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One thing I've always admired about Apple is that they use no third-party scripts. And I thus always think "If that works for Apple, which is arguable the most
by intrasight 10y ago
One thing I've always admired about Apple is that they use no third-party scripts. And I thus always think "If that works for Apple, which is arguable the most successful company, why don't other companies follow their successful model?" I still have no good answer to that question.
Also, I followed this troyhunt.com post to the "Ad blockers are part of the problem" post - which I found to be an even more interesting read, particularly:
"When ad blockers are stooping to the same low level as advertisers themselves are in order to force their own agendas, something is very, very wrong. Deliberately modifying sites like mine which are making a conscious effort to get us away from the very things about ads that led to ad blockers in the first place makes them part of the problem. Ad blockers like this need to clean up their act."
And because he is "famous", the ad blocker did clean up its act - for his site. Sucks all around in my opinion.
- doodpants 10y agoArguably, his sponsored links are ads, and ad blockers block ads. Sure, there is a case to be made that only problematic ads should be blocked, but I don't think it's so cut and dry.
- intrasight 10y agoI personally do discriminate between ads and sponsorship but certainly it is not so cut and dry. Would you call all these sponsored sports stadiums ads? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sponsored_sports_stadiums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sponsored_sports_stadi...
- doodpants 10y agoThe sponsorship itself is not an ad, nor is the stadium. But signs posted at the stadiums indicating the sponsorship could be considered ads. Likewise in the case of the website, the text indicating that the site is sponsored, which will take the user to the sponsor's site when clicked, is an ad. Thus, it is not unreasonable that an ad blocker would block it, even if it isn't "intrusive" advertising.
- vacri 10y agoThere are plenty of giant corporations with no ads on their website. When you already hire teams of ops staffers, the trickle of money from online ads is going to be next to worthless.