Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users

Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:10PM (#12256591)

paulddraper is pointing out that if the user has an adblocker, they will never notice whether your ads are intrusive or not.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by ihsw on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:24PM (#12256703)

There is no chance to recover a user after they install an adblocker.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by danielweber on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:16PM (#12257400)

After they install an ad-blocker anywhere. The site in question could always been been nice and unobtrusive with their ads. It makes no difference for most users.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by daveguy on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:04PM (#12257350)

Unless you stop using ad networks and just inline unobtrusive text ads?

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:25PM (#12257451)

This is a trap. If you make your ads content-like, and integrate them into your content, then people will say your site is deceptive, hiding ads in content so people read them like factual articles.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by corobo on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:40PM (#12257561)

You don't need to make them content-like. Have ad sections that are just text. I can't recall the name of the site but that one Mac-related site that does text ads seems to be doing pretty well at it. Please if someone does know the site I mean let me know it's on the tip of my tongue!

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by angry-hacker on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:24PM (#12257802)

The inventor of markdown. Fireball something. But it's really an exception.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by corobo on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:44PM (#12257917)

Daring Fireball, that's the one! Of course it's an exception - no other bugger tries, opting to instead chuck adsense all over the place.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by K0nserv on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @04:13AM (#12260220)

John uses Deck[0] for Daring Fireball

0: http://decknetwork.net/

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by corobo on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:00AM (#12260557)

Didn't realise there were also adverts on the site. I was more talking about the feed sponsorship

http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by nzp on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:20PM (#12263780)

Deck is the only decent ad network I'm aware of, so I keep them unblocked. The fact that you haven't noticed he has ads on the site speaks enough.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by corobo on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:35PM (#12263875)

I'm not a mac user so I only ever visit the site when I double check he's still doing the sponsored feed thing before using the site as an example of non-ad income.

Unfortunately however I didn't notice it as uBlock Origin had blocked it.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by nzp on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:53PM (#12263988)

I find his podcast relaxing (well, most of the time) to listen to even though I'm not a Mac user either. I think he mentioned Deck a couple of times, so I turned uBlock off to see, and hey, they really are reasonable and tasteful, so I left it open for them. They're not getting almost anything from me since I very rarely visit sites in their network, but I leave them on on principle. I don't mind ads, I mind being digitally and visually raped.

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