Google Contributor removes Google ads for a monthly fee

[HEXUS]

The new crowdfunding tool for publishers will banish ads from selected websites.

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[Spud1]

Certainly an interesting concept - take the individual "join this site and pay a small fee to remove ads" approach and widen the scope to include potentially hundreds/thousands of sites from a single payment/system.

The big two questions for me would be if its a "pay per site" or "pay for all" approach, but even more so is if this would apply purely to google ads, or also to the intrusive ones?

Personally I never have an issue with google ads. They are unobtrusive and generally hidden away from the "click zones". The Ads I can't stand are the big all-colour ones covered in a click map that open up a popup if you accidentally click on the advert. Given the ad covers 1/3 of the screen it's often hard not to! Sadly Hexus are one of the worst offenders here and it is the single biggest reason why I personally never venture beyond the forums and forum news stories. If you are unsure what I mean, go to http://hexus.net/ and mis-click the scroll bar on the right by just a few mm. You'll be taken straight to scan.

If I could pay a few $ a month to get rid of all of those really obtrusive adverts then I would do it in a hearbeat. I suspect it's google ads only though, particularly as sites such as Hexus which has adverts designed into the very structure of the pages would look very odd without them.

Still we'll see how it plays out - certainly has potential.

[jimbouk]

If I could pay a few $ a month to get rid of all of those really obtrusive adverts then I would do it in a hearbeat. I suspect it's google ads only though, particularly as sites such as Hexus which has adverts designed into the very structure of the pages would look very odd without them.

Although one would argue that that would just encourage sites to put more obtrusive ads in to push people towards paying for sites. I would like to support Hexus in a more constructive way that just being annoyed by but never clicking on the ads (at least not intentionally).

I'm guessing because of the small amounts of money involved, this will need some sort of central broker to manage is (and take a cut for the privilege) due to the admin costs of handling lots of $1 payments.

[Plasmastorm]

I'll just stick to my rooted phone/tablet with adblock from Big tin can.
Free and has kept me ad free for best part of 5yr now.

[MrRockliffe]

I'll just stick to my rooted phone/tablet with adblock from Big tin can.
Free and has kept me ad free for best part of 5yr now.

That's helpful for you, but this is allowing the user to remove ads (albeit at a cost) and still support the website, unlike when people use ad blocking services.

[KendrickDM]

I'll just stick to my rooted phone/tablet with adblock from Big tin can.
Free and has kept me ad free for best part of 5yr now.

That's helpful for you, but this is allowing the user to remove ads (albeit at a cost) and still support the website, unlike when people use ad blocking services.

The problem is that ads can contain anything in a popup window, IE was a plague on the OS for allowing back doors and exploits via the browser and unless ads are html text, I adblock them as a security risk at all times.

Either ads are running in a sandbox or blocked period and at the moment they are all blocked as a security risk. Plasmastorm got it right, it is not about supporting the host site, it is about protecting your machine, connection and device from and unpoliced wild west internet trying to exploit you for it's 'free' content. I would rather not be part of a Russian mafia's botnet either.