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That's highly speculative and phrased in a way impossible to answer: > eventually evolving into something that we cannot escape? What I think: if they find a
by franciscop 11y ago
That's highly speculative and phrased in a way impossible to answer:
> eventually evolving into something that we cannot escape?
What I think: if they find a way to block adblockers, we'll find a way to block the adblock blockers! It looks like a fight that will keep going on for some time. Until they make ads so good that they are indistinguishable from good content, then we'd won [1]
I now block the blockers naturally, just not following those pesky links. I would love some statistics for instance, from the times Forbes and others are in the top HN page before vs after they completely started blocking adblock.
[1] https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
- blackoil 11y agoOr they make content even worse to make it difficult to differ and we lose
- untog 11y agoI think the "something that we cannot escape" the OP is describing is already here in the form of "native ads", which are advertisements presented as articles. Buzzfeed does a lot of them, and there's a non-zero cognitive load in differentiating (since they look so much like articles). I'm really not sure they're better than ads. They're certainly more deceiving.
- wagglycocks 11y agoThat's where curated media comes into play. No-one's going to upvote an article that's literally just filler text.
- Karunamon 11y agoI don't think it's possible. At the end of the day, the browser (user) determines if and how any given piece of markup will be rendered. There are server side hacks of course, but those are still relying on the user's agent to reply to them a certain way. As long as the web is based mostly on HTML, the blockers win.