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Re:What's developers' general attitude towards ads? on Sunday March 06, 2016 @05:30PM (#11235889)
Very detailed explanation. Thanks.

What's developers' general attitude towards ads?

I'm a developer who happens to do a lot of marketing simultaneously. I've been in a lot of intense debates about adblockers and how they affect publishers as well as advertisers, but also the other side, the adblocker users.I've been in several meeting where ad tech devs were proposing all kinds of solutions, like content blocking, "encrypting" ad delivery, etc etc.But I realize I'm talking to...

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Re:Is anyone working on fighting adblockers? 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?

Is anyone working on fighting adblockers?

I'm pretty sure most people will think this is a waste of time, but the concept of ad blocker is equivalent of using a nuclear weapon to catch a few bad thieves. Sure there are few idiots who misuse and annoy people.. and even abuse ad tech to do evil things (spreading malware via flash, for ex.), but lots of innocent people who mean well also get hurt in the process. Website owners who produce...

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