drsteve wrote:
delwhjr wrote:
T18skyguy wrote:
Adblock plus is now in bed with the advertisers(bought off). The best one out there is Ublock Origin.
If your talking about the Acceptable Ads Initiative, Ublock subscribes to it also.
This movement was created to hopefully prevent an all out restriction on sites if you use ad blockers. As has been noted previously on this thread, many sites will now prevent use of the site if you have an active ad blocker. The ads, whether you like it or not, is what keeps most of the web free and open. The initiative is a list of rules and guidelines about ads which is supposed to control the abusive practices that gave rise to the need for blockers. As with any voluntary program it doesn't always work the way we like.
It is a fact that ads are here to stay unless the web goes to pay for play everywhere. Which will be worse?
Advertisers pay when ads are viewed and/or clicked on, and they know how many times their ads are served, and they know when an ad blocker prevents it. If their ads are not seen or clicked, they don't pay.
I don't get how anyone thought wholesale ad blocking was going to continue being allowed, given that advertising pays for the content, the servers, and the bandwidth, among other things.
I understand that ads pay the bills, but I often wonder how effective are those ads? When's the last time any of us bought something because we saw an internet ad? I haven't that I can remember. I have also heard of companies slashing their advertising budget because it's just not effective. I'm more apt to buy from word of mouth from guys like you, or not buy from word of mouth. If someone has a good product, it sells itself in a lot of ways. On a related note, Google was in the process of employing code to detect and defeat ad blockers on Chrome, but they backed out of it, cause you can block everything you want on Firefox. Google doesn't want to lose any market share.
