Guy thinks adblock is piracy

[UserNameGoesHere]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

I'll just say this about ads. Ads need to be less Flash (and/or other Rich Internet Application) based and go back to simply gifs, jpegs, and links. No Popups or Popunders either. You'd think this stuff should be common sense to advertisers. I mean if they actually want people to ever buy any of their products, that is.

A well-placed, relevant gif or jpeg will occasionally get a click from me vs. an annoying popup or popunder gets an immediate close (if not outright block in the first place), and a Flash (or other Rich Internet Application) ad uses up too much system resources in addition to being annoying, severely reducing the browsing experience and making me think negatively of the product.

Hint hint advertisers. Lol.

The more "interactive" and "multimedia" you make your ads the less effective they will be and the more people will hate your ads, your company, and your product. Just the facts.

[Jousway]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

wanna know what probably resulted in the creation of this video.

this ******, lets just call him retard that doesnt know shit
well retard that doesnt know shit proably got some expensive hosting because retard that doesnt know shit proably dont know shit about how to get proper hosting.
so retard that doesnt know shit got anal'd ****ed and uses ads to pay for his hosting.
like I got hosting, and I only pay 5 euros per month for it and I dont use ads cuz I dont mind paying 5 euros, but retard that doesnt know shit proably is the typical arrogant shit face that makes money with his little ads so retard that doesnt know shit makes a video like that so people will stop using ad block on his site so that retard that doesnt know shit can make money for his little pathetic wallet

[gnr61]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

damn jous get mad

[leonid]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

jousmad

[SKG_Scintill]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

what's proably?

[top]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

using adblock so these guys get no income isn't stealing. nobody is getting the money so who is stealing? adblock is preventing them from getting money, not taking it for its own.

[Winrar]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

People really do have nothing better to do with their time...

[UserNameGoesHere]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

The funniest part about all of this is it's perfectly feasible to develop website protection against people using ad blockers. It is possible to detect that someone is blocking ads (newgrounds does it -- block ads and they'll display special guilt-trip ones instead). Combine the detection with a refusal on the server-side to serve desired content if the ads are blocked and/or blacklisting IP addresses which block ads.

In other words, there is a technical solution to this. So whining or arguing about it just means one is too incompetent to implement such a technical solution.

Also, it is stealing in the sense that it is using up some of the site's bandwidth, a fixed, paid-for resource. The only thing you're stealing (if you want to think of it like that) is bandwidth, same as if you hotlinked image files or such from elsewhere.

But where there's a technical solution, yaknow, implement that instead of whining to people or lawmakers or whoever.

Also be aware if you force too strenuous requirements on your users or annoy them enough you will lose majority of your userbase, so weigh that as well. (Hint: Stick with strictly gif, jpeg, and text link ads and no popups or popunders)

[Aldentron]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

Sometimes you have to change with the times instead of whining about how your business model is being kicked in the gonads. We see this today with a lot of very traditionalist, well-financed conglomerates trying to fight change with legislation. It's a fool's game in the end, albeit very annoying during the interim.

you used to ride my ass so much for saying things like this. jsin.

as for the topic at hand, we have people who won't pay to view websites, websites that need money to stay available for viewing, and advertisers who will pay money to have their ad hosted on said website. in no way do monetary funds transfer from the people to the website or advertisers. so the cost of viewing a website, according to the website/advertisers, is actually yr attention.

it would probably be a good idea to just separate money from internet entirely, akin to the (faux) separation of church and state in the USA.

[Izzy]

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it would probably be a good idea to just separate money from internet entirely, akin to the (faux) separation of church and state in the USA.

The internet as we know it would die.

[Aldentron]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

oh no! we might start reading books more often!

[rushyrulz]

Re: Guy thinks adblock is piracy

what's a book?