<story><title>What the ad blocker debate reveals</title><url>http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/03/what-the-ad-blocker-debate-reveals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danr4</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s rather simple in my mind.&lt;p&gt;Putting your content up for free is the same as standing by my fence, waiting for me to ask you to throw your magazine over so I could read it.&lt;p&gt;You can put ads, but I can cut them out if I want for a better reading experience.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t want me to cut out the ads? tough luck, my reading experience, my choice.&lt;p&gt;Want to make money? try a subscription model.&lt;p&gt;Why can&amp;#x27;t you have both? Welcome to the real world.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT]:&lt;p&gt;This was the previous opening sentence:
&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Putting your content up for free is the same as throwing your magazine over my fence for free.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I changed it to a better analogy offered by AndrewKemendo in hope people would stop picking the analogy apart and focus on the message it&amp;#x27;s trying to deliver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s simple too, but doesn&amp;#x27;t need a meatspace analogy like that.&lt;p&gt;I request some data, you send me some data. My computing device (yes MY computing device) then renders it in accordance with my wishes.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s it.&lt;p&gt;(oh, and no, I have no obligation to play ball with your trackers)</text></comment>
<story><title>What the ad blocker debate reveals</title><url>http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/03/what-the-ad-blocker-debate-reveals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danr4</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s rather simple in my mind.&lt;p&gt;Putting your content up for free is the same as standing by my fence, waiting for me to ask you to throw your magazine over so I could read it.&lt;p&gt;You can put ads, but I can cut them out if I want for a better reading experience.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t want me to cut out the ads? tough luck, my reading experience, my choice.&lt;p&gt;Want to make money? try a subscription model.&lt;p&gt;Why can&amp;#x27;t you have both? Welcome to the real world.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT]:&lt;p&gt;This was the previous opening sentence:
&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Putting your content up for free is the same as throwing your magazine over my fence for free.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I changed it to a better analogy offered by AndrewKemendo in hope people would stop picking the analogy apart and focus on the message it&amp;#x27;s trying to deliver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austenallred</author><text>This comment rubs me in the wrong way.&lt;p&gt;Content creators aren&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;putting it up for free&amp;quot; - they&amp;#x27;re putting it up with ads attached. They&amp;#x27;re certainly not &amp;quot;throwing it over your fence.&amp;quot; They&amp;#x27;re not injecting their articles into your browser, you&amp;#x27;re going to a URL to request them. &lt;i&gt;You&lt;/i&gt; seek the content out.&lt;p&gt;So, you go to a site, and download all of the content. That is what the company offered. Some of that is what allowed the company to create the content. You elect to not display that part using your client. I suppose that&amp;#x27;s your prerogative, but don&amp;#x27;t pretend like you&amp;#x27;re the victim in this.&lt;p&gt;And also don&amp;#x27;t pretend like it&amp;#x27;s the company&amp;#x27;s fault for not choosing your preferred business model. You don&amp;#x27;t get to choose other companies&amp;#x27; business models for them - you can either accept or reject what they offer. The reason they&amp;#x27;re not on a subscription business model is probably because that wouldn&amp;#x27;t be sustainable for 99% of the sites you use.</text></comment>