BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising Pressure

Re:BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising P... by manigandham on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:56AM (#9402273)

It's hard to do. Adblock plugins work at the network layer and block requests completely based on matching the urls. This makes to engineer around, especially because lots of sites don't have lots of developer talent or resources.

Example: PageFair was a company that measured adblock usage and also showed messages like this, until their javascript tag got on the adblock list and suddenly their entire platform because useless.

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Re:BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising P... by sukilot on Sunday April 19, 2015 @11:26AM (#9403498)

Publishers need to take responsibility for their content. You want me to view an ad? Fine,serve it to me. Don't tell me to go download an ad from someone else.

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Re:BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising P... by ticviking on Sunday April 19, 2015 @12:18PM (#9403677)

An interesting idea, and one I'll note seems to work.

I think the bigger issue is the trusting someone to do data-collection for ads. When everything is "pay per click" or "pay per eyeball" both sides have incentive to engage in click-fraud. All these awful networks seem to be solving that issue by creating a third party who has to attract both advertisers, and affiliates, and thus shares(at least partially) the motives of both parties

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