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They benefit from people blocking ads, just not their ads. And they can't just build something into their browser to block everyone else's ads by default becaus
by Arnavion 3y ago
They benefit from people blocking ads, just not their ads. And they can't just build something into their browser to block everyone else's ads by default because that'll be uncompetitive.
- plagiarist 3y agoIs it? I've seen ad blockers try that "privileged ads" model. It's hilariously unpopular and unprofitable due to product market mismatch. Maybe I am cynical about the law, but I assume the only reason they don't block other networks is because it would be their same advertisers, and they would be furious enough to take action.
- charcircuit 3y agoChrome already ships with ad blockers built in for ads which are disruptive or use too much resources. https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-works.html https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-w... https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/subresource_filter/README.md https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com... https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/heavy_ad_intervention/ https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com... https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/blocked_content/ https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...
- denton-scratch 3y agoAll ads are disruptive.
- Drakim 3y agoNote however that they get to decide this criteria, I as a user does not have any input as to which ads are "disruptive". And hey, it just so happens that their criteria allows for their own ads.
- indymike 3y agoIt’s not an add blocker. It is a competitive as blocker.
- Arnavion 3y agoYes, which is not "block everyone else's ads". Your own first link says that websites eventually fixed their ads to comply with their "Better Ads Standards" and thus became able to show them again.