Comments on: “Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love” http://www.cubeecraft.com/blog/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love/ on cubeecraft.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:17:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: aerozol http://www.cubeecraft.com/blog/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love/comment-page-1/#comment-8478 aerozol Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:14:04 +0000 http://www.cubeecraft.com/blog/?p=3260#comment-8478 While I understand the issue, the problem isn't sites that keep the ads unobtrusive. It's the exceptions, such as sites that run flash ads, ads with music, popups, etc etc Blocking these does end up inadvertently hurting the sites that do it right, but unleashing control of what you have to view when you're surfing, even if it's only to a small amount of advertisers who are obviously collossal douchebags, isn't a step I want to take. Or would really recommend. A good question is, why is there a demand for an adblocker at all? if it wasn't necessary, which it shouldn't be, it wouldn't exist. Unblocking sites you want to support is a good idea of course! I have a website that relys on ad clicks/ views to survive as well, for the hosting and domain, and I have the link to Adblock advertised on it, with notes on how to unblock sites they want to support. If you're getting a lot of mail about the site not functioning, maybe a little note at the bottom, or link, about AdBlock (with appropriate descriptions eg how to unblock sites), might be a good idea.. AdBlock has this response to the article on their site: http://adblockplus.org/blog/the-devastating-effects-of-ad-blocking I'm currently pretty for using a blocker, since I'm stuck on a (oold) laptop with windows 2000 (I know), without support for adblock. Every now and again the computer lags for five minutes, or crashes completely... And only sites that allow Flash/ Any advertising, or have 5+ animated banners. And there are still people out there with dial-up.. It sucks, they suck, and I can't wait to browse normally again. While I understand the issue, the problem isn’t sites that keep the ads unobtrusive. It’s the exceptions, such as sites that run flash ads, ads with music, popups, etc etc
Blocking these does end up inadvertently hurting the sites that do it right, but unleashing control of what you have to view when you’re surfing, even if it’s only to a small amount of advertisers who are obviously collossal douchebags, isn’t a step I want to take. Or would really recommend. A good question is, why is there a demand for an adblocker at all? if it wasn’t necessary, which it shouldn’t be, it wouldn’t exist.
Unblocking sites you want to support is a good idea of course!

I have a website that relys on ad clicks/ views to survive as well, for the hosting and domain, and I have the link to Adblock advertised on it, with notes on how to unblock sites they want to support.
If you’re getting a lot of mail about the site not functioning, maybe a little note at the bottom, or link, about AdBlock (with appropriate descriptions eg how to unblock sites), might be a good idea..

AdBlock has this response to the article on their site:
http://adblockplus.org/blog/the-devastating-effects-of-ad-blocking

I’m currently pretty for using a blocker, since I’m stuck on a (oold) laptop with windows 2000 (I know), without support for adblock. Every now and again the computer lags for five minutes, or crashes completely… And only sites that allow Flash/ Any advertising, or have 5+ animated banners. And there are still people out there with dial-up..
It sucks, they suck, and I can’t wait to browse normally again.

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