Possible could you send me by email vuthy.rf@gmail.com

So a few peas spoil the pod, and all ads get blocked. Personally, as a PPC advertiser and a consumer myself, I look forward to an evolution away from ads. It’s a really unengaging model that nobody enjoys. The web host has to allow ugly, often deceiving ads onto their site, risking an SEO hit, and consumers need to wait for and maneuver around flashing, often audible ads just to read a blog post about nothing or watch a video of a cat.

But that response was 4 years ago, and ad blocking has doubled over since then. I’m curious what Bob thinks today, and how well his ad farm’s doing.

i get that adblocking is bad for a websites bottom line but damn it when will they learn that people pay more attention to “SERIOUS” ads rather than flashy gimmicks that disrupt the users ability to navigate a site.

the issue with ad blocking is it is just easier than trusting a developer to not annoy their users.

i mean i belong to a few websites dedicated to video game reviews and mods. and where one would think that this type of site would use the flashy video and audio monstrosity most of these sites use text or banner ads on the top and borders. lord knows i have actually purchased some of the advertised games that i otherwise would have completely missed.

so take advice from the gamer nerds they know how to build websites that don’t piss people off

I was designing a website, and certain images (such as icons for my buttons) weren’t showing up when live. All the standard inspection tools said everything was fine.

It turns out ad blockers can be pretty nasty for even non-ad sites, by SILENTLY blocking LOCAL, INNOCUOUS, TINY files if they simply contain a keyword like “ad” in their path. In my case I was using something like “../images/ad-types/blah.png”.

I wonder how much legitimate content is being unknowingly blocked from websites that happen to use the wrong filename? It seems that ad blocker testing should now become a standard part of the design process, since the over-zealous extensions are very popular. My next recommendation would be to ditch them or have the default be click-to-hide, but it’s doubtful that ad blocker devs and users will ever head in that direction.

I have mixed feelings about the ethics of ad blocking. But I’m wary that the more that ads cheat the blocking, the more loose the detection conditions will become, making the above situation more common. I would suggest that ad-supported sites offer a fallback image that politely notifies the user the reason their site is free, and/or offers the option of a one-time donation to eliminate ads (OkCupid does both of these things, in addition to optional “premium” pay accounts).

Anyway, I hope your post helps many others with the issue I encountered, and continues to stir the whole ethics debate.

I’m working on re-showing ads blocked on my site or blocking the users from seeing, free loading (leeching) users are worthless to me so they can jog on for all I care.