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Why don't more publishers try to detect the ad blockers with stuff like this? https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock And then they could throw up a page that says "Sorry, AdBlock must be disabled to view this content"
Another possibility is that people will learn to care about what they read, and learn that it costs something. We don't have to tip, either. Also, I'm sorry, but I'm never going to login to Facebook to read the Economist, and I stopped using Twitter's mobile app when they introduced sponsored content.
And in Australia, we don't.
I don't run ad blocker since 2009. I just got that good at ignoring ads. F12 + delete offending element works wonders for the most annoying stuff. And there are always hosts files.
I use an ad blocker now. Too many abuses of my willingness to let the publishers show me ads and I eventually just got sick of it. Where the line was crossed for me included:
- Videos (or audio) autoplaying over the top of my own music; especially when they're in some other tab, halfway down the page, forcing me to go hunting to figure out where the sound was coming from
- Links commandeered by popup launchers; especially when they cancel the original click, or load my link in a new tab and override the current tab with the ad popup, which often resulted in me accidentally leaving the ad tab open while I closed the tab I actually wanted.
- Hover ads that activate because I was careless enough to not pay precise attention to the location of my mouse pointer
- Page content scroll positions jerking up and down as ads appear or disappear (usually just the former)
- Overlay ads appearing on top of content I'm trying to read, and in particular those which make the close button either hard to see, unresponsive when clicked, or which respond as though I've clicked the ad itself
- Content that just won't display because it's blocked by ad resources that have stalled while loading
And so forth. I'll stand up for publisher's rights, but only to a point. Eventually the noise and bad behaviour just becomes too much.
Why don't more publishers try to detect the ad blockers with stuff like this? https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock And then they could throw up a page that says "Sorry, AdBlock must be disabled to view this content"
Why don't more publishers try to detect the ad blockers with stuff like this? https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock And then they could throw up a page that says "Sorry, AdBlock must be disabled to view this content"
Because you can block adblock killers with adblock. So what's the point?
Why don't more publishers try to detect the ad blockers with stuff like this? https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock And then they could throw up a page that says "Sorry, AdBlock must be disabled to view this content"
Ad blockers could become smarter in return.
Why don't more publishers try to detect the ad blockers with stuff like this? https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock And then they could throw up a page that says "Sorry, AdBlock must be disabled to view this content"
About a year or so ago, my dad called me out of the blue and told me that my mom was crying because "internet ads were following her and making her anxious". Earlier that day, she came from a doctor and ended up searching for a medical condition on a famous search website. After that, she started seeing ads for various bullshit remedies all across the internet. Almost every website she visited, showed her same types…