I'd also like to be able put any ad that doubles+ the load time of a page in a penalty box for a day.
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
#122It is unfortunate that many people commenting here didn't bother to RTFA. In particular, from the FAQ: Are you stupid? Nobody wants this! The results of our user survey say something different. Only 25% of the Adblock Plus users seem to be strictly against any advertising. They will disable this feature and that's fine. The other users replied that they would accept some kinds of advertising to help websites. Some us…
I've "read the fucking article", and my take-away is that Wladmir is, in effect, selling ads.
In return for some sort of consideration and a pledge to only provide "acceptable" advertising, Wladmir will unblock your ads by default in AdBlock Plus:
> We have agreements with some websites and advertisers that only advertising matching our criteria will be used, their ads will be unblocked then. We hope to grow our list significantly over time.
Given that selling advertisements runs entirely contrary to the purpose of "Adblock", and that Wladimir's incentives are now inversely aligned with the user's incentives, I imagine we're going to see the same descent into increasingly obtrusive advertising that you almost always see once an organization heads down this path.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#123How are those 'non-intrusive ads' selected? Is there a global white list, which is maintained by the author? Just recently I had this idea that there should be a independent organization or work group which maintains this kind of white list, and websites would gain a badge if their ads are non-intrusive and polite. There would also be an agreed standard which all ads should comply to gain the badge. This way it would…
I decided to dig up the whitelist to see who has already been unblocked:
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...
All German sites and then... Sedo..
Edit: and it would have helped for me to read further down; someone has already posted this!
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#124For all the people complaining: this will encourage websites to use less annoying ads.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#125How are those 'non-intrusive ads' selected? Is there a global white list, which is maintained by the author? Just recently I had this idea that there should be a independent organization or work group which maintains this kind of white list, and websites would gain a badge if their ads are non-intrusive and polite. There would also be an agreed standard which all ads should comply to gain the badge. This way it would…
From https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads :
* Static advertisements only (no animations, sounds or similar)
* Preferably text only, no attention-grabbing images
* At most one script that will delay page load (in particular, only a single DNS request)
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#126It is unfortunate that many people commenting here didn't bother to RTFA. In particular, from the FAQ: Are you stupid? Nobody wants this! The results of our user survey say something different. Only 25% of the Adblock Plus users seem to be strictly against any advertising. They will disable this feature and that's fine. The other users replied that they would accept some kinds of advertising to help websites. Some us…
I've "read the fucking article", and my take-away is that Wladmir is, in effect, selling ads. In return for some sort of consideration and a pledge to only provide "acceptable" advertising, Wladmir will unblock your ads by default in AdBlock Plus: > We have agreements with some websites and advertisers that only advertising matching our criteria will be used, their ads will be unblocked then. We hope to grow our list…
I'd be really interested in knowing whether Wladmir benefits financially from these agreements.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#127Good work & excellent timing. I've been relying on Flashblock to disable the most intrusive ads, but Apple's success in killing off Flash has meant that non-Flash ads are getting more intrusive. I will be installing ASAP.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#128I'd also like to be able put any ad that doubles+ the load time of a page in a penalty box for a day.
if they're doing what they're saying they're doing (only one DNS request allowed) your concerns will be met by this product. most modern display ads use many, many more than that.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#129I use AdBlock on Chrome (which is fine, coincidentally). When it's installed, you get one question: do you want Google's text-only ads. This is less broad than what AdBlock Plus is suggesting, but it's of similar intent. It works. I have no complaints at all. If I ever want to block those ads, I can just check a checkbox. If AdBlock Plus also offered a choice when installed (I don't know if it does now), it would not…
A footnote: AdBlock for Chrome is a completely different project created by Michael Gundlach (who also created AdBlock for Safari). I happen to know that he doesn't have any deal with advertisers; he just thinks that users should be able to allow non-annoying ads to be shown.
Re: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
#130anyone who is using AdBlock, will be changing that option right away...and since this is obviously a money grab, you can bet that option gets turned on every time they release a new update
"you can bet that option gets turned on every time they release a new update"
That's a rather unfair assumption.