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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by thirdsun on Monday April 04, 2016 @06:28AM (#11420714)
Same here - I'm not that concerned about targeted ads, but if it means significant consequences for my bandwidth, security, performance or simply being able to use the site as intended, well, then I don't seem to have a realistic choice.

That said, I think there's room for an adblocker that focuses on ads that are too intrusive and whitelists decent, static ads automatically. Currently I do that manually on a per site basis.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by freehunter on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:17AM (#11421613)
Adblock Plus does that. Ad networks can in some fashion request their ads be unblocked, and ABP does some sort of review (I'm not sure how it all works, I don't use it).
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by thirdsun on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:25AM (#11421656)
I'm not sure, but isn't that review process basically a transaction of money? As in buying your way out of being blocked? That's probably the last thing I'd want.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by freehunter on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:43AM (#11422732)
Fair enough. I know I had heard something about them unblocking "non-intrusive ads" but didn't really pay attention to the details.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by fucking_tragedy on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:33AM (#11421708)
Ad networks pay ABP to be whitelisted. That is their review process.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by Karunamon on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:45AM (#11422750)
In fairness, they don't just whitelist any old ad, there's ostensibly a review and guidelines that must be followed, but at the end of the day, it's still a colossal conflict of interest.
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