I think online advertising as we know it will be essentially dead by the end of the decade. Economics 101 should tell you how bad that would be for most HN readers. If that cash cow ends there would be a huge reduction in money for devs, and a massive flood of devs on to the market. The end of online advertising is an existential threat for a massive part of the tech industry. If you start asking users for actual money they suddenly decide that all these services represent no value and they'll live without them. People accept ads because they're a way of paying for things without really thinking about it. The key thing that most people in tech don't appear to grok very easily is that the overwhelming majority of web services like search engines, social media, ad-driven news websites, etc are all things that users place practically zero value on. Maybe we should be a little bit glad that the main thing keeping massive amounts of money in tech is accepted by users. ĭeveloper wages would crash through the floor and all the way down to the centre of the Earth if ad blockers really took off without users also accepting micropayments or subscriptions for web services at the same time.
Note that the AdGuard public DNS server including custom DNS filtering rules has just (26 August 2022) gone open source. Hushed - throwaway numbers for spam SMSġ. iCab Mobile if wanting a super configurable browser with filter rules and longest history as indie browser for iOSįolks also use ancillary quieters such as: similar DNS service to nextdns.io with ability to upload your own rules based configurations pihole type blocker with unlimited configurations, custom rules, and analytics, native hooks for devices AdGuard Pro - Similar to 1Blocker, less custom config friendly business model is paid software, not ‘acceptable ads’ paying them for placement or third parties paying for your data 1Blocker - super full featured, including custom script and css rules. Most people who use anything for iOS tend to use things like: I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads. The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock.
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