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Never heard of 'em. My gut tells me that by the holiday season we'll see more major sites blocking ad-blockers. And, of course, we'll just use different tools
by DanielBMarkham 11y ago
Never heard of 'em.
My gut tells me that by the holiday season we'll see more major sites blocking ad-blockers.
And, of course, we'll just use different tools. Or better yet, change our browser signatures. After all, it's a courtesy to content providers for consumers to tell them what kinds of tools they're using. That courtesy can be rescinded.
This entire spy vs. spy scenario makes me sad. I'm very sorry that the internet thought that folks walking by a storefront looking at your sales copy was a monetizable event. It is not. It was simply a fluke of the way the default technology was constructed.
And now I fully expect to see large, well-funded players enter the fray -- on the side of content providers. That's also a bad thing. Going to be a lot of pain before this gets sorted out.
- keithpeter 11y agoFirefox with Noscript: big sign suggesting I switch Javascript back on. Terminal with w3m - all text visible including the 'skip to content' accessibility link at the top of each page. Appears to be full text of articles (my German is sadly quite limited). Yes, I agree, some kind of arms race will no doubt commence.
- lordsper 11y agoYeah, but the adblockers will win in the end. Worst case: we lose all bandwidth winnings, and have to simulate functioning ads to content distributors. P.S.: NoScript blocks the Javascript warning for me, unless I allow the bild.de domain. The adblock-blocker only works with NoScript fully disabled. I'm using Firefox with uBlock and NoScript.
- PretzelFisch 11y agoTrue, we can always cut the ad's element out after they render.
- Canada 11y agoMegabyte songs, gigabyte videos, and games in the tens of gigabytes flow freely. And these guys think they're going to control how a couple kilobytes of text is viewed. Game on.
- zebpowel 11y agothey're huge in Germany, so this is significant news. get out of your US centric dream land ;)
- coldtea 11y ago>Never heard of 'em. There's a huge world out there most people have never heard of most things. One could say "Beatles? I've never heard of them? Or AFX? Never heard of him" but that wouldn't make them unimportant. Springer is huge in its business.