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The solution, (IMHO) is don't visit those sites any more. Vote with your feet. Ad blocking means the market will never correct itself. You're cutting off the f

by axod 17y ago

The solution, (IMHO) is don't visit those sites any more. Vote with your feet. Ad blocking means the market will never correct itself. You're cutting off the feedback loop. If an ad annoys you, just don't visit that website again! Simple. It's not like there's a shortage of websites to visit. edit: Yeah downmod me. It's a crazy idea! If you go into a shop, and the owner beats you with a bat, you'd resolve to wear full body armor when shopping from now on, and go right back there wouldn't you.

jamesbritt 17y ago
"Ad blocking means the market will never correct itself. You're cutting off the feedback loop. If an ad annoys you, just don't visit that website again! Simple. It's not like there's a shortage of websites to visit." Doesn't this depend on how ad blockers work? If my browser fetches some HTML, and it includes an img ref to some ad site, my blocker might a) prevent the fetching of that resource, or b) allow it to be fetched, but block the rendering. I'm pretty sure blockers use the first technique. So, visiting a site with an ad blocker ups a site's hit count, but adds nothing to the eyeball count for the ads. Fro the ad-tracking POV, it's as if you never visited. It may very well be the sort of feedback that's needed. If you really want to be more active about this you're better off writing to the site owner with your concerns than simply not visiting the place. If my site gets no traffic, how will I know if it's because of the ads, or crappy content?
jfager 17y ago
The vast majority of sites that I visit, I visit from aggregators such as HN, from Google, or from 3rd-party links in my Twitter stream or RSS reader. I don't have any numbers, but I would imagine that nowadays that's how a large number of people consume their content. When you say "don't visit these sites anymore", how exactly am I supposed to keep track of who I can and can't visit for fear of offending?
- axod 17y ago
  I do it with sites like nytimes. If there's an article on here from nytimes, I just don't bother with it any more. They have a paywall/subscription thingy and I just can't be bothered to google for login details. But it's fairly simple to just block sites that annoy you - firewall/hosts/etc

by axod 17y ago

jamesbritt 17y ago

"Ad blocking means the market will never correct itself. You're cutting off the feedback loop. If an ad annoys you, just don't visit that website again! Simple. It's not like there's a shortage of websites to visit." Doesn't this depend on how ad blockers work? If my browser fetches some HTML, and it includes an img ref to some ad site, my blocker might a) prevent the fetching of that resource, or b) allow it to be fetched, but block the rendering. I'm pretty sure blockers use the first technique. So, visiting a site with an ad blocker ups a site's hit count, but adds nothing to the eyeball count for the ads. Fro the ad-tracking POV, it's as if you never visited. It may very well be the sort of feedback that's needed. If you really want to be more active about this you're better off writing to the site owner with your concerns than simply not visiting the place. If my site gets no traffic, how will I know if it's because of the ads, or crappy content?

jfager 17y ago

The vast majority of sites that I visit, I visit from aggregators such as HN, from Google, or from 3rd-party links in my Twitter stream or RSS reader. I don't have any numbers, but I would imagine that nowadays that's how a large number of people consume their content. When you say "don't visit these sites anymore", how exactly am I supposed to keep track of who I can and can't visit for fear of offending?

axod 17y ago
I do it with sites like nytimes. If there's an article on here from nytimes, I just don't bother with it any more. They have a paywall/subscription thingy and I just can't be bothered to google for login details. But it's fairly simple to just block sites that annoy you - firewall/hosts/etc