This is the way towards reaching an understanding. Web ad networks are out of control and so are web tracking systems. The social contract that rules the web and pays for the content, needs renegotiating.
Originally shared by God Emperor Lionel Lauer
Dear website owners: This is the right way to convince me to disable AdBlocker or subscribe to your site. Please note though, I reserve the right to switch it back on if any of your advertisers attempt to exploit my system.
John Hardy Developer 
I’m going to have to be brutal and say “Find another business model.”
But fortunately for them there is only one me.
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Wired was pretty bad, popups with a translucent layer underneatch. The best ones though is the spammer run old URLs for eztv.it and TPB. The search page is already asking to install something or asking for phone number.
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I uncircled the Atlantic over a year ago when I realized how insubstantive their articles were. It’s like reading the Enquirer, with eye-grabbing headlines and nothing behind it.
Time Magazine and Salon is starting to drift into that mode.
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It’s getting increasingly common to see that these days.
Unfortunately the reason I block ads is not because I don’t like being advertised to—generally I can cope with that, assuming they’re not some horrific disruptive overlays (which they often are). The reason is that ads are evil little tracking devices and I don’t want to give that information out thanks. So the ad blocker stays on and will continue to for the foreseeable.
The Guardian’s one actually says “maybe consider paying us some money directly instead” which is more reasonable.
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I think the direct pay request is totally reasonable and I’d consider paying for the Guardian. Probably not many other sites though in their current form.
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