A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone, while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.

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    How about instead of shakedown laws we pass some laws about malicious advertising online? People are less likely to block ads when the ads are not actively trying to fuck over their device.

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      I agree. Like right to repair laws. There should be laws that give people a right to opt out of all advertising online.

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        Right to repair is a huge issue that most people totally ignore, it’s frustrating. However you can’t ban advertising online. it’s how operators pay for their servers. Either every site that provides a service has a subscription model or runs ads.

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          Or relies on donations, or relies on grants, or sells merchandise. All, along with subscriptions, are preferable to ads, which should be outlawed.

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          You can ban it. Its not my problem how they pay. Nobody asked them to take over the internet and turn ever pixel into an ad. Ban ads, these sites die and we get back the real internet.

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            You know someone has to pay for websites right? Like If no one donated to Wikipedia they would not exist. If you want to get back to “The Real Internet” you are going to have to start hosting all your own images, blog posts, e-mail server…

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              Taking away advertising doesn’t take that away. It just means websites no longer free load by wasting our free time.

              If you want to get back to “The Real Internet” you are going to have to start hosting all your own images, blog posts, e-mail server

              No, you wouldn’t. But also not a terrible idea. We don’t need 90% of the content online. We need most of it scrubbed.