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99% of online advertisers give the rest a bad name.<p>Not only is this why online advertising is ultimately doomed, but it's why we hugely and desperately and badly need to find another way of paying for content.<p>The alternatives for the moment are gratis, patronage, "native advertising", and subscriptions.  Few of these strike me as ultimately scalable.<p>I've been a fan of Phil Hunt, of Pirate Party UK, and his broadband tax proposal after more-or-less independently coming up with the same idea myself.  Hunt's proposal was principally aimed at music.  I see no reason why it cannot apply to <i>all</i> content published and distributed online.<p><a href="http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-for-the-uk/" rel="nofollow">http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-fo...</a><p>My own sketched proposal:
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