> Biggest issue is that people just don't like paying for content
I don't think people are ever going to be willing to pay for content in terms of giving their money to the writer/publisher/etc, even if it's 1c. Look at the app store as an example, if people aren't even willing to pay 99c for a game that they dump 20+ hours of their life into (which can be done friction-free in 2 taps), why would they pay to read an article with poor journalism about something that doesn't really matter to them?
Giving up your privacy or agreeing to be shown big adverts for things corporations want you to buy seems to be perfectly accepted outside of our paranoid tech world. Next time you go to the supermarket look at how many products you see placed strategically at the end of aisles, or how many people have loyalty cards which give them discounts.
>> Giving up your privacy or agreeing to be shown big adverts for things corporations want you to buy seems to be perfectly accepted outside of our paranoid tech world.
No, I really don't think it is.
More and more non-tech people I know are running ad blockers these days. And for tracking I think there are probably three groups of people, those that know and object, those that know and don't care and those that don't know. The last group being by far the largest, so it's difficult to predict what they might think if they knew they were constantly being recorded and profiled.
> More and more non-tech people I know are running ad blockers these days
As others have pointed out in this thread, an ad-blocker is like a condom in 2015 to protect you from malware, it's not just to claim back your privacy. Whenever I setup / fix a non-technical person's computer I always install it - even fairly legitimate sites have the "Download this to make your PC faster!" ads.
The point about people not knowing is a good one. Rather than focussing on building better ad-blocking technology, maybe we should focusing on educating people and getting DNT and such written into law?
I don't think people are ever going to be willing to pay for content in terms of giving their money to the writer/publisher/etc, even if it's 1c. Look at the app store as an example, if people aren't even willing to pay 99c for a game that they dump 20+ hours of their life into (which can be done friction-free in 2 taps), why would they pay to read an article with poor journalism about something that doesn't really matter to them?
Giving up your privacy or agreeing to be shown big adverts for things corporations want you to buy seems to be perfectly accepted outside of our paranoid tech world. Next time you go to the supermarket look at how many products you see placed strategically at the end of aisles, or how many people have loyalty cards which give them discounts.