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I think it's perfectly legitimate for ad blockers to block even tasteful sponsorship notices. That said, his sponsorship notice is really good, in just about e
by NoGravitas 10y ago
I think it's perfectly legitimate for ad blockers to block even tasteful sponsorship notices.
That said, his sponsorship notice is really good, in just about every possible way it could be. Just a text link with the name and motto of the business, overlaid on the hero image in muted colors. It reminds me of NPR sponsorship messages. Given a reasonable way of recognizing this kind of sponsorship message, I'd unblock them generally.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoCan't agree or we're not going to progress back to an acceptable median. Locally hosted, tracking free, messages of sponsorship or static images of some relevant tool or service should be reserved for an Easylist "hard line" optional file that I opt into. The default lists should be removing, with extreme prejudice, items that carry cross site tracking and attention grabbing overlays, sound and animations. There'll always be some who go into options and tick everything. I don't much like adblock's approach to taking money for letting acceptable ads through either. We might be able to achieve some level of sanity if sites like stackoverflow, troyhunt or the ad network that was trying to do it right got some benefit for trying to be ethical about it.
- NoGravitas 10y agoI agree that it would make a lot of sense to pull ads that meet this set of criteria into a separate blocklist, and that ad-blockers should not enable that list by default.