Chrome to Start Charging You in 2018

It is what it is, and it will be what it will be be. Our world is forcing us to be 100% dependent on internet usage. But in all reality, it is still possible to survive without using the internet at all. I can be done. So, if you use the internet, you get what comes with it!

darsben1 wrote:
If you block ad's the publishers of websites for news, entertainment, etc get no revenue and then what.

You are only seeing/telling part of the story.
(And your second post didn't change that fact either.)

I too saw no need for an ad blocker until two things happened:
First, many of the ads are "pass through"; that is the site owner gives somebody else permission to imbed links into it's content and change those links and their content at will. This is a HUGE SECURITY HOLE.

Secondly, "they" killed the goose that laid the advertising egg by not putting a reasonable limit on the number of ads that are served up.

I spent **** near a week trying to figure out why my Internet connection was getting slower and slower. When the pattern finally emerged, it was because of the BLOAT caused by multiple ads.....that were coming from other sites and those sites were slow. I can now replicate that problem pretty much at will by turning off my AdBlocker. Some sites I visit allow more than 30 foreign elements to load with EVERY PAGE that displays.

I do not feel sorry for those folks AT ALL.
When they assure me that there is some security screening on the pass through ads AND they agree to limit them to something reasonable AND sever their agreement with companies that are chronically slow.....then I will remove my ad blocking software; not before.

Also note that pages that contain ads that are an actual part of the site you are connected to are generally not a problem and won't be touched by "ad blockers".

The internet started out as a tool for researchers to share data between universities, but as if often the case, has turned into a massive advertising media and a minor secondary research tool.

AND, more importantly, I believe most of the ads are wasted, and upset most web users. I know exactly how and where to get what I need, and no amount of prompting that interferes with my browsing will make me quickly jump over and buy something I don't need. I'm thinking most of you are of the same thinking.

Forcing me to look at an ad while I'm researching something else will more often make me buy a competitor instead when that time comes.

I've even noticed already that many sites open a window and say: You're using an ad blocker. Please turn it off to access our site.

Wow! Some of you Chrome fanboys sure get butt hurt when anything is mentioned that you feel needs defending.
Most of the ads are pure spam. And yes I did work for free.

Sorry I posted it.

Sent from my Chrome browser.

I bailed out of CHROME just last year. I liked it pretty good when I bailed away from the high data user Internet Explorer... Also haven't come to use any of the CLOUD things yet... They scare the H out of me haha Anyway last year I stared getting some virus's from Chrome and their ads so I closed it out.

Today I am using FIREFOX for most of my internet programs and some using the WIN10 EDGE which seems to not get bogged down any memory wise... WIN10 has my Internet Radio programs and their real good CARD GAME... Also I just recently started using the WIN10 'MY RADAR' program which has turned to be a real jewel of a WX program... It auto refreshes where all of the others just quit waiting for you to refresh it... Try that one out if you haven't looked at it yet... It looks great on my 24-inch monitor here compared to Intellicast or Weather Underground... IT has what they call a morph mode where everything grows and dies in a nice real like motion on screen.

When they start charging I usually find something else to use...

Roy Ken

az99 wrote:

darsben1 wrote:

az99 wrote:
Looks like Chrome will soon be my former web browser.No way I will buy into this BS.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/01/google-confirms-ad-blocker-coming-to-chrome-in-2018.html

Please reread the article you posted. Then come up with a means to generate revenue for the companies that are out to make a profit. If you block ad's the publishers of websites for news, entertainment, etc get no revenue and then what.

I did read it. What part did you not see about pay?

"visits a participating site using Chrome, they will see a prompt that asks them to either turn off their ad blocker, or "pay for a pass that removes all ads on that site through the new Google Contributor." If they choose to pay the fee, Google will take a 10 percent cut. If they select neither choice, they won't be able to view the website.

So the website will block you if you use an ad blocker to stop ad's or you can pay a fee to have an ad free experience. It will be up to the website to decide if they want to do it. If you choose not to turn off your blocker you will not be able to view THEIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY which cost something to produce; or you can pay a fee to avoid the ads.
Did you work for free or did you expect to be paid for your output?

So the choice will be, see the ad's with no fee or pay for the privilege of an ad free experience.

sch911 wrote:
None of this nonsense will be mandatory. So the title of the post is very misleading! Why is that, you don't like Google?

I do like Chrome. Where do you see that it won't be mandatory?
I was just passing along an article from CNBC that seemed relevant to discussions on this forum.

az99, it looks like all the ad based browsers are going free with ads and paid ad free at this time. No collaboration between them, NOT. All seem about the same cost and have the same features and I'm ready.

I looked for something on line and before I finished, 3,782,996 ads appeared all over the screen from yahoo. Tried Google to search, same results, mostly different ads but same subject. I had made my decision but, but they bombarded me with useless ads anyway.

I think I'll go to the paid version.

darsben1 wrote:

az99 wrote:
Looks like Chrome will soon be my former web browser.No way I will buy into this BS.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/01/google-confirms-ad-blocker-coming-to-chrome-in-2018.html

Please reread the article you posted. Then come up with a means to generate revenue for the companies that are out to make a profit. If you block ad's the publishers of websites for news, entertainment, etc get no revenue and then what.

I did read it. What part did you not see about pay?

"visits a participating site using Chrome, they will see a prompt that asks them to either turn off their ad blocker, or "pay for a pass that removes all ads on that site through the new Google Contributor." If they choose to pay the fee, Google will take a 10 percent cut. If they select neither choice, they won't be able to view the website.

We're fulltimers may spend two or three days at a location then we're down the road. What I love about Chrome is I get Ads from the places we were 2 weeks ago.