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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1679407"><p>Lisa: you do realise that without ads, this site -- and every site you like -- will go dark, right?</p><p></p><p>"Acceptable ads" is generally taken to mean non-flashing, non-animated, non-sound and generally non-annoying ads ... the thing ad lockers were originally built to stop. Without ads, the Internet as we know it would LITERALLY COLLAPSE. I don't know specifically what Ad Blocker meant, but the makers of ad blockers have started to realise the VERY REAL damage they are doing, so a number of them are now allowing non-annoying ads.</p><p></p><p>Until recently, universal ad blockers were used by so small a percentage of users -- the really savvy people -- that it was barely tolerated. Now ad blockers are mainstream, and it is VERY literally killing websites.</p><p></p><p>There's a number of gaming, Mac and general tech sites I used to read that have gone under in just the last year -- the one I work for nearly did, and it's not that they weren't profitable, it was that ad revenue was shrinking so quickly with nothing viable to replace it (count the number of "premium members" here for a reality check on THAT option) that they had to shut down before they either went broke or had to reduce their staff to a level that would kill the quality.</p><p></p><p>If you have a VIABLE idea on how to replace that lost revenue, please share it. Otherwise, you're part of the problem, demanding in effect that website operators run their sites at a huge loss, and when this site goes under your universal ad blocker will have less ... And less, and less as we go on ... to block.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1679407"] Lisa: you do realise that without ads, this site -- and every site you like -- will go dark, right? "Acceptable ads" is generally taken to mean non-flashing, non-animated, non-sound and generally non-annoying ads ... the thing ad lockers were originally built to stop. Without ads, the Internet as we know it would LITERALLY COLLAPSE. I don't know specifically what Ad Blocker meant, but the makers of ad blockers have started to realise the VERY REAL damage they are doing, so a number of them are now allowing non-annoying ads. Until recently, universal ad blockers were used by so small a percentage of users -- the really savvy people -- that it was barely tolerated. Now ad blockers are mainstream, and it is VERY literally killing websites. There's a number of gaming, Mac and general tech sites I used to read that have gone under in just the last year -- the one I work for nearly did, and it's not that they weren't profitable, it was that ad revenue was shrinking so quickly with nothing viable to replace it (count the number of "premium members" here for a reality check on THAT option) that they had to shut down before they either went broke or had to reduce their staff to a level that would kill the quality. If you have a VIABLE idea on how to replace that lost revenue, please share it. Otherwise, you're part of the problem, demanding in effect that website operators run their sites at a huge loss, and when this site goes under your universal ad blocker will have less ... And less, and less as we go on ... to block. [/QUOTE]
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