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ff_ on June 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the...

How is this different from paying for an adblocker? There is lots of good free ones.

I pay publishers I like for their content (buying newspapers, subscriptions, etc) and I don't get why Google should be the middleman in this.

ocdtrekkie on June 2, 2017 [–]

It's not that Google "should" be the middleman in this, it's that Google "wants" to be be the middleman in this, since you paying for a subscription directly cuts them out of that sweet ad revenue.

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