Nerdgasm! This is great.

Dear Mr Masnick, thanks for commenting to clarify some things, but please don't put scary quotes around the surname Dabitch in the future. I was of course referring to our own system when I said 'switched off for logged in users', apologies if that wasn't clear.

These days banner ads aren't incredibly lucrative, just speculation in the case of your publication Techdirt of course, but the sad fact is that ad revenue has been going down for all types of publications for years now, bot traffic, adblockers and malware carries a lot of the blame for that as we discussed in Digital Media is a fraud. I for one find it very refreshing that instead of panicking like so many other publishers have done in the wake of ios9's new ad blocking ability, and blaming the consumers for protecting their privacy by using adblocks, Techdirt turns to their readers for continued support in creating content for their readers. I'm sincere when I say good luck, if it works out, it allows for Techdirt's autonomy in editorial content away from sponsors, native advertising and a desperate chasing of the click for revenue, which hopefully only makes your content better. Incidentally these were the very reasons we chose to not have ads for users who supported our publication so many years ago.

Thanks mate

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