Comments on: How to Keep AdBlock From Hiding Your Ads

By: dreamsburnred

dreamsburnred — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:12:54 +0000

Personally I do not use adblock. As well the websites that I view none of them have annoying ads..except for pc world. Sites like cnet.com, engadget.com, filehippo.com, and my blog have ads that are related to the content but don't scream click me!!

As well ads for free content is just fine.

By: randomnut

randomnut — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:54 +0000

Using the Internet without AdBlock has become funny. It’s just like in the comedy movies. Screen full of ads.
Once more people become aware of AdBlock, push advertising will come to an end. That is ethical, in my oppinion.
I believe the only advertising that should be done is the ‘pull’ type, where the user REQUESTS ads – for example when they need a product.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:58:48 +0000

"You're actually making something to force somebody to download something against their will."

Nobody's forcing you to load the page. That's your choice entirely. So if you buy a magazine, I suppose the ads in there are being loaded against your will as well? A web page is a finished product, like a magazine. If you load it, you get the whole package. Besides, you would be the one blocking ads against my will. The ads pay for the site; if you can't put up with unobtrusive (yes, unobtrusive, have you looked?) advertisements, then don't read it. That's entirely your choice.

By: Aerik

Aerik — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:35:34 +0000

Wow. You’re a douchebag. You’re actually making something to force somebody to download something against their will.

Look, you could just ask users to not adblock your site. You could even provide us with a list of whitelisting filters that apply only to your site. You could even create your own subscription that applies only to your site that updates as you update your site.

But no. Instead of communicating with your users, you went around them, you got sneaky.

Douchebag.

By: Claude Gelinas

Claude Gelinas — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:10:28 +0000

Thaya makes excellent points, in his previous comments!

As a full time, independent web publisher, I hardly have time to create content -and- sell ads. Using Google's AdSense ads makes sense, no pun intended, for me.

Unfortunately, the rise of ad blocking extensions have slashed my revenues by close to 70%, which is a financial stress that I've had to make up for by charging visitors for premium content, elsewhere, which is sad for the people who now have to pay for stuff that was previously offered for free.

All of that because of Adblock Plus and similar extensions hurting web publishers.

The "everything is blocked out of the box" approach of these extensions are killing the free web, by the day. Google will survive because they serve their own ads, in their own networks, without using any JavaScript but the web publishers (affiliates) will get hit much harder and lots of them will have to look for alternatives.

In my view, people using ad blocking extensions —who know what harm it does to web publishers— are nothing short of freeloaders.

By: jazmine

jazmine — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:28:09 +0000

so if u have any add is it hard to deal with no!!!!!

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:11:43 +0000

@Thaya

Oh well, your other two points were still good.

By: thaya

thaya — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:37:10 +0000

@Artem Russakovskii
You are right. There are actually two ways AdBlock blocks advertisements. Once is to hide HTML elements and others to intercept HTTP requests (used on direct media requets, i.e. .jpg, .png, etc.) Boy, I feel stupid now. Sorry for the misinformation!

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:01:25 +0000

While I support relevant advertising and enjoy this topic, I want to point out a possible inaccuracy in Thaya's explanation of "AdBlock makes internet faster".

I am fairly sure that Adblock Plus does prevent the actual download of blocked elements. For example, I block off a certain annoying .wav file that nagios uses to signify errors and it never gets downloaded. Since it's a sound and I don't hear it, I don't think it's just manipulated by some CSS property and therefore it's possible to use Adblock to save bandwidth.

I could be wrong though.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:34:03 +0000

Thank you, Thaya, for helping to keep the comments here from becoming one big AdBlock Plus commercial. You certainly have some good points.

To everyone who objects to this article, note that I am simply demonstrating, not saying “everyone should do this.” In fact, I greatly discourage the use of these methods by sites that run obnoxious ads. I intend it for the sites that do “add value” to their ads. You should read my full opinion on ad blocking here: http://www.webmaster-source.co.....cking-ads/