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I am with you in this. I saw that people around me started to use AdBlockers and I found first that it is not really fair from them. Until one of the news site
by eveningcoffee 11y ago
I am with you in this. I saw that people around me started to use AdBlockers and I found first that it is not really fair from them.
Until one of the news sites I regularly read was barely usable by always running on 100% CPU, which means it was not possible to open it on multiple tabs without making my computer fully unusable.
And until Google started to use video ads in my region. I figured that it would be better for the local business to block the ads as if they cluelessly start to annoy me with their video ads, they would anger and loose one of their potential and possibly already loyal customer. Beside some of the ads had very questionable moral value.
I would call this trend telefication - ad publishers want to control when people see ads and for how long. I think that this is not acceptable.
PS. Paying for content is also not an option until there is an anonymous way to make a payment and the payments are minuscule.
Otherwise we will have serious censorship issue.
- inanutshellus 11y agoI actually like seeing ads (though I wish they weren't coming from omniscient ad networks and were instead coming from the sites I was visiting). Content providers get money, I get free content. Nice. HTML5 Video Ads are what finally switched me to ad blockers. When people served static images and Adobe Flash videos, I could just disable auto-play of Flash, and voila, I see ads, but don't get obnoxious videos on random tabs. Now I have to block it all to get any peace. Auto-playing video ads is just bad etiquette.
- bluejekyll 11y agoSafari at least added a disable all sound on a tab button. They should probably add or include video as an option too.
- daemin 11y agoYeah, Firefox has a mute tab button in each tab, but it still annoys me when all of a sudden I get some sound playing in the background for no reason.
- inanutshellus 11y agoI don't even want a video's worth of bandwidth going across the wire. Send me a picture of what you're selling, or don't sell me anything.
- lgas 11y agoI would prefer all tabs start muted and you have to enable sound if you're interested.
- marssaxman 11y agoThat's how I use JavaScript!
- rincebrain 11y agoChrome also has this button, though I don't know when they added it (right-click the tab, "Mute Tab").
- obsurveyor 11y agoAuto-playing any video content that isn't an explicit "click this link to watch a video" is bad etiquette imho.
- firebird84 11y agoI don't know about chrome, but in firefox you can disable autoplay on HTML5 now. It's a bit annoying for watching youtube because it assumes the video is already playing (you have to go click the pause and then click play) but annoying news sites and other nonsense don't bother me anymore.
- basseq 11y ago> PS. Paying for content is also not an option until there is an anonymous way to make a payment and the payments are minuscule. This is the most important part of your post. I would be glad to find a way to pay for content that I value. I do in other realms (e.g., Netflix original programming). But to me it comes back to a) ease-of-use and b) trust. On the former, there's a big opportunity in a way to make that seamless. One click and done. And, on the latter, trust is huge. People are using ad-blockers because publishers' sites have malicious ad networks. And now you want me to give you my credit card number!? It just doesn't work.
- 7952 11y agoMy local newspaper downloads >4MB on initial page load. Some of the ads will not even render correctly on my perfectly normal laptop. The ads are a mix of dodgy ad networks and well meaning local businesses. The sad thing is that they probably don't even realise how bad it is and how they are abusing their advertisers.