The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com
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#2well nkurz pull the plug before it is too late. ads suck, no one ever wants to look at them.
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#3well nkurz pull the plug before it is too late. ads suck, no one ever wants to look at them.
But we want to read their reviews and participate in their forums.
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#4well nkurz pull the plug before it is too late. ads suck, no one ever wants to look at them.
Eh, a better approach is probably to just detect adblock and put up a "please don't use adblock/donate here button".
Maybe lightbox you from time to time asking for the same.
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#7I am amazed that their response to adblockers is more targetted ads. My main reason for using an adblocker isn't to block ads, which don't bother me that much. It is to block tracking accross websites. Telling me that they will do more tracking in response isn't really going to change my mind...
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#8I am amazed that their response to adblockers is more targetted ads. My main reason for using an adblocker isn't to block ads, which don't bother me that much. It is to block tracking accross websites. Telling me that they will do more tracking in response isn't really going to change my mind...
... but it may change most minds. What bothers me about advertising is the visual noise, which amounts to a pollution of my environment. Better advertising can help reduce the need to rely on pure attention-sucking and so reduce the urge to block ads entirely.
I don't give a damn about tracking. All the doomsday scenarios that those in the anti-tracking camp imagine have not come to pass.