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A lot of quality content I find is on niche blogs where I might only read an article or two. These blogs are often advertising supported. I'd much rather outso

A lot of quality content I find is on niche blogs where I might only read an article or two. These blogs are often advertising supported. I'd much rather outsource the work of whitelisting to ABP than having to do an individual consideration on every single site I visit. There's also the fact that I never want to see malicious/intrusive advertising. If I maintain my own whitelists, I have to experiment site by site. If I use ABP, they do that experimentation and enforcement for me. The thing that totally frustrates me is how many people in this thread seem to be totally incapable of grasping that ABP in fact offers exactly what I want: someone blocking intrusive advertising, but not all advertising, with me having to do zero work. As a bonus, there's even a business model attached (so they're less likely to randomly sell out their install base to a malware provider).

bigbugbag 10y ago
This argument makes no sense at all, a niche blog generates very little traffic which means it has very little advertising revenue, and this revenue goes to the hosting company which offers hosting for free in exchange of putting theirs ads on your blog. Those niche blogs could choose to pay for their hosting and it costs less than 10$ a month ($5.99 or $8.25 at wordpress.com[1]) If the advertising based business model failed overnight, I highly doubt finding 75 to 100$ a year to stay online would be out of reach. You do know that about 10% of the advertisers get in the whitelist by paying instead of conforming to the acceptable ads program ? You probably know that the acceptable ads is very limited in scope and most non intrusive ads never get whitelisted but surely you know that adblock plus has now evolved into an ad selling platform. It seems to me that adblock plus does not fit your stated ideological stance as well as Brave[3] does. You should consider ditching ABP and using Brave instead which blocks tracking and replaces all ads by other non-intrusive ads and also offers and option to pay websites directly so you could contribute to the hosting fee of those niche blogs. [1]: https://wordpress.com/pricing/ https://wordpress.com/pricing/ [2]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-sells-ads http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-... [3]: https://www.brave.com/ https://www.brave.com/

bigbugbag 10y ago

This argument makes no sense at all, a niche blog generates very little traffic which means it has very little advertising revenue, and this revenue goes to the hosting company which offers hosting for free in exchange of putting theirs ads on your blog. Those niche blogs could choose to pay for their hosting and it costs less than 10$ a month ($5.99 or $8.25 at wordpress.com[1]) If the advertising based business model failed overnight, I highly doubt finding 75 to 100$ a year to stay online would be out of reach. You do know that about 10% of the advertisers get in the whitelist by paying instead of conforming to the acceptable ads program ? You probably know that the acceptable ads is very limited in scope and most non intrusive ads never get whitelisted but surely you know that adblock plus has now evolved into an ad selling platform. It seems to me that adblock plus does not fit your stated ideological stance as well as Brave[3] does. You should consider ditching ABP and using Brave instead which blocks tracking and replaces all ads by other non-intrusive ads and also offers and option to pay websites directly so you could contribute to the hosting fee of those niche blogs. [1]: https://wordpress.com/pricing/ https://wordpress.com/pricing/ [2]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-sells-ads http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-... [3]: https://www.brave.com/ https://www.brave.com/