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  • I am with you regarding the big ones. But what about smaller media outlets and journalists to try to make a living on their own ? We need them. More then the big ones. Then the solution is to just ignore all the big ones and read the smaller ones. With ads or paying for it.



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    3 days ago

    We didn’t care. We were the hosting provider nor the news outlets. But we had close contact to our customers. And a lot of the smaller customers had a hard time to even survive. The primary source of income was print until paywals came around. Some customers never had print and had to close down with the surge of ad blockers


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    That is true and false. Adblock plus takes money for the acceptable afs program, yes. But there are clear guidelines about the ads. Containing criteria for privacy, size in relation to content and more.

    I work in IT for 20 years now. Half this time my salary was paid for by ads:

    My company hosted big german news outlets. All money they made online was from ads.

    More adblockers meant less income so their required more ads just to come out without losing money.

    ABP tried to break this cycle.

    Now we are having paywals, and paywal breakers. And at this point this is outright stealing.

    If adblockers would allow ads that adhere to the acceptable ads criteria, the world would be a better place. Less paywals, less ads and maybe some companies would pay their employees a little bit more.



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    3 months ago

    AVM ist schon lange überteuert und Schrott. Mit einem billigen 30€ amazon Modem und der Box im LAN Mode habe wir an unserem alten Anschluss vor ein paar Monaten gute 20% mehr Durchsatz. An der selben DSL Leitung.

    Management ist ein kraus geworden und die Verarbeitung, nunja.

    Wer kann: unifi + Modem.