Comments on: Why I stopped using ad blockers, and started appreciating unique or instructional content

By: jake302

jake302 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:38:09 +0000

I place adblock on every pc I build.

By: Ken Mitchell

Ken Mitchell — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:41:47 +0000

Oli, you are right. Publishers don’t get paid when an ad is blocked.

Also, adblockers don’t stop popups. Popup blockers stop popups. Adblockers would only stop the content in the popup from appearing.

As far as donating to every author I get useful information from goes, do you realize how many useful articles I read a day?

By: Oli

Oli — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:49:03 +0000

Two main points here:
a) Publishers can block adblock if they want to.
b) Users can whitelist sites they want to see advertising on.

(a) is too evil and (b) is too rare. If you want to really reward somebody for teaching you something, paypal them a few dollars. That’s not a lot to you and a lot more than they’d get from advertising clicks.

Re Carl:

It matters not whether you see the adds on some site, the creator of it makes money on it whether you see it or not.

That’s just not true. If the advertising provider is good at anything, they know when browsers actually load up adverts. Plus, most advertising for lower-end publishers, bloggers, etc is CPC (cost per click) or CPA (cost per action) and only pays out on clicks or purchases, respectively.

By: John Pospisil

John Pospisil — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:32:40 +0000

Dear Smerball,

As it happens we do have writers (one in particular, I’ll let you guess who that might be), who support your position 110%.

Ken was simply providing his opinion, as you’ve done. THAT is what BLORGE is about – sharing ideas, and sometimes agreeing to disagree.

All readers are welcome at TECH.BLORGE.com whether they use ad blockers or not. Our primary mission isn’t to serve ads, it’s to inform, keep people up to date with news, and to stimulate discussion.

Yes of course we run ads to offset the expenses of paying people to write, but as I’ve said. that’s NOT WHY we do what we do.

Hope that gives you an idea of where we’re coming from.

All the best

John

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:22:02 +0000

It matters not whether you see the adds on some site, the creator of it makes money on it whether you see it or not.
If I had a nickel for every add I’ve seen on-line, I would be a millionaire.
We need add blockers now MORE than we ever did, I would be SWAMPED with adds and pop-ups if I browsed without blockers!

C@RL

By: Albuquerque realtor

Albuquerque realtor — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:01:15 +0000

I completely understand your point, but I will continue to use my ad blocker. I get annoyed quickly with sites that spam you with pop-ups.

By: smerball

smerball — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:36:21 +0000

dear ken mitchell
you are so off of my buddy list and anyone else sympathetic to advertisers will be removed also. we are not at the point where we can disable adblockers. quite contrary, we need more adblockers. you show me an honest, unbiased, straight-forward, user-friendly, non-deceptive advertisement and i’ll show you a lying, deceptive, fraudulant, biased, hidden agenda, theiving, obnoxious company behind the advertisement. i am getting so sick and tired of being treated as nothing but a commodity by lame so called content publishers. i have not only added many ad servers to my block list but i’ve also started to add the stupid content publishers websites to my hosts file just for spite so that i won’t ever see their stinking website again. i really don’t care about the content if it comes with obnoxious ads. tech.blorge.com is very close to being added to my hosts file because of this article. a simple edit of 127.0.0.1 tech.blorge.com is all it takes.
advertisers need to humble themselves and be less sensational and less obnoxious and less aggressive before they’ll be allowed on my computer.
thank you.