Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th May 2009 07:50 UTC
As we happened to be talking about advertisements on OSNews yesterday, and the use of Adblock, I stumbled upon a blog entry by Adblock Plus' developer, who is trying to improve Adblock in such a way that it is less harmful to webmasters. His suggestion is surely intriguing, but will it fly wth Adblock users?
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Member since:2005-07-09
I personally don't use any ad blockers - not because of my position at OSNews, but simply because I don't care (except for the audio/video ones). For OSNews, I have to visit the most horrendous websites in the world to get you the news, but for some reason, I'm never really put off by obnoxious advertising. Sure, I'd like them to go away, but I guess I'm too much of a realist to think that me using ad block will do anything to change that.
But it does change it for you and everybody else using adblock.
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2005-07-06
I personally don't use any ad blockers - not because of my position at OSNews, but simply because I don't care (except for the audio/video ones). For OSNews, I have to visit the most horrendous websites in the world to get you the news, but for some reason, I'm never really put off by obnoxious advertising. Sure, I'd like them to go away, but I guess I'm too much of a realist to think that me using ad block will do anything to change that.
I am not sure if you qualify as a realist for not using Adblock (or a derivative). You can also qualify as masochist as a lot of Ads are very annoying.
I find it actually make browsing the internet a bigger pleasure site a more clean without them.
Sometimes my wife needs some help with her activities on the computer. I always have to looks twice before I recognize the website because of the Ads I don't see.