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Let me remind you that Ad-Block Plus collapsed when it's users revolted over their plan to whitelist simple vetted advertisements in a truce with advertisers.

Let me remind you that Ad-Block Plus collapsed when it's users revolted over their plan to whitelist simple vetted advertisements in a truce with advertisers. ABP was foolish and actually believed it's users were trying to make a statement about invasive ads. Really their users just didn't want to see any ads at all, ever, regardless of the circumstances.

eipi10_hn 2y ago
ABP didn't even address any trackings with their program. It's just pure cosmetics. > Really their users just didn't want to see any ads at all Because the internet was filled with malicious ads before any content blockers having more people? The hazardours time of Windows XP/7 with malwares-affected from the ads appear like meals in every day's news? Sorry, internet ads are doomed from those times. They are migrained to everyone's minds that users are walking in a landmines with those ads. If a business is entirely dependent on those ads, that business should not exist. Doing business is hard, right? I mean, like, most of other ethical jobs on the world. Users are just doing what World Wide Web Consortium says.
- skydhash 2y ago
  And most people don't have issue with static ads like those in newspapers and magazines. People would be fine if business wants to advertise something, but the tech ads industry does not only want to promote things to you, they want to capture your attention as well, regardless of if you want the thing or not. They think they can only do so by knowing you as well as your mother does. If a business have something to sell, just let people know. No need to help create a surveillance state.
debugnik 2y ago
You forgot to mention it involved paid whitelisting, and the requirements for compliance were so weak that even major malvertising vectors, like Google, were considered acceptable.
int_19h 2y ago
Quite frankly, at this point, I just want any business that runs on ads to crash and burn. The whole business model is insanely toxic and sociopathic and shouldn't be tolerated at all.

eipi10_hn 2y ago

ABP didn't even address any trackings with their program. It's just pure cosmetics. > Really their users just didn't want to see any ads at all Because the internet was filled with malicious ads before any content blockers having more people? The hazardours time of Windows XP/7 with malwares-affected from the ads appear like meals in every day's news? Sorry, internet ads are doomed from those times. They are migrained to everyone's minds that users are walking in a landmines with those ads. If a business is entirely dependent on those ads, that business should not exist. Doing business is hard, right? I mean, like, most of other ethical jobs on the world. Users are just doing what World Wide Web Consortium says.

skydhash 2y ago
And most people don't have issue with static ads like those in newspapers and magazines. People would be fine if business wants to advertise something, but the tech ads industry does not only want to promote things to you, they want to capture your attention as well, regardless of if you want the thing or not. They think they can only do so by knowing you as well as your mother does. If a business have something to sell, just let people know. No need to help create a surveillance state.

debugnik 2y ago

You forgot to mention it involved paid whitelisting, and the requirements for compliance were so weak that even major malvertising vectors, like Google, were considered acceptable.

int_19h 2y ago

Quite frankly, at this point, I just want any business that runs on ads to crash and burn. The whole business model is insanely toxic and sociopathic and shouldn't be tolerated at all.