Community filtering

The Floating Atol weblog announces the death of unwanted advertising. A distributed system allows users to flag all unwanted advertising (ad-spam), whether they are banners, comments, weblog entries, etc. This flag is distributed to other users and their client software kills the ads.

This certainly will kill the advertising model. I wonder whether there will be any genuine advertising left. Are there ads that might interest me? Or can I live in an add-free world?

update: Floating Atol translated this as “Blueblog wonders: can I live in spam-free world”. I must clarify: I certainly can live without spam. I never react on spam and I never click on ads. So this kind of advertising is useless to me. I however do like to the lastest news on for instance software. My RSS-feeds suffice for that. I howver extrapolated Floating Atol’s comment to include all advertising. not just spam.