Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide
by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:41PM
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> having it be broken with AdBlock turned on clues me in that something shady is going on
The "something shady" is AdBlock muscling their way into the ad revenue game using you as a way to bludgeon the sites serving the ads. Under no circumstance should an ad blocker prevent the site from working as expected; that's the purview of the site itself.
Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide
by JetSpiegel on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:21PM
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By that argument, people using IE6 are also "bludgeoning the sites serving the ads"?
Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide
by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:23PM
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Yes.
Note here that I'm not against certain kinds of advertising, and I'm all for subscription models and donation incentives and a great many other ways to fund sites. But third party advertising networks have forever lost my trust, and I simply won't tolerate the security risk nor the annoyance any longer. Your site is welcome to require me to disable AdBlock, and that's fine. I don't need to read your posts that badly anyway.