Is anyone working on fighting adblockers?

Re:Is anyone working on fighting adblockers? by bediger4000 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:05PM (#11212597)

Yes, this is a complete waste of time. Everyone has a moral right to control what their computer does, and many don't want to download ads. To work on fighting ad blockers (in the general sense) is arguably an immoral act, and probably puts you on the slippery slope to spamming, and once you're a spammer, well, bad breath and bad manners can't be far behind.

I dumped Ad Block Plus when I became aware of the whitelisting of certain advertisers. I use uBlock and NoScript on some machines, Privacy Badger and NoScript on others. I also use my home DNS aggregator to block major advertisers like doubleclick. This is my right and privilege.

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Re:Is anyone working on fighting adblockers? by taewookim on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @05:01PM (#11213382)

So would you pay for information instead? Would you be ok paying $10-20/year for every site that you block ads on?

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Re:Is anyone working on fighting adblockers? by bediger4000 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @11:11PM (#11214983)

Maybe for a few, krebsonsecurity, probably, Comics Curmudgeon and Washington Post, possibly. Very few others. I'd have to see. I don't think very many web sites have anything like content worth even $20/year. And no, I didn't subscribe to many magazines in the past, but I did subscribe to a newspaper, until it folded, leaving the other newspaper in town to take a very conservative editorial swerve.

As it stands, I just don't click on wired.com, forbes.com, wsj.com and nytimes.com URLs.

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