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I would be completely fine with ads on my main sites if they had some form of quality control over AdSense and the likes, or even better yet hosted their own ad
by hrkristian 13y ago
I would be completely fine with ads on my main sites if they had some form of quality control over AdSense and the likes, or even better yet hosted their own ads like you said, but... tasteful.
I hate flashing ads, I loathe sound, I'm irritated to no end by ads made to look like news articles or any ad that breaks good page formatting for the sake of exposure.
However, unless browsers add ad-blockers by default I doubt we'll be seeing a future where a majority of internet users use it.
- wutbrodo 13y agoI haven't seen a flashing ad or a sound ad on anything but shady sites in _ages_. Garbage like Taboola which is all scam pitches designed to look like "Related Articles" is a different matter, but I've just blocked them directly in /etc/hosts.
- pagefair 13y agoWe completely agree that loud, flashing, and pop up ads are intrusive and have no place on the internet. As far as the majority of the internet, ad blocking extensions are getting easier and easier to use with a variety of browsers. AdBlock Plus reports 50k downloads per day on Chrome alone and 100k downloads per day on Firefox. Adblock Plus is also the most downloaded extension of all time. The issue seems to have already become mainstream. If you're interested, you can read more about adblocking in our new report here- http://downloads.pagefair.com/reports/the_rise_of_adblocking.pdf http://downloads.pagefair.com/reports/the_rise_of_adblocking...