<story><title>Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/propelled-by-apple-ad-blocking-cottage-industry-emerges-1443115929</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karunamon</author><text>And just like that, Crystal was uninstalled.&lt;p&gt;Didn&amp;#x27;t take long for the conflicts of interest to show up!&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;According to Mr. Murphy, he isn’t adding the option for financial gain, but rather to make sure publishers aren’t overburdened by all-out blocking of ads on their sites.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;My response to which is: &amp;quot;Who do you think you&amp;#x27;re fooling? You are taking money to allow people to defeat the core purpose of your application.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Secret Media plans to only work with “premium” publishers who don’t bombard users with large amounts of low-quality advertising.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there any other kind?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adiabatty</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;gt; large amounts of low-quality advertising.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Is there any other kind?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say The Deck manages to be high-quality, low-volume advertising. One of their rules is &amp;quot;our ad is the only ad on the page&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;decknetwork.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;decknetwork.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Artisanal ad networks targeted to web workers don&amp;#x27;t exactly _scale_ to the rest of the ad industry, but non-irritating advertising exists.</text></comment>
<story><title>Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/propelled-by-apple-ad-blocking-cottage-industry-emerges-1443115929</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karunamon</author><text>And just like that, Crystal was uninstalled.&lt;p&gt;Didn&amp;#x27;t take long for the conflicts of interest to show up!&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;According to Mr. Murphy, he isn’t adding the option for financial gain, but rather to make sure publishers aren’t overburdened by all-out blocking of ads on their sites.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;My response to which is: &amp;quot;Who do you think you&amp;#x27;re fooling? You are taking money to allow people to defeat the core purpose of your application.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Secret Media plans to only work with “premium” publishers who don’t bombard users with large amounts of low-quality advertising.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there any other kind?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielhgma</author><text>&amp;gt; taking money to allow people to defeat the core purpose of your application.&lt;p&gt;Seriously. This is so bad for users</text></comment>