“Google has unveiled a project that offers web users the option to pay to visit sites rather than see adverts,” BBC News reports.
“Dubbed Contributor, website creators choose a monthly subscription fee of between $1 to $3,” The Beeb reports. “When users who have paid their subscriptions visit the site they will see pixelated patterns replacing the adverts. It has so far signed up a handful of websites, including ScienceDaily and Urban Dictionary, to test the system.”
“A portion of the money goes to Google and a portion to the website,” The Beeb reports. “A service called Readability tried something similar to Contributor but shut down in 2012.”
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“A service called Readability tried something similar to Contributor but shut down in 2012.”
Says it all, doesn’t it?
Um. No Thank You.
Yeah, they should call that service “Google Extortion.” If anyone out there doubts that Google is evil, clue them into this little jewel.
Or…just use Ad Block 😉
Or just use Safari’s Reader View.
That just perpetuates the issue. Running a website isn’t free. You should not block ads on sites you frequent.
You’re kidding? Right? Right?
The first word in the story is warning enough. “Google”.
Then, swallow your bile and keep reading to find out what they are up to next. Historically, you know what that is.
Another $10 billion down the drain and profit from web ads just keep shrinking. This is the recipe for another Enron-style corporate catastrophe
Google is also launching a new internet crowd-sourced venture called ‘give us a clue because we ain’t got one’
Or GUACBWAGO for short.
Is there avocado in that?
Hmm… I wonder when this will come to Youtube…
This is so stupid… Trying to “premiumize” the web. Oooooohhh I will pay $3 to visit Wikipedia, with no adds… Or how about this, $3 to blur out all the crap on MDN’s website. Worst bunch of ugly faces I ever seen.
Nah, not worth my time. Just ignore it all. I just wonder how Adblade injects all their junk on rather reputable web sites that have their own ads.
Read what MacNut wrote.
just more proof that Google doesn’t understand its customer base.
Since google search became “pay your way to the top”, no one uses Google products because they’re good products. They use them because they’re free.
Glimmerblocker is the best ad block and little snitch is the best google blocker.
No thank you.
So you have to pay and yet Google still tracks you..
Only muppets apply please.