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If Crystal gave an option to "allow high-quality ads" and then that list of high-quality ads was curated carefully in the users' interests, it could make sense.

But as soon as people start paying to be included on that list, it's not a list of high-quality ads, it's a list of people that have paid you money that you have decided meet some minimum bar (that you have incentives to keep low).



Yeah, shame - as the leading ad blocker, he could've instead set a de facto standard for respectful ads. Maybe the Deck itself should make this.

Make it opt-in, and it's like the micropayments future we were promised.




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