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That seems to be exactly what they would want you to do. You're not generating any revenue for them and clearly have no intention of doing so.

Raed667 11y ago
Their business model is broken and it is not my fault. Give me relevant ads that don't spy on me and that are not benchmarking my CPU every-time they load a piece of JS and we'll be fine.
- k-mcgrady 11y ago
  Their business model isn't necessarily broken just because it doesn't suit you. They're clearly still generating enough revenue they can afford to lose you as a customer. >> "Give me relevant ads that don't spy on me and that are not benchmarking my CPU every-time they load a piece of JS and we'll be fine." Isn't this giving you EXACTLY what you're asking for? You donate a very small amount of money nautically by reading content you block the ads on.
  - rhino369 11y ago
    No you don't understand. Apple's business model is broken because the macbook is too expensive for my tastes.
mcbits 11y ago
That's a tempting way to look at it. "Don't want to enable ads? I don't want you wasting my bandwidth!" However, outside of rich multimedia or unusually popular content, the marginal cost of serving a page view is peanuts compared to the hours (or days, or months) of human labor that already went into producing the content. Since creating quality content is the part that's difficult and expensive, it stands to reason that it's the part that should be monetized. It's really an accident of history that content creation was able to be subsidized by advertising or charging for distribution.
- eli 11y ago
  The main benefit doesn't have anything to do with bandwidth (which is very cheap), it's that the "disable your ad block" nag screens actually work on some people. If even a small percentage of people actually do whitelist/disable their ad blocker as a result of the message, then the site makes more money.
plushpuffin 11y ago
Isn't there a network effect at play, though? People who can't read your article because of ad blocker blockers won't share it on social media. Sites that turn away some visitors will probably notice a dip in traffic greater than the number of ad-blocking users who were denied access. This is the same reason Microsoft has historically been pretty lax about going after home users who pirate Windows; those users make Windows a more attractive market for software publishers, which in turn draws more users.

Raed667 11y ago

Their business model is broken and it is not my fault. Give me relevant ads that don't spy on me and that are not benchmarking my CPU every-time they load a piece of JS and we'll be fine.

k-mcgrady 11y ago
Their business model isn't necessarily broken just because it doesn't suit you. They're clearly still generating enough revenue they can afford to lose you as a customer. >> "Give me relevant ads that don't spy on me and that are not benchmarking my CPU every-time they load a piece of JS and we'll be fine." Isn't this giving you EXACTLY what you're asking for? You donate a very small amount of money nautically by reading content you block the ads on.
- rhino369 11y ago
  No you don't understand. Apple's business model is broken because the macbook is too expensive for my tastes.

mcbits 11y ago

That's a tempting way to look at it. "Don't want to enable ads? I don't want you wasting my bandwidth!" However, outside of rich multimedia or unusually popular content, the marginal cost of serving a page view is peanuts compared to the hours (or days, or months) of human labor that already went into producing the content. Since creating quality content is the part that's difficult and expensive, it stands to reason that it's the part that should be monetized. It's really an accident of history that content creation was able to be subsidized by advertising or charging for distribution.

eli 11y ago
The main benefit doesn't have anything to do with bandwidth (which is very cheap), it's that the "disable your ad block" nag screens actually work on some people. If even a small percentage of people actually do whitelist/disable their ad blocker as a result of the message, then the site makes more money.

plushpuffin 11y ago

Isn't there a network effect at play, though? People who can't read your article because of ad blocker blockers won't share it on social media. Sites that turn away some visitors will probably notice a dip in traffic greater than the number of ad-blocking users who were denied access. This is the same reason Microsoft has historically been pretty lax about going after home users who pirate Windows; those users make Windows a more attractive market for software publishers, which in turn draws more users.