You can't charge money on each and every site, it makes no sense for eg. a blog and even if it did - transaction fees would make it infeasible. A blog still costs money to run/host, it has to get paid somehow.
Ads are basically a bad implementation of micropayments that the internet seriously needs.
First company to solve the problem of charging 0.000x per request will become the next Big Thing.
I think only the ISPs would be able to do this though, metered and bandwidth cost sharing, internet as a utility like gas/elecricity.
Then don't? Just ask for a donation if you think the website is useful and enjoyable (I'm cross referencing posts alot in this article, but see what I said earlier about NexusMods).
I don't expect people will want to pay just to log into your site and that's not a business model they want to use. But if I can pay an optional $0.50C for every site I regularly frequent to skip their ads. Which assists them in providing a web service or content I want to consume. That's the road I will take.
I want to help the content creators but I won't consume their advertisement material.
I guess that's probably the most polite response, at least.
The main motivation I can see for an ad blocker-blocker-blocker would be for like, if the ad-blocker-blocker has claims than using an ad-blocker is immoral. Because, well, it could be sorta insulting.
But if it's just a statement of like, "don't use our website with an ad blocker please" (and not displaying the content), then, using an ad-(blocker^3) is I think probably rather rude.
Probably not outside of one's rights, but still, rude.
> You can't charge money on each and every site, it makes no sense for eg. a blog and even if it did - transaction fees would make it infeasible.
That's a pretty clear sign your content isn't as valuable as you think.
> A blog still costs money to run/host, it has to get paid somehow.
Hosting a blog is very, very cheap (aka free), unless you're getting tons and tons of traffic, which you're probably not. And even if you specifically are, the majority of people aren't.
Monetizing a personal blog is kinda lame anyway.
> Ads are basically a bad implementation of micropayments that the internet seriously needs.
No they're not. You can't just change the definition to make it seem less sleazy.
Ads are basically a bad implementation of micropayments that the internet seriously needs.
First company to solve the problem of charging 0.000x per request will become the next Big Thing.
I think only the ISPs would be able to do this though, metered and bandwidth cost sharing, internet as a utility like gas/elecricity.