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Interesting question. I think it boils down to the fact that the ads are delivered with the content. You can just choose to not look at the ads, right? This is

Interesting question. I think it boils down to the fact that the ads are delivered with the content. You can just choose to not look at the ads, right? This is the same principle that the ad blockers work on. To get around that, Another way to do it is to deliver the ads first, have the browser attest the ads were played and then serve the content. The problem is the end user can always modify what you serve them. Getting the browser to attest to something like that is very hard if not impossible. There's no good way to do it. The advertisers will always be playing a game of cat and mouse. They take what they can get, because that's all they can do.

PaulHoule 5y ago
You can't always choose not to look at them. This blog drives me up the wall with ads that cover the content, particularly on mobile devices https://tonyortega.org/ https://tonyortega.org/ The buttons for closing the content are hard enough to hit on a touch screen that at least 50% of the time I am going to wind up clicking on the ad by accident. I don't want to reward that behavior so I don't attempt to close the ads. It's a certain sign that Scientology is a shadow of what it used to be that David Miscavige hasn't unleashed his flying monkeys to make accusations of click fraud against that site. Maybe they just aren't as internet saavy as Heaven's Gate.
- tragictrash 5y ago
  By choosing to not look at them, I'm referring to how ad blockers choose to not retrieve the ads, not a human.
wizzerking 5y ago
Plus here in the U.S.A we have data caps if we have to use AT&T so any bandwidth taken up by ads is bandwidth we can not use for stuff we really want to see. On top of that we are constantly inundated with malware, from drive by's and other malicious websites, that we have to pay for malware protection, on top of having to pay for 70 per month to 100 Megabits per second in the LA ara

PaulHoule 5y ago

You can't always choose not to look at them. This blog drives me up the wall with ads that cover the content, particularly on mobile devices https://tonyortega.org/ https://tonyortega.org/ The buttons for closing the content are hard enough to hit on a touch screen that at least 50% of the time I am going to wind up clicking on the ad by accident. I don't want to reward that behavior so I don't attempt to close the ads. It's a certain sign that Scientology is a shadow of what it used to be that David Miscavige hasn't unleashed his flying monkeys to make accusations of click fraud against that site. Maybe they just aren't as internet saavy as Heaven's Gate.

tragictrash 5y ago
By choosing to not look at them, I'm referring to how ad blockers choose to not retrieve the ads, not a human.

wizzerking 5y ago

Plus here in the U.S.A we have data caps if we have to use AT&T so any bandwidth taken up by ads is bandwidth we can not use for stuff we really want to see. On top of that we are constantly inundated with malware, from drive by's and other malicious websites, that we have to pay for malware protection, on top of having to pay for 70 per month to 100 Megabits per second in the LA ara