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That is very similar to what Adblock plus did. Many of the users were very unhappy, leading to forks of the project. This policy, for good or ill, annoyed many
by e1ven 11y ago
That is very similar to what Adblock plus did. Many of the users were very unhappy, leading to forks of the project.
This policy, for good or ill, annoyed many of the users:
https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads
Ultimately, it lead to the popular fork:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
- emsy 11y agoThere was a huge controversy behind the acceptable ads feature. I think an application like "QBlock" would still stand a chance, but it would have to be transparent and enabled for all web users.
- pjc50 11y ago"Collective bargaining" and "all web users" are never, ever going to go together. That kind of consensus is just impossible.
- joshuapants 11y agoI think the biggest part of the controversy was that people speculated it would become "pay us money so our users see your ads" more than "if your ads are acceptable we will unblock them"