On: Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall...

[hueving]

Or we can stop showing paywalled links to people and not support this crap as a community.

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It's either this or ads, and ads don't work anymore because people use adblock.

[hueving → guipsp]

Most people don't use adblock and the ones that do weren't clicking on ads to start with.

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This site has a graph that say 55% of visitors to gaming sites use adblock http://contently.com/strategist/2015/07/10/why-adblockers-sh... . I would assume hacker news visitors would have a similar number. That would be an interesting thing to measure. Someone who gets to the front page of HN should measure what percent of people with a HN referer block ads.

And many ads are paid per view, not per click.