Of course there is nothing technically stopping you from engaging in the same as the past except other users of free time.

> the websites dependent on ads will eventually cease to exist.

And the free content of the web will also disappear.

But that will never happen... Believing that the content that a person produces should "be free" only shows how pathetic you are and your little experience in software development.

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