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Personally, I want the advertising industry to not exist. Moral question of for-profit manipulation aside, I think if you look at net societal benefits versus total cost, it's pretty easy to see that we could find better things to do with the ~$1 trillion that it consumes. That day won't come any sooner just by me running an ad blocker.

>>wpietr+(OP)
If this is truly what you want, then what is your suggestion for financing the existence of sites that wish to stay afloat? Paywalls don't work.

>>wpietr+(OP)
To be fair in your last two comments you went from "I don't want to see ads" to "I don't want anyone to see ads."

That's a pretty big philosophical difference.

>>dontbl+Oh
Wikipedia doesn't have ads or paywalls.

>>mulmen+4o
It absolutely has ads, for a few weeks every year, for itself.

>>zamfi+9p
people tautologically define ads as only that which they don't wish to see

>>mulmen+Xn
Only if you look at the first sentence. In the rest of my first comment, I am pretty clearly talking about the problems of the industry as a whole.

>>dontbl+Oh
Paywalls don't work? Tell that to the WSJ, the NYT, Netflix, Disney, and so on. They all do just fine.

>>zamfi+9p
Those are solicitations for donations. Wikipedia isn’t selling anything.