New app kills online ads by buying banner space & substituting pretty pictures
 

Several years ago, the world suddenly woke up to ads being plastered all over its internet browsers, as companies looked for new ways to make a buck. But now, one app says – “No more!” and offers to substitute them for pictures instead.
Along comes ‘Adieu’ – the aptly named app from Fair Tread, a company that wants to give some semblance of online control back to the user. Don’t want a reminder about an expensive Caribbean vacation when you’re cash-strapped and breaking your back at work? Don’t care about online trading, or taking personality surveys? Or discovering which celebrities have had plastic surgery?

Adieu’s solution is nice and simple: it lets you block annoying banners with photos and pictures of your choice. It offers to do this for a fee of $5 per 500 ad blocks, and will attempt to block as many ads as possible. The page says “by using Adieu, you’re contributing to a fair internet that rewards good content.”

New app kills online ads by buying banner space & substituting pretty pictures — RT USA

That would be much more convenient than having to constantly move these yellow post-it notes around my laptop monitor.

Not sure how many people would pay that as everyone cheap fuck. :2 cents:

:1orglaugh

Commenters on that article seem to be missing the point - this is getting rid of visual clutter but still 'rewarding' the site you're viewing by bidding on the ads they show. Using an ad blocker kills all revenue for the site.

Going to be a hard sell when people can just use a free app that gets rid of crap on websites.