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The Atlantic has posted an interesting article on internet advertising calling it The Internet's Original Sin. Written by Ethan Zuckerman, who worked at Tripod during the birth of online ads, the article does a good job identifying the issues with relying on ads as the primary source of funding behind the internet. Ethan also speculates on some possible solutions to the problem—which mostly lean toward subscriptions as funding.
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Advertising: the Internet's Original Sin
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Horse With Stripes on Tuesday August 19 2014, @10:12AM
Do you mean "Are there any Firefox add-ons that make click fraud [wikipedia.org] even worse?" The advertisers get screwed with click fraud, not the site owners. Sure, enough fraudulent clicks will wreak havoc to some degree but putting the site out of business isn't your end goal, is it? If so why not just avoid the site and pretend that it doesn't exist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @02:01PM
That is exactly what I mean.
Not a tactic that should be used on a whim, because on a large enough scale it could reshape how the internet works. A lot of sites would shut down.
This is a trade off, because the ones that remain would be less concerned with turning a profit and more concerned with doing what they started out to do.