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Why don't sites more often block (or just show a message to) users of Adblock? Is that traffic more valuable than not? Are they hoping visitors will link articl
by tomflack 14y ago
Why don't sites more often block (or just show a message to) users of Adblock? Is that traffic more valuable than not? Are they hoping visitors will link articles to non-Adblock using people? It seems to me like there is a value in users who don't see your ads, or you'd just block them.
I subscribe to Arstechnica premiere to remove the ads, I have Adblock disabled on overclockers.com.au, The Verge. I subscribe to offtopic.com at a level that removes ads. I contributed to the Penny-Arcade ad-removing kick starter.
Everything else has its ads blocked because you need to prove your worth and trustworthiness to me after two decades of sliding in to the abyss.
If you don't want me, block me. Don't let me see your content.
- aerique 14y agoSmart sites detect Adblock and ask you to consider disabling it for their site. That approach seems to make the best business sense to me (as in: I do consider and disable Adblock for those sites, unless their ads are annoying in which case it gets turned on again).
- regularfry 14y agoThere have been backlashes in the past against authors who block content to Adblock users.
- tomflack 14y agoI would find it incredibly difficult to take anyone seriously who jumped on a bandwagon against authors/editors/sites like that.
- regularfry 14y agoAnd yet it has happened.
- tomflack 14y agoGot any specific examples? I'm having trouble actually caring about any potential backlash. I'd possibly welcome it.
- regularfry 14y agoThere was a moderately high-profile drama over it a few years ago which, typically, I can't find right now. Maybe it's just viewed as less contentious these days.