The economics of a web-based book
The article says if you use an ad-blocker then you're starving sites and the web to death.<p>It's not that simple.<p>I don't mind looking at ads at all. I use an ad blocker because web ads overreach. The egregious ones shout at me, play animations, use my machine cycles, and worst, they track me. I'm creeped out when I look at some page, and then see ads for what was on that page all over subsequent page visits elsewhere.<p>Ad blockers are not starving the web, they're a feedback mechanism. They're saying "this particular money channel doesn't work." And advertisers and sellers may (I hope) be forced to think of something else.<p>The web is not only for content producers, it's also for consumers. If you're a producer, and you need to make money, it's your responsibility to figure out how to do that in a way that's acceptable to me, the consumer. And if you can't, well, sorry about that. Do something else. As a ridiculous example, I'd like to sit here on the couch all day and comment on HN, but that's not going to feed me, so I have to get up and go do something totally different for the rest of the day; later I'll bring home some money.<p>And for now I will continue to use ad blockers, sending the signal that this way of making money isn't going to work with me.