This is unfortunate. It is not the obtrusive ads I find most annoying, those I can filter out mentally with no difficulty. It is the non-obtrusive ads that masquerade as content that I dislike.
AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
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Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#92I asked the author to know if this would be a source of revenues for Adblock, and why they did make this a default choice rather than a yes/no question: 1) Does AdBlock developers get, directly or indirectly, any benefits from a third party because of this change? (Including, but not exclusively, money/donation/jobs/whatever by an entity supported by ads like Google, continued inclusion in the Chrome store, etc.)? Or…
> We made some bad experience when asking people to make a decision, quite frequently people would ignore the question on the first-run page for one reason or another and then wonder why Adblock Plus "isn't working"
...sooo, instead you default a feature that WILL make people go "it isn't working!!!", really?
I am sorry, this is way too much polit-speak and shows that they have just become too big, too popular. But this should change sooner or later now.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
* It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users. * It's trivial to get around. Other options would be for webmasters to give Adblocking users a watered down version or just serve them up crapply encoded videos/images etc If adblock ever became popular, webmasters would quickly work around it, and you'd have an arms race, with the webmasters winning. * Adblock probably blocks 50% of adverts. The other 50% people d…
It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users. The problem is that this 1% aren't evenly distributed -- some websites are inevitably going to have more Adblock users than others, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that some large sites (reddit?) are hitting 20%. It's trivial to get around. Being hostile to their users/customers doesn't seem to be working all that well for the music industry, and just adds to a g…
Very true, but IMHO That was Reddits own making. Had they put up advertising at the start, they wouldn't be stuck with such an anti-corporate non-marketable audience.
I don't think you can compare to the music industry. Blocking all 'advertising', regardless of whether it's intrusive, useful, etc, is a stupid and naive move by adblock users. Not to mention bad for the free open internet. Thankfully though most people agree that blocking all advertising is not the way forward.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#94This sounds like a good change to me.
As someone who never run Adblock for the past two years, I can't see how is this a big deal. IMHO, if what you want is a distraction-free reading, Readability/Reader is the answer. Maybe it's because the kind of sites I often visits, but situation on ads has improved a lot in the past few years.
I've clicked a lot of ads in the past year, some even led me to actually purchase something. Recent ones I can recalled from memory are Parallels Desktop $20 off deal (bought second license for my notebook), GraphicRiver's bundle pack (which led me to know the site and bought a ton more stuff from GR) and few books via Amazon affiliate links.
Apart from privacy concern, I can't see why someone always think ads are evil.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is that AdBlock Plus is becoming popular. Advertisers are noticing it too. And it will become a whac-a-mole game, in which advertisers will come up with creative ways to get around ADP or publishers will just block users with ADP enabled, or just setup a paywall. We are indeed tired of intrusive advertising. But some websites are good citizens and shouldn't be punished for the mistakes of others. It would…
* It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users. * It's trivial to get around. Other options would be for webmasters to give Adblocking users a watered down version or just serve them up crapply encoded videos/images etc If adblock ever became popular, webmasters would quickly work around it, and you'd have an arms race, with the webmasters winning. * Adblock probably blocks 50% of adverts. The other 50% people d…
It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users
One percent of whose users? That fails to account for the audiences of specific websites. If it's 1% for all browser users, I bet you that tech related websites are seeing much, much larger percentages.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
"It won't be long until someone creates a version that blocks all ads again by default." This version will still be able to block all ads. By does it matter if it's by default?
Because the vast majority of people never stray from defaults, and will think that it's just bad at doing it's job.
Does that really apply to most ABP users?
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#97Who decides which adverts are "considered not annoying" ?
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is that AdBlock Plus is becoming popular. Advertisers are noticing it too. And it will become a whac-a-mole game, in which advertisers will come up with creative ways to get around ADP or publishers will just block users with ADP enabled, or just setup a paywall. We are indeed tired of intrusive advertising. But some websites are good citizens and shouldn't be punished for the mistakes of others. It would…
* It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users. * It's trivial to get around. Other options would be for webmasters to give Adblocking users a watered down version or just serve them up crapply encoded videos/images etc If adblock ever became popular, webmasters would quickly work around it, and you'd have an arms race, with the webmasters winning. * Adblock probably blocks 50% of adverts. The other 50% people d…
Ok, where are your references for these statements?
I'm especially dubious of the 50% figure.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I think it is clear he made a deal with Google, with or without monetary compensation I do not know. Please slap me with proof that I'm wrong, I so wish to be wrong.
Guilty unless proven innocent? Google's text ads certainly aren't intrusive.
I thought about that before commenting. And yes I was being unfair to him.
But still I stand by previous comment, it needs to be said and from his blog entry and reply to inquiry in the comments section, the collaboration between him and ad providers is clearly implied and if true, conflict of interests is a glaring problem.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I think it is clear he made a deal with Google, with or without monetary compensation I do not know. Please slap me with proof that I'm wrong, I so wish to be wrong.
Guilty unless proven innocent? Google's text ads certainly aren't intrusive.
Depends on their content:
An ad for a local garage? Fine. But I would class "Mom discovers new TEETH WHITENING solution! Don't listen to your DENTIST! CLICK HERE TODAY!" to be pretty distracting and intrusive.