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99% of online advertisers give the rest a bad name.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.The alternatives for the moment are gratis, patronage, "native advertising", and subscriptions.  Few of these strike me as ultimately scalable.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 all content published and distributed online.http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-fo...My own sketched proposal:
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modest...
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2h0h81/specifyi...