Whitelist Verified News Sources
In an age of declining readership and advertising revenue, newspapers are struggling to stay afloat as they compete with bogus 'news' sites and a combative anti-news culture.
Newspapers are a valuable source of information, especially on the local level.
I would like there to be an exception list of official newspapers that are automatically whitelisted. The Alliance for Audited Media has a running list of verified news sources from which you can pull.
I do not like ads, and I have been a subscriber to adblock since 2009. However, since seeing ads is the price of valuable journalism (as it has been since the 1800s) then I am game.
-Kevin
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your suggestion. I think it's a terrific idea. Do you have a link to that list? I wasn't able to find it on the AAM site.
Warm regards,
Rhana Cassidy
AdBlock Community Manager
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I sense a question about Filter Lists.
Hi there Kevin, I'm blastoise186. While I'm not part of the AdBlock Team, I am a regular on the forums. My answers can't be "official" as such, but they can still be helpful.
I might have found some insight on this, but it only solves half the puzzle I'm afraid.
A quick search on their website later and I dug up this Knowledgebase Article as well as this one from their support pages. While it would probably be pretty easy for someone to turn this kind of data into an AdBlock Filter List and there's some info on how that works here, I'm not sure whether AAM would charge for access to their data just for the purposes of grabbing a list of titles - that might need some more detective work.
I do indeed agree with the idea and I think the easiest way to implement it would be as a "new" Filter List for which users could turn on or off as they choose.
The reasons I think that would work better are:
Hi Matthew and Kevin,
I think your suggestions are good, Matthew. I've passed them on to our team. I'll post any replies here. :)
Warm regards,
Rhana Cassidy
AdBlock Community Manager