[dpoloncsak]

>The only losers where ad buyers, who IMHO are exactly the ones that should be affected.until they realize that ads are not effective.

Honest question, what do you envision will keep the free-internet free in lou of ads? Do you think a pay-walled internet, $3 for this site, $5 for this....would ever take off?

I too block ads, but feel like i'm slowly contributing to the death spiral of the internet

[neruthes]

Perhaps in recent years informational blog articles are mostly ads for the writer's products, services, and the chance to employ them? Informational stuff will remain public and free because eager seekers of monetization will easily convert to creators of marketplace-protected products and sell something on Steam or Gumroad. As long as one's primary purpose is to be informed, there will always be some writer not monetizing that particular piece of information. Maintaining the infrastructure (data centers and cables) eventually costs a lot of money and it must be paid by somebody eventually. Serving text pieces from a CDN is cheap enough for any blogger to personally afford, but no sane video hosting website will stop putting ads around.

[estimator7292]

The internet used to be free.

[xtracto]

It's so sad to read that there is people who is completely oblivious to the time when we had amazing free Gopher sites, or the WWW started and was fully Free (with L as in Libre).

People born in 2000+ have no idea about that time