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I'll pay for good content - and I do with WSJ, Nat Geo and more - but I'm sure as hell not going to disable my adblocker any time soon. I'm sick of marketing a
by borgia 12y ago
I'll pay for good content - and I do with WSJ, Nat Geo and more - but I'm sure as hell not going to disable my adblocker any time soon.
I'm sick of marketing and marketers. They bombard us 24/7 on every medium they can.
- Turn on the TV and you're not only swamped with blatant ads, but they've pushed subtle product placement into everything possible.
- Turn on the radio and you're blasted with ads.
- Go on Facebook and you're hammered with "tailored" ads, clickbait, autoplaying viral videos and more.
- Go on Twitter and every popular hashtag is flooded with people advertising unrelated products.
- Walk down the street and ads are everywhere.
- Open a "free" news site and you're bombarded with ads and ads disguised as articles. Look up a tutorial and you're presented with a slide-based site that loads up new ads every time you click, or throws extra ads in on every other slide.
It's a battle and I will never entertain a "morality" argument from those in charge of the above.
Completely "free" content online is total junk for the most part. I wouldn't pay to read Reddit, anything from the Gawker network, ReCode, etc. as they haven't content worth paying for, and I won't support their ad revenue either as it makes no difference to me whether they survive or disappear. I would have previously considered paying for some of the mainstream tech news sites but they've absolutely ruined their content in recent years in the name of getting easy clicks for ad revenue.
- DataCreep 12y agoI'll never feel bad about hurting an industry that is responsible for things like "advocate marketing". The only problem I have with ad blockers is that they don't cause enough suffering for marketing companies. I'd like to see more projects like this one pop up. http://adnauseam.io/ http://adnauseam.io/