Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
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Re: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
#2"Whomever you think is to blame for the sorry state of Web browsing, content blockers have a kind of ratcheting effect: Once you turn one on, chances are you won't see the kind of high-quality ads that might convince you to turn it off again. It also involves the risk that you'll miss whatever advertisers or publishers come up with to make the Web better again.", said no one ever.
Re: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
#3"Whomever you think is to blame for the sorry state of Web browsing, content blockers have a kind of ratcheting effect: Once you turn one on, chances are you won't see the kind of high-quality ads that might convince you to turn it off again. It also involves the risk that you'll miss whatever advertisers or publishers come up with to make the Web better again.", said no one ever.
Eh. I noticed web ads got a lot worse exactly when Mozilla started shipping Firefox with a pop-up blocker enabled by default. Not saying it justifies anything, just that the immediate effect is real.
Re: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
#4The whole current conversation about this is weird. Why are people acting like ad blockers are new when iOS, a mobile platform with a small market share, stops banning them and gets back in line with everyone else?
Re: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
#5WashingtonPost.com serves many ads and consumes too much memory resources - thanks for crashing my Safari (iPad) while reading the article, a very unnerving moment.
I still have no Safari adblocker installed, as I believe in ads. But such bad ads citizens needs a disruption ala Google text-based Ads 10 years ago that changed the ads landscape.
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#6There is no ethical dilemma on the user side. No web user guarantees making any particular request, and no one is owed the viability of a business model.
The ethics of defending the descent of the ad system into such destructive behavior is an interesting discussion, perhaps.
Re: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
#7"Whomever you think is to blame for the sorry state of Web browsing, content blockers have a kind of ratcheting effect: Once you turn one on, chances are you won't see the kind of high-quality ads that might convince you to turn it off again. It also involves the risk that you'll miss whatever advertisers or publishers come up with to make the Web better again.", said no one ever.
Yeah. I'd attach many adjectives to the ads I've seen over the years, but "high-quality" is not one of them.
Re: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
#8Advertising is a cancer.
Re: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
#9Why is there no opt-in ad blocker? "eff these guys i'm blocking their ads." Or like if your resources go over some threshold they get blocked?
I want to punish bad actors, not all.
Re: Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
#10The freedom to run what software one wills has priority over the wishes of the website that their ads be viewed.
Viewing ads is then, not a payment, but a donation. And it is generally one that I am willing to make. But I reserve the right to block whatever ads I choose, provided that I have not agreed to do otherwise.
Note:the freedom to run what software one wills does not have priority over everything. I am only talking about this thing.