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It is time for a classic episode. It's time for us to conclude a conversation.

We started with last week's classic episode.

This is called the problem with ads part two. It originally published on May 25th, 2016, and Ben Bolin joined the show to talk about the issues with ads because there are a lot of them.

And boy, howdy. We just get more and more issues as time goes on. I'll touch on that a little bit at the very end of this episode.

But yeah, I should probably ask Ben if he would like to do a second go at this topic.

Now that we're several years down the road and we have yet more ways for ads to be served and exploited since 2016.

But let's sit back and listen to this episode.

Not all people who design ad blockers necessarily feel great about it either. That's another element.

So we've got like the publishers, some of the publishers and authors admitting to the use of ad blockers despite the fact that their business model depends at least in part on advertising revenues.

That's complicated. But then you also have ad blockers who start to feel that perhaps what they're doing might be more might be doing more harm than good.

We have an example of this.

Marco Arment who created an ad blocker for the iOS store for the for iPhones.

It was one of several ad blocker apps that became available as soon as Apple allowed for that in the app store.

It's very popular. I got downloaded by a lot of people. It was a pay app so you had to actually purchase it.

And after essentially like a weekend of thinking about it, he began to reconsider the fact that he had made and made available this app and decided to remove it from the app store and offered refunds to anyone who had purchased it up to that point.

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