The Perl nexus to this node is pretty thin... I could just as well suggest that we stage boycotts of motor vehicles to protest high gas prices and "build Perl tools around them."

However, the relevant issues here are economics, business (mores || ethics || practices) and human nature.

Which funding source (aka "advertiser") will support (aka "buy advertising") the internet if their ads are filtered out so that we see chiefly (only?) the content we want? Which of us will routinely seek out advertisements for products we (are unaware of || don't care about)?

And re your hope "that we can separate actual content from advertisements," we can: we just have to use our powers of discrimination (and maybe enhance our search-fu) rather than hope someone (our new masters?) will do it for us.

In reply to Re: The Web is Set Up All Wrong by ww
in thread The Web is Set Up All Wrong by InfiniteSilence

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