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https://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/:
Internet ads are horrible: They waste your time, and the advertising industry makes the internet a worse place. Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad filled hellhole with no real substance.
If you want to support your favorite authors: send them money. A dollar helps more than viewing ads ever would.
However, most people see advertising as a part of the internet experience, which is why I added this message to my site:
No adblocker detected. Consider using an extension like uBlock Origin to save time and bandwidth. Click here to close.
It’s shown off to the side, and never covers content. It won’t be shown if there isn’t enough space. The close button actually works and it stays closed.
The specific recommendation is important because a lot of people have only heard of adblockers from ads. Commercial adblockers range from sketchy to outright scams: If they are paying to be promoted, they must expect to make money from users.
This is a very cool activist idea.
I prototyped it in this blog:
However I would need to add a cookie in order to implement the close button effectively, and I’d rather not do so.