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I don't know about this feedback idea. While there's certainly the matter of personal taste and preference involved, a general idea on what is acceptable and w
by darklajid 15y ago
I don't know about this feedback idea.
While there's certainly the matter of personal taste and preference involved, a general idea on what is acceptable and what not should be part of the site owner's common sense. If you present ads with sound / huge overlays that I need to click away in a weird way you are trying to screw me. Why would I _not_ block the ads or (better) ignore the site?
If we would have a good and standard way to give feedback, wouldn't the sites just gravitate towards the maximum of tolerable advertisement abuse?
- enobrev 15y agoYou're probably right. I personally have no idea. I've sustained a site with ads once in my career and I've never understood why anyone even bothered looking at the ads much less clicking them. I figure if a site's ads are annoying I can still block the ads - just that it could be helpful for the site owner to know that I am Explicitly blocking their ads. I suppose my thoughts on opening a channel of communication is to say that I don't mind ads as long as they're respectful of my purpose for visiting a site, and that communication is better than trial and error.
- mooism2 15y agoSome sites I use detect AdBlock, and either ask for me to switch it off or to give them a donation. I've always assumed they detect it by noticing that a function defined in the ad-serving js is not present in the page.
- switz 15y agoMost just wait a bit and detect if the ad is hidden (`display:none` or `visibility:hidden`) using javascript.