I am curious how this will impact the web. Ads are the only revenue stream for most of the sites. Blocking ads is good for user experience but when you think from publishers site how will they survive? "I like ads because I can support people I like without even spending a dime" said one of my friends. I cannot agree more because there are plenty of people on mid and small scale try to earn living with the content th…
I expect that as ad blockers become mainstream, the cross-site tracking iframe include style of ad will go the same way as pop-ups, and the advertising industry will have to look at new options again.
> half of US mobile and tablet usage the point is SPECIFICALLY about 'desktop+tablet+mobile' market share. not among mobile alone, because ad revenue is not factored on mobile views only as well. you need to select the all browser from the dropdown.
You need to re-read what I wrote. You claimed: > apple is very late to the game and has a relatively tiny market share when compared all browser usage among all platform when including desktop The GRAPH shows Safari second only to Chrome, with 12% vs 45% usage across all devices, globally. How exactly is #2 browser worldwide "relatively tiny" ? In addition, I commented that there is a NEWS item which says Safari has…
the thread is still about ad revenue change post apple introduction of content blocking. to evaluate the impact you need to put the browser in context of the ad revenue pie, and that is about 10% (12% including desktop safari)
50% of a small pie is still small. it is growing, indeed, still of that ad revenue loss it is not game changing.
Just bought and tried (in this order): Crystal, Purify and Peace. Each has features to like. Crystal has a great price and is the only one to let you report an ad not blocked or broken page so that the ad block list can be updated. Purify lets you block scripts and images on top of font-blocking options also in Peace. Crystal missed an ad that Purify (and Peace) caught, but Peace was the only one that seriously remov…
I guess that a fart app should probably not cost anything since it's quite useless, but I do believe that it's a problem that on day one of a whole new App Store category, the first app launched, Crystal (it appeared hours before Purify and Peace for me anyways) is a free app. That's how you make mobile apps an unsustainable business. I don't know how much work has gone into making these content blocker apps, but I b…
I dunno. On other platforms (Windows, OSX, Android, etc) ad blockers are just free browser plugins. While I'm sure there's a place for paid options on platforms where devs have the ability to differentiate with some "killer feature", it seems like the iOS options are the equivalent of the different AdBlock variants (Plus/Edge/Origin/et al).
Only one of these apps is free - Crystal. And it says it's temporary right on the App Store page and why. The author is making an entirely conscious, clear-eyed business decision. Here's a bit from the email he sent to his testers: A big thank you to all 1200 of the testers who have helped shape Crystal into a solid application. I'm sorry to everyone else who didn't get a spot to test it, but the good news is, you ca…
And an hour later, it's $0.99. I don't have any money left in my account so I'm just going to wait until there is a free one.
No it's not rooted and I can't deploy our device policy on rooted devices (this is a company phone; a moto g 3rd gen). I had terrible battery problems on a moto g2 about a year ago which is what I'm basing my opinion on so that may be invalid now.
Oh man, what a difference a year makes. I gave up on FF when it was a freshly laid turd. I tried it again a few months back on a recommendation from HN. Whoa. They've managed to polish it into a diamond. You'd have to prize Firefox and uBlock (on my first gen Moto G) out of my cold dead hands.
Downloading now. You have at least persuaded me to have another go at it :)
Oh man, what a difference a year makes. I gave up on FF when it was a freshly laid turd. I tried it again a few months back on a recommendation from HN. Whoa. They've managed to polish it into a diamond. You'd have to prize Firefox and uBlock (on my first gen Moto G) out of my cold dead hands.
Downloading now. You have at least persuaded me to have another go at it :)
Load in uBlock, and if you use it, Lastpass.
I browsed The Verge site just fine. (The images took a little longer to load than I expected, but I checked and same happens on the desktop. So it's a shitty ISP/CDN/Optimization problem rather than a browser one.)
The impact is the same as when mail started to block spam. There will be a initial decrease and complain, followed by change to more professional behavior in the industry. For example, mail news letter used to be sent out in mass to any email that the company has harvested. That tactic is now illegal, so they only send out to customers who has subscribed to it and the letter must have instructions on how to unsubscri…
> That tactic is now illegal, so they only send out to customers who has subscribed to it and the letter must have instructions on how to unsubscripted. Reputable people may do that but my mail server is still getting 1000s of spams a day.
Correct, and this is the business concept behind technology that is intended to block spam while still permitting the reputable mail passage to the user. One of the commonly argued reason to use gmail has been its spam blocking features.
So use an ad network that doesn't unnecessarily track me across the entire web, destroy my battery life, and make reading content (particularly on mobile) a game of 'find the article' amongst the shit storm of ads. The number of things that everyday sites embed in their pages is phenomenal. The Ghostery extension gives a good idea about how much crap gets loaded. In an article about content blockers, http://www.imore…
Do you not see the sense of entitlement in that? If the site has too many ads for your taste, simply don't visit that site. You have some sense that you are entitled to whatever efforts the site owner has committed to bring you content (obviously enough effort to be interesting to you) without supporting them through the ad service they chose. If you don't like their ads, you could simply move on, but now you're taki…
So you must have the built-in pop-up blockers built into almost all browsers turned off too, right? Since that's the only non-hypocritical way to make the argument you're making.