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> As abetted by for-profit technology companies, ad blocking is robbery, plain and simple My stand on this: 1) I have an ad blocker in place 2) Sites can dete
by ifdefdebug 11y ago
> As abetted by for-profit technology companies, ad blocking is robbery, plain and simple
My stand on this:
1) I have an ad blocker in place
2) Sites can detect my ad blocker and ask me to disable it before they show me content - I know it's feasible because I already saw that happening several times.
3) Then I can decide if I want to disable the blocker and see the content, or not.
So if a site does not block it's content in response to me blocking their ads, I will assume they are fine with it. For sure I am not steeling the content because they basically provide it for free - as in free beer.
- eli 11y agoI think this is a little disingenuous. It's actually pretty difficult to detect ad blocking. The ad blockers actively try to evade detection and have special filters to interfere with detection code. It's true that some sites detect ad blocking with some success and there are commercial solutions being pitched to publishers for blocking the ad blockers, but it's a constant arms race where the publishers are at a technical disadvantage. (Consider that there's only so much they can do if they want their pages to be accessible on the web and crawled by google.) There should be an ad blocker that is as easy to detect on the server as it is to install for the user.
- pvdebbe 11y agoYes. And in any case -- I haven't signed any agreements to view ads in the sites I visit. They have the right to deny adblockers, but also if they don't block us, it doesn't pose an ethical question.