modzoo

seriously wtf.. it was tldr but amongst anybody who reaches mythical/legendary status we know, implicitly, that the myth isnt the man. i remember learning about gene roddenberry and how he was kind of a pig towards women. but his philosophy was totally against that. i think, in the long run, his philosophy is what is more important. its what deserves being shared and praised, even if the man wasnt quite the living ideal. if we did the opposite, and somehow devalued his ideas because of his faults, i think that would be a tragedy. im not saying we should pretend the faults werent there, but im thinking, telling one of these stories is worth telling and the other, well.. there are probably better things to do

dont talk shit about the man. the feynman

but my point is that hackernews does survive. its not a pipedream

Reply from Wladimir Palant:

"whitelisting websites if they serve only acceptable ads turned out unrealistic – nobody would do that right now. There needs to be more incentive to use acceptable advertising first."

https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-by-the-numbers

perfect case in point. generating all this revenue for google based on basically tricking and redirecting old people into shit they dont need. i think ads are easy and successful and wrong. you cant imagine any other way to pull off popular internet services without ads? shit son

i was harsh.. i do in fact know some people who depend on ad revenue to keep servers running. but ads on the internet are generally out of control and i think its a huge bubble, even the ad revenue that my friends rely on is just garbage that i would never want anybody to click on...

anyway the main point stands - if you publish an ad blocker it should block ads.

suddenly a simple concept gets really complicated when there is an "application process" and set of "criteria" by which ads can be whitelisted -- who defines this criteria? is it always published? am i donating to a project that is actually commercially supported? etc

also was anybody else confused by this (from https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-by-the-numbers):

"Over 50 percent [of applicants] rejected because ads not acceptable.

In all, we accepted only 9.5 percent of applicants."

That math seems weird...