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.It's not that simple.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.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.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.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.