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		avereveard on Feb 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Stack Overflow Doesn’t Care About Ad Blockers Even on paper magazines people were fed up and pushing back some time ago, I remember seeing 'this magazine is less than 50%'ads' or the like as a pride point, so at some point salesmen thought that was a good enough differentiator

greggman on Feb 10, 2016 [–]

Back before the Internet (browsers) a big reason I bought/subscribed to magazines was for the ads. That was how I found out about most new products.

Today I rarely find out about anything from ads. Instead I find out from sites like HN, slashdot, etc or from social network connections and groups

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