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The WSJ cracked the adblocking code

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1 points by vladiim 10 years ago · 2 comments

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stephengillie 10 years ago

This article reads like a "submarine article" for one of the WSJ's articles. Is this a future for journalism - use an article-as-advertisement to promote your articles?

  • jerf 10 years ago

    Use your article-as-advertisement to promote your advertisement-as-article, then rake in the pageviews from your long series of introspective articles asking exactly where the line between those two things is, neatly anchoring the debate in a way that helps you avoid considering the possibility that the very fact we're debating that encompasses acceptance of the advertising either way, and drawing readers away from the question of whether perhaps the whole site itself fits under one of those categories....

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