Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
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Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
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Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#2This initially sounds crazy and paradoxical, until you realize they'll surely be able to reach people who haven't yet installed AdBlock.
Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#3When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.
Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#4This initially sounds crazy and paradoxical, until you realize they'll surely be able to reach people who haven't yet installed AdBlock.
You're right! Not my first thought, I have to admit.
Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#5How dare they blight the web with hideous banner ads, I'm now going to go and install....oh.
Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#6To be effective, the adverts need to be the most obnoxious, loudest, gaudiest and intrusive designs possible :)
For extra points, they should flaunt their privacy invading features, e.g. follow you around on all the sites you visit, cheerfully reminding you about the places you've been and how all the other advertisers are recording this too.
Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#7If they are successful I imagine they will end up as a Yelp-style legal extortion business that is rent-seeking on advertisers.
Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#8I'm interested in knowing how they'll message the ad campaign.
Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#9I liked AdBlock up to that point. What are the alternatives?
Re: Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
#10This makes a perfect sense actually. They want as much people as possible to use the extension so that more advertisers are forced to pay to adblock itself to allow the ads through. The ethics on the other hand on such a moves are questionable, since it makes ordinary advertising either obsolete or makes adblock the bottleneck of it's effectiveness.