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Ad-blocking technology is finally taking off in the general population. In the US 15% of internet users have installed an ad-blocker, but among people born after 1980 the number is closer to 30%.
One American journalism startup thinks they have a business model that doesn't depend on advertising -- Low volume, high-quality, hyper-local investigative reporting intended to appeal to passionate citizens that are especially engaged in their community. Will it work? They claim to be close to achieving their budget targets after just a month of operation.
The startup is in Tulsa, about as far away as you can get from the stereotypical centers of innovation and journalism like Silicon Valley and New York City. Is the mainstream of internet development so addicted to advertising and Big Data profiling that they are unable to see opportunities that exist outside of their filter bubble?
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by anubi on Monday June 01 2015, @10:33AM
Jiminy! I am running an older version of FireFox with NoScript.
I pulled the page down and it seemed to load OK and let me see a few stories. It did not seem to deny me anything.
But I did as you said and viewed page source.
Jiminy! Right at 9,000 lines of source code for one page of display! And that was just the JavaScript.
However, the healthcare pages I am supposed to use don't work at all, and it looks like if I cannot sign up personally somewhere and avoid the computer altogether, I simply won't be getting any. I will have to wait for Medicare to kick in, as I have about a year to go on that. Maybe I can play the "stupid computer-illiterate old geezer" and get someone else to do whatever it takes to communicate with the Federal systems. I felt I knew a lot about TCP/IP and the like, but trying to find the hangups during a connection to a federal website, even using Wireshark, is an exercise of finding the needle in the haystack futility.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]