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It's not immoral and dishonest to have a different idea of the core product value than you do. Personally, I run AdBlock not because I break out in hives in the
by chc 13y ago
It's not immoral and dishonest to have a different idea of the core product value than you do. Personally, I run AdBlock not because I break out in hives in the presence of advertising, but because a lot of advertising on the web is just awful, makes sites harder to use and wears down my battery. Whitelisting advertising that is actually consumer-friendly is not at all against the core value I derive from the product. (Though I don't think my AdBlock extension does this, honestly, but I wouldn't mind if it did.)
- nwilliams 13y agoThe article seems to imply(if my reading of the somewhat dodgy translation is right) that Google ads were allowed but Bing and Yahoo's weren't. Last I checked, both Bing's and Yahoo's ads were as "unobstrusive" as Google's text ads so unblocking only Google's ads because Google pays them does not follow from what you said about distracting and resource hungry ads. Perhaps Google's ads are less obtrusive because it has started disguising them from organic search results pretty well? http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-it http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-it http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentionally-trying-to-minimize-the-fact-that-these-are-ads/ http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional... FTC recently ruled against this and said that 62% of web surfers studied could not even tell that there ads on the search results page! http://www.ftc.gov/os/2013/06/130625searchenginegeneralletter.pdf http://www.ftc.gov/os/2013/06/130625searchenginegenerallette...