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>The greed and avarice, of content producers and advertisers, destroyed what could have been a workable solution (ads)... I understand how content producers ca
by maroonblazer 10y ago
>The greed and avarice, of content producers and advertisers, destroyed what could have been a workable solution (ads)...
I understand how content producers can be blamed for the state of internet advertising but I don't understand why the advertisers are also implicated. It's the content producers who manufacture and sell the advertising product. If an advertiser doesn't buy the product his competitor will.
- zer00eyz 10y agoTotally valid question: How does malware get into ad's, the publishers didn't put it there: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/220696-forbes-forces-readers-to-turn-off-ad-blockers-promptly-serves-malware http://www.extremetech.com/internet/220696-forbes-forces-rea... Meanwhile the industry itself calls ad blocking "immoral": http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/iab-chief-blasts-adblock-plus-immoral-mendacious-coven-techie-wannabes-169194 http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/iab-chief-blasts-adblo... There is this gem linked from the article where some of them admit it might be their fault: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/iab-pivots-ad-blocking-and-issues-mea-culpa-we-messed-167583 http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/iab-pivots-ad-blocking...