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Edit: uBlock Origin blocked 20 third-party domains. Totally typical of web sites these days.
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Let's not beat around the bush: some publishers do that kind of thing because they are scumbags.
I don't really agree. I don't think that's fair.
I develop software used by newspapers. This is a problem with the whole industry. It's amazing how much crap they load. These sites all use a third party "tag manager" (Google Tag Manager, Tealium, Piwik etc.) to manage the scripts they load: ads, analytics, trackers etc. The people who use the tag manager typically aren't techies, so they don't understand that adding another tag will cause the page to slow down. Typ…
This might be worst in the news industry, but it is not uncommon on other sites too. And even without a tag manager, as a web developer, I still get requests to blindly add all sorts of scripts. Often they're requested by a marketing partner of the client, or because the client has seen something at a conference that they believe they must have. Wherever possible, I make it clear that this cruft comes at a cost, but…
That's why I am thinking actively about starting my own small business lately. Or simply refuse to do web development at all and go into data science / A.I. / pattern extraction areas.
It seems like either of those would be excruciatingly hard to transition to (work inertia can be a blessing and a curse) but I want to do either -- or both -- because web development is in my eyes in its worst decline ever. I don't buy the optimistic BS from inexperienced JS devs or the promises of new tech. People still have to use user agent sniffing for their website to work best. Just lol.
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Lots would if it weren't so inconvenient. I am not really sure about that. About 10 % of all Internet users are currently using an ad blocker. So 90 % are okay with ads or don't care or whatever. Further I would estimate that users would have to pay between $5 and $10 per month to pay for the content they consume to provide an income for sites comparable to that of ads. Maybe 1 % of the ad blocker users - number pull…
That would be a ~$30 million a year business in the United States alone which would be worthwhile if it was creating revenue out of previously non paying Adblock users. Numbers: Population: 300,000,00 million Percent internet users: 84%
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I work in IT for TRONC (parent company of LA Times), and can vouch for this. Some of the ad scripts are horrendously bad. Open firebug or chrome dev tools and load the page, watch all those errors pour in. We pay very close attention to our own code, but all those js bugs that are happening are related to external ad networks with terrible javascript. We have something in the neighborhood of 30+ ad partners. Some of…
The LA Times popup says: "To read today's stories, please turn off your ad blocker or subscribe". That "or" implies a subscription should allow you to browse ad-free. Is that intended to be true? I actually purchased a subscription because I do want to support the paper but not deal with the nightmarish ads that make the site basically unusable. However after logging in, the site immediately demands that I disable bl…
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That sounds great, but the problem I see with the n-address approach is when you do actually want to search for a received email but you don't want to remember what inbox it went to. I can see workarounds - like feed them all to a gmail box and filter them into their own folders. Or load them all into a native email client as separate accounts. I felt that way about using a password manager and generating random pass…
I store aliases (+ info about the service I provided them to) in the database and use simple PHP script to manipulate the db from the web. On the mail server side, I have postfix set up to read the database and deliver everything for a valid address to a single mailbox. It should be workable with any service that will allow you to setup aliases for a single mailbox. If they allow to set it using API, that would allow…
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I recently (past year) bit the bullet and began ad blocking myself. My primary concern is the recent proliferation of malicious content through the common ad networks. Supporting websites is great, but not at the expense of your own security.
Maybe we need smarter ad blockers. Publications right now have little incentive to improve their ads with regards to security, readers' resources or quality – because if the LA Times motivates you to install an ad blocker, the NYT is getting hit as well. The tragedy of the commoners, so to speak. If ad blockers would aggressively judge each publisher, ad network and/or advertiser and rewarded good behaviour by showin…
And maybe we ad purveyors who don't suck.
I occasionally do tech support on relative's computers and am appalled by how slow they are without an ad blocker.
I'll go even more extreme, if my browsing experience on your site invokes more than your domain and a single CDN domain, you FAIL.
If you want to serve ads, you should have to put your resources and the reputation of your domain at risk to serve them.
so, as someone who keeps meaning to try it out but hasn't yet: how does Brave do with this site?
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> I should be willing to trade for seeing their ads. So did you spend time looking at them ads on purpose of guilt???
I think maybe you're reading too much into it. I made no mention of "guilt". I merely stated that I was willing to trade seeing ads (not explicitly taking time to look at them or click them) for free access to content...when those ads were much less intrusive and privacy-invading and bandwidth intensive than they are now. Ad networks have since convinced me that was a mistake, but I feel no guilt about using an ad bl…
how could I make that more clear than using ???
OTOH, you use the word trade which does imply guild on both sides