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> If you read the rest of my comment you'd see that I already mentioned people like you exist. I do apologize if I misunderstood you, but re-reading your comme

by Udo 11y ago

> If you read the rest of my comment you'd see that I already mentioned people like you exist. I do apologize if I misunderstood you, but re-reading your comment and mine I still don't believe that's really the case. Either people like me are a lie told by the ad industry or we do exist. It's unlikely both of these are true at the same time. I also object to the rest of your original comment, which literally boils down to "Nobody installs ad block because they realised they weren't interested in any of the adverts", I just didn't address it explicitly because it would have been redundant. But if you are looking for a lie told by people selling ads, that sentence would make a better candidate.

corin_ 11y ago
First, you're right that saying nobody was wrong - but I think very few people. Even you, do you really object to advertising, or just the way it's done online? If you get on a train do you hate the fact that there are adverts on there subsidizing the cost of the service? My guess is you don't care as you just ignore them. But that wasn't actually the point I was trying to make. My response to "when you install an ad blocker, you're already exceptionally unlikely to click an ad on purpose" isn't that nobody exists like that, but that (in my opinion a massive majority) are doing it because of bad adverts, not because they're anti-adverts. And my maning about the lie told by the industry is that when a company spending ad money says "what about all the people on your website we see using adblock?" Mr Ad Sales' answer is often (that I've witnessed) to say that those are people who never would have given your advert the time of day in the first place, so it's irrelevant whether they see it or not. (Of course now days with better tracking and better competition, it's more common to see adblock detected and not charged as an impression.)

by Udo 11y ago

corin_ 11y ago

First, you're right that saying nobody was wrong - but I think very few people. Even you, do you really object to advertising, or just the way it's done online? If you get on a train do you hate the fact that there are adverts on there subsidizing the cost of the service? My guess is you don't care as you just ignore them. But that wasn't actually the point I was trying to make. My response to "when you install an ad blocker, you're already exceptionally unlikely to click an ad on purpose" isn't that nobody exists like that, but that (in my opinion a massive majority) are doing it because of bad adverts, not because they're anti-adverts. And my maning about the lie told by the industry is that when a company spending ad money says "what about all the people on your website we see using adblock?" Mr Ad Sales' answer is often (that I've witnessed) to say that those are people who never would have given your advert the time of day in the first place, so it's irrelevant whether they see it or not. (Of course now days with better tracking and better competition, it's more common to see adblock detected and not charged as an impression.)