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"Wen you use an ad blocker, that’s stealing. It’s no different than ripping music. It’s no different than pirating movies.” Adverisers and publishers still don'
by yabatopia 11y ago
"Wen you use an ad blocker, that’s stealing. It’s no different than ripping music. It’s no different than pirating movies.” Adverisers and publishers still don't get it. They see adblockers as some Napster-like problem: people use it to get free content. Block the adblockers and the problem will go away.
Never mind the issues visitors have with intrusive adds, bandwidth hogging ads and excessive tracking and invasion of privacy. Their solution is some magical self-regulation. Yeah, like that gonna work.
They turn a blind eye to eye the real problem: people don't trust online advertising anymore. And why should they? Everywhere they go, they get bombarded with useless, "targeted" ads that stalks them from site to site, questionable calls to action to trick them into clicking and a user experience only sadomasochistic vusitors would enjoy.
There's no shame in using adblockers. It's a matter of staying sane.
- chii 11y agobusinesses need to accept the fact that just because they put an ad up on a website or some piece of content, they are not entitled to my view of it. If they wish to enforce my viewing of the ads, they need to actually do it via an authentication mechanism. But they don't, and therefore, as a visitor, i can tacitly believe they don't really care at all.
- oska 11y agoShame? I use one with pride. I want to help destroy sites that rely on an intrusive advertising business model. And I want to put people like the source of your quote (founder and CEO of a mobile ad company) out of a job.
- toxican 11y agoCan you share you whitelist of sites with unintrusive ads? I assume you have one since your primary concern is the intrusive ones.
- narrowrail 11y agoGiven the fact that these adblocking discussions on HN have increased to 2 or 3 times per week, I imagine there will soon be an ad network that concentrates on serving unintrusive/ non- dark pattern ads. However, I currently do not know of one, perhaps you could list some of these? FYI, your tone sounds accusatory, as if you already know oska has no such whitelist, and you are just proving the point that oska is just some freeloader that wants free stuff.
- anilgulecha 11y ago> Adverisers and publishers still don't get it. Oh, they get it alright. Just that it doesn't make for good rhetoric.
- mikro2nd 11y agoHow about the contra position: "when you push ads without my permission, consuming the bandwidth that I pay for, that’s stealing. It’s no different than running illegal electrical connections or running your garden hose from my water supply."