Disrupting the Advertising Industry, TPB Founder

[Ink]

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https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-aims-to-disrupt-online-advertisement-industry-160503/

"After disrupting the entertainment industry with The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde now hopes to do the same with the advertisement business. Today, Sunde's micropayment service Flattr teamed up with Adblock Plus, offering publishers a way to get paid without having to show annoying ads."

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"Today we’re pleased to announce Flattr Plus, a new product that will allow you to easily and automatically fund the artists, bloggers and musicians you love. Flattr Plus is a joint project with Flattr and it will revolutionize web monetization.

You can sign up for the Flattr Plus beta today at flattrplus.com. You’ll be able to start testing that at end of the month, and we will launch the complete version at year’s end.

As we’ve written many times before, Acceptable Ads was a conscious pivot away from blocking all the things toward finding a way to block only the annoying things, so publishers can monetize on users’ terms. That was 2011. Since then we’ve been trying to figure out an ad-less way for users to fund content, because, well, we felt like it was the right thing to do."
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ABP Blog: Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Flattr Plus

 

[bunchuu]

So, basically they block other ads and shows only their ads?

 

[hjlbx]

All ads are annoying. If I want something, then I can find it on the internet. I don't need ads - and especially not consuming webpage areas. Besides, the ad delivery servers are a legitimately serious security risk.

The concept of acceptable ads is bull dung...

 

[DoxThis]

Well to play the devil's advocated @hjlbx , would CloudFlare and other pioneering companies be so huge without the help of advertising such as LulzSec and FoxNews (Hosting ISIS websites if you want to search for the ytube vid), and so secure due to the insane amount of websites that use it? Probably not unless you were searching hard for it.

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Ok, let me get this straight: Peter Sunde=Founder of TPB=Wants me to patronize a project hes part of designing which will involve using my PayPal or CC Info for purchases ?
No thank you Peter Sunde, oh let me be more clear "No way in hell"
Awesome share Huracan
PeAcE

 

[Jack]

After revolutionizing online piracy by co-founding The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde's other project, the tipping service Flattr, seems set to upend online advertising as well.

Two days ago, in a joint press release, Flattr and Adblock Plus, the world's most popular ad blocker, announced a partnership that would allow website owners to get paid, even if users block ads inside their browsers.

Users who block ads can still reward their favorite sites
The new service, called Flattr Plus, will rely on Adblock Plus adding Flattr buttons on websites where users block ads. If the user likes the site's content, they can click the Flattr button.

This process also relies on users having Flattr accounts and depositing a sum of money in each account at the start of each month.

The way Flattr Plus works is by calculating all the websites the user has rewarded with the press of the Flattr button, and at the end of the month, it divides the user's deposit amongst all sites. The sum of money each site receives depends on the number of pages the user clicked the on each domain.

Flattr and Adblock Plus keep ten percent
Flattr Plus will launch in the upcoming months, and Flattr and Adblock Plus will take a ten percent cut of all the money tipped/donated through the service.

Website owners who want to monetize the portion of their userbase that uses ad blockers only need to sign up for a publisher account.

Sunde's new service wants to provide an alternative to the classic and nowadays very intrusive advertising model that has annoyed so many users.

Read more: Pirate Bay Founder's Tipping Service May Drive Final Nail in Online Advertising

 

[DJ Panda]

I will just continue without an adblocker. I have google adsense to security software ads. Malwarebytes ads galore.

 

[hjlbx]

I'm sorry, but I am not rewarding any website for ads. I don't want ads -- ever. I remember when the net was essentially ad-free. It was a much better user experience.

 

[jamescv7]

Its like you are doing something right but conscious on other way, so you need to follow the flow.

A typical example for Adblock Plus where they are easily convince to lease some restrictions where privacy and other stuffs may compromise on the other hand.