I heard Ars Technica's Ken Fisher reading this on NPR yesterday...
"Blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love. I am not making an argument that blocking ads is a form of stealing, or is immoral... It can result in people losing their jobs, it can result in less content on any given site..."
SHUT UP
I've rarely wanted to pimp-block someone so bad...
"blah blah...Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads."
no we don't
If these poor abused companies have really staked the quantity and quality of their content and the jobs of their afflicted employees on a mechanism so fragile it's utterly defeated by a check box, then they're stupid and they'll die; the business model they've chosen is horribly flawed. Someone smarter should take their place.
Advertising will NEVER go away, but popup ads are universally despised. There's probably a better way. Find it.
IN REFERENCE TO: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars (view on Google Sidewiki)
"Blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love. I am not making an argument that blocking ads is a form of stealing, or is immoral... It can result in people losing their jobs, it can result in less content on any given site..."
SHUT UP
I've rarely wanted to pimp-block someone so bad...
"blah blah...Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads."
no we don't
If these poor abused companies have really staked the quantity and quality of their content and the jobs of their afflicted employees on a mechanism so fragile it's utterly defeated by a check box, then they're stupid and they'll die; the business model they've chosen is horribly flawed. Someone smarter should take their place.
Advertising will NEVER go away, but popup ads are universally despised. There's probably a better way. Find it.
IN REFERENCE TO: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars (view on Google Sidewiki)
