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thinkbohemian on March 6, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advertising is devastating to my well-being

What if someone made a browser plugin where every time an you visited a website it gave that website 1/1000th of a cent (and took 1/1000th of a cent out of your paypal/google-checkout/etc. account), and in exchange that website saw the plugin and served you a version with no ads. How many people would choose to use this plugin?

gizmo on March 7, 2010 [–]

I would.

Of course, every website in the world would have to support it and micropayments don't work, so... it's not realistic.

thinkbohemian on March 7, 2010 | [–]

You don't have to get every website to support it, just the big name advertisers. If the money went straight to adwords... that covers 80% of web real estate.

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