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You want to read an article for free, they want you to see their article with ads. It's a negotiation, and you are free to say no and just not read the article

by dsjoerg 11y ago

You want to read an article for free, they want you to see their article with ads. It's a negotiation, and you are free to say no and just not read the article. I thought it was tastefully done. They even mentioned they were running a "light ads" site. Why would they want to serve their pages to people using ad-blockers anyway? What would you prefer they have done?

paulpauper 11y ago
It's not like they don't have enough ads on the article pages themselves. I'm sure they are extremely profitable with all those ads plastered everywhere, with enough ads that it slows the browser. I hope LinkedIn and Quora contributors gains more traction, because the user experience is much better for the reader. Facebook is another example of a company that is extremely profitable while running ads that are not too obtrusive or annoying.
LesZedCB 11y ago
My ad-blocker is run to prevent tracking as well. I want them to not track either.
- pfooti 11y ago
  FWIW, I block pretty much everything ghostery can block and can interact with the Forbes site just fine.
- dbg31415 11y ago
  I disabled ad-block but left tracking-blocker on and it still wouldn't let me in. At that point I figured it wasn't worth it. They want to lose visitors, fine. What they're forgetting is that people who have ad blockers also share and post links to various networks... they aren't just shutting out the ad-blockers, they're shutting out anyone the ad-blockers may be friends with. It's retarded, but it's their prerogative. Incidentally, here's a great host file blocker for programs that run ads but don't support ad-block plugins. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
fencepost 11y ago
I'd rather they serve their ads from their own server, then I'd never encounter their ad-blocker-blocker. I'm not actually running an adblocker, I'm running RequestPolicy and NoScript. Forbes.com and forbesimg.com are allowed as are requests between them, but I'm not going to go through and individually allow requests out to multiple other sites just to see which one is serving ads (though I suspect it's the permanently-marked-untrusted doubleclick.net).
rlongstaff 11y ago
After disabling my adblocker to visit the site I was greeted with an auto-play video (with sound) that took up half the page. This is not what I would term 'ad light'.

by dsjoerg 11y ago

paulpauper 11y ago

It's not like they don't have enough ads on the article pages themselves. I'm sure they are extremely profitable with all those ads plastered everywhere, with enough ads that it slows the browser. I hope LinkedIn and Quora contributors gains more traction, because the user experience is much better for the reader. Facebook is another example of a company that is extremely profitable while running ads that are not too obtrusive or annoying.

LesZedCB 11y ago

My ad-blocker is run to prevent tracking as well. I want them to not track either.

pfooti 11y ago
FWIW, I block pretty much everything ghostery can block and can interact with the Forbes site just fine.
dbg31415 11y ago
I disabled ad-block but left tracking-blocker on and it still wouldn't let me in. At that point I figured it wasn't worth it. They want to lose visitors, fine. What they're forgetting is that people who have ad blockers also share and post links to various networks... they aren't just shutting out the ad-blockers, they're shutting out anyone the ad-blockers may be friends with. It's retarded, but it's their prerogative. Incidentally, here's a great host file blocker for programs that run ads but don't support ad-block plugins. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

fencepost 11y ago

I'd rather they serve their ads from their own server, then I'd never encounter their ad-blocker-blocker. I'm not actually running an adblocker, I'm running RequestPolicy and NoScript. Forbes.com and forbesimg.com are allowed as are requests between them, but I'm not going to go through and individually allow requests out to multiple other sites just to see which one is serving ads (though I suspect it's the permanently-marked-untrusted doubleclick.net).

rlongstaff 11y ago

After disabling my adblocker to visit the site I was greeted with an auto-play video (with sound) that took up half the page. This is not what I would term 'ad light'.