Ad-blocking: a sign that web publishers don’t care about readers

Post by cookiecaper » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 10:04 PM UTC

striking wrote: post #76

cookiecaper wrote: post #71

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The downside is that ads are going increasingly incognito, precisely to avoid things that explicitly filter them out. The basic act of renting an audience is not going to be stopped.

Thank goodness there are rules against truly indistinguishable, native ads. Because they mislead customers into thinking positive-leaning advertisements are actual reviews of products. Further reading: http://adexchanger.com/publishers/ftc-publishers-will-be-hel... https://m.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/38gocf/ethics...

That's interesting because PR companies' entire job is to place "native ads".

Post by zobzu » Sat, Oct 17, 2015, 1:43 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #13

zobzu wrote: post #9

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Im not sure why people defend ads. They fear the free web would be in danger? It already isn't free if it has ads. In the end if the ads is distracting you from the content its a bad ad, and given the choice you don't want to see it. Thus the only acceptable ads, are things like product placement. You know its an ad but it doesnt cut the flow.

> Im not sure why people defend ads. Nearly all the current voices in media rely on advertising for their existence. Nearly all of the most influential organizations are extremely biased.

im not sure if they rely on it i think its just part of the money that comes in. Totally weird but sometimes I wonder if enforcing by law that you can't get more than x% profit margins else you redistribute to the govt would actually fix the whole capitalism/corporate issue.

Of course this means the govt has to be controlled better - but thats an easier target than "all corporations"

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