Comments on: Is AdBlock “Evil”?

By: Pvblivs

Pvblivs — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:32:00 +0000

I haven’t watched television in years. The quality really suffered. And I suppose it is to be expected. Quality programming costs money. And, when viewers are trying to “miss the ads,” broadcasters put in more ads so that attempting to miss the ads will also miss key bits of the program. And even then, they can’t afford good writing; so you get lousy programs. Yes, I think going out of your way to avoid ads is stealing, and has made television the cesspool it is today.

Ads on websites are easy to avoid. Just don’t go to the websites in question. The problem is that people want to take the content without paying the listed price. Annoying ads are a good reason not to visit a site at all. They are not a good reason to use Adblock and visit the site anyway.

By: Dimpl

Dimpl — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:26:02 +0000

Blocked too many ads, so I disabled it, but am looking into a way to block bad websites that I come across.

By: Dimpl

Dimpl — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:23:16 +0000

I just installed adblock, as I just discovered that there is an option to allow non-intrusive ads.

By: Someone

Someone — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:57:35 +0000

Also, ABP is pretty crappish. Use NoScript instead, THAT is an anti-ad-software. Pure evil, so to speak.

On topic: I will never-ever-EVER going to click on any ad because you never know to what unsanitary places they may take you. Hence, I need not waste CPU time on them, let alone patience. I also “block” TV ads by changing the channel. Maybe people should sell their stuff by it being worth to be bought again, and not them shouting the loudest.

By: todd g

todd g — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:51:19 +0000

yep

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:04:13 +0000

Cool.

And the new site goes live next week…?

By: todd g

todd g — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:29:01 +0000

yeah, definitely, once we get the new version live next week and then finish off the new version of the ad code we'll be devoting some time to the wpplugin stuff.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:21:27 +0000

I tried asking too, and got a similar response. So I did a *little* bit of trolling in the thread. They were so unreasonable I couldn't resist…

Just wondering, have you considered mentioning Thaya's BSA plugin on the BuySellAds blog? http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-plugins/buy-sell-… It's helped increase my impression estimate significantly.

By: todd g

todd g — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:47:29 +0000

i think it's under "s3.buysellads.com" in easylist. I tried to get them to remove it from the list: http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=2… but once I learned of the gentleman's attitude that runs the list I immediately realized that it would be a waste of time. And, even with over 10K users at BSA right now I doubt that a petition with even all members signing would change his mind (especially since they're BSA users ). So, the best course of action in my opinion is to work around it in the code like redwall_hp has done with his BSA plugin. HOWEVER, despite the heavy usage of easylist/adblock, stats are still looking pretty good these days for the majority of our advertisers and we don't have time to wage this war just yet.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:10:17 +0000

"My thinking is that if you felt like you needed Adblock, you should hang out in a better neighborhood "

Not a bad idea. I still maintain that the reason AdBlock came into existence was out of people's irritation from the explosion of ads in more recent years. In other words, it's the ad networks' fault.

"I haven't taken any steps at all against adblockers, but it occurs to me that this software is most effective at removing non-intrusive ads (like adsense) and does little about ads that would make you bang your keyboard in a rage."

True. I was livid when I saw that BuySellAds.com had been added to the ever-popular EasyList filter that most AdBlock users run. Finally an ad network promoting good banner practices (they don't even allow Flash!) and decent payment for the publishers, and the AdBlockers go and add it to their blacklist…

I have a couple newer posts on these topics, if you're interested.

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” target=”_blank”>http://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/03/13/buysel…
” target=”_blank”>http://www.webmaster-source.com/2008/12/28/how-to…