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Why Ad Blocking Hurts the Sites You Love

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SixDegrees3/08/2010 9:30:32 am PST

re: #8 recusancy

You know what else is annoying? Not having a thriving, free (therefore ad based) internet to surf on.

I ran my own web site for many years at my own expense; it’s not like it costs a lot, or even anything at all on some hosts. I added advertising a couple of years ago, and generate enough dough to cover my hosting costs.

The Internet was in existence long before ads on the Internet were. The cost of posting content is somewhere between trivial and non-existent. In my case, the time I devote to maintaining my site is something I’d do anyway, and did, for free.