Reply to post: The next sorta-killer app

Dry those eyes, ad blockers are unlikely to kill the internet

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The next sorta-killer app

I suspect there's market out there for a way of allowing people to avoid advertising by making micro-payments to outbid the advertisers.

For example, upon visiting El Reg, this killer app would find out how much advertisers are paying for a page worth of adds on El Reg and then allow the visitor to pay a teensy bit more than that directly to El Reg to get the page without any adds.

The site visitor is happy because they avoid adds while keeping the website in business. The site is happy because they're a little richer than they'd otherwise be. And the spurned advertiser can go burn in the hell from whence they were spawned.

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