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"Plus if Adblock is actually successful and the online advertising industry collapses, then they will be putting themselves out of business." Even worse. Some
by ErikHuisman 13y ago
"Plus if Adblock is actually successful and the online advertising industry collapses, then they will be putting themselves out of business."
Even worse. Some of these companies (not adblock) are asking protection money from big advertisers to be whitelisted. Mafia style.
- philliphaydon 13y agoA free service putting itself out of business... Can someone explain to me how that works?
- Kudos 13y ago> A free service putting itself out of business... Are you suggesting a free service can't make enough money to operate a business? Man, how am I getting away with not paying for that Wikipedia subscription. Adblock operates on donations and if it were to eliminate advertising, its current product would become useless.
- pjmlp 13y ago> Man, how am I getting away with not paying for that Wikipedia subscription. Because other people pay for you.
- frankacter 13y agoI believe they meant that the ad companies are promoting a product that blocks the same ads they sell. If the promotion is successful, the ad company gets a short term win ($$) but a long term loss in ad views.
- kailuowang 13y agoI think that's the only way add block remain operational
- dylangs1030 13y ago[Citation needed.] Maybe this is well-known, but my google-fu only turned up this news about Adblock Plus. Are you sure Adblock does it as well? When I used adblock as the search criteria, I got a bunch of hits on it. But when I did adblock -plus, I got nothing primary that could pin this activity to AdBlock.
- ErikHuisman 13y agoSorry.. No, Adblock does not do this. It is purely donation based which is a good thing. I was a bit off topic.