We need to save online journalism from ad blocking – and here's how
So what to do? How can a business model be found that will make journalism pay? Is there anything that can save this noble trade?

Bizarrely, the solution to this problem has already been invented. Six years ago. By one of the last people you’d expect to have an interest in paying people for their work.

Meanwhile, over at Wired:



Can't do a thing to read the article unless I whitelist them, it appears.

Or just get your information from a site that isn't run by dicks. The problem any site that puts it's content behind a wall has is that there are a myriad of alternatives that don't.

Ad Blocker-Blocking Websites Might Be Violating European Privacy Laws

The ad-blocking wars are getting ugly again.

In the latest phase of the conflict, several high-traffic websites have started denying entry to users whenever they detect their browsers running ad-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus. These new ad-blocker-blocking scripts typically present offending readers with a choice: Either disable your blockers by whitelisting the site, or pay a small subscription fee to help keep the lights on.

But that might not fly in Europe, where using these detection scripts could be a violation of local privacy laws, according to a letter from the European Commission.

Under European law, websites are required to get users' consent before they can send you cookies, the tiny blobs of data that live in your browser and allow sites to recognize and target you with ads. The letter suggests that since the law's scope isn't limited to cookies, scripts that scan your browser looking for ad-blocking extensions without consent might be verboten too.

Just run an Ad-blocker-blocker-blocker.