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The misuse of that meme is terrifying.
There's two sides to this argument. Anyone who has seen the early days of the internet (and by extension this still applies to some sites that operate today) will be able to tell you without a doubt why ad blockers came into existence. And this was before Google came around to streamline things, mind you. Sites were plastered with ads. And the really bad sites would have flashy banners, p**n pop ups, pop unders, opening 24 new browsers with nothing but advertisements. It got out of control REALLY bad and ad blockers were nothing but a natural response as the internet matured. Advertisers shot themselves in the foot.
However the internet has matured a lot since then, coming on what, 30 years? Google has done a lot of work making acceptable ad policies that many other publishers have since adopted and the very existence of ad blockers encourages site owners to consider their visitors when displaying ads. The day and age of flashy banners with misleading advertisements are long gone unless you visit shady p**n or torrent sites. In turn, ad blockers have gone from a necessity to a convenience. Ad blockers are installed with 2 clicks, so why not use them? People no longer stop to think that ads literally fund over 50% of the internet and are quick to be angry at any other money making solutions (see YouTube Red and the sh*t storm that caused).
As a web developer I'd say yes, find a way to kill ad blockers and make sure none of them work anymore. As a consumer though, some sites still take way too many liberties with ad placement, making their visitors nothing but a cash cow to generate ad impressions and I like being able to block those.
If YouTube/Google were to announce a method of 100% killing ad blockers and implement it, it would cause a huge sh*t storm that would threaten not only YouTube as a platform but also Google/Alphabet as a company. It would be incredibly bad PR that they might never recover from even if they would reverse their decision the next day. And just for that reason it will never happen. YouTube Red is their way of offering users an alternative and raising awareness that running a website costs money. That is a much better path to take rather than forcing everyone to watch ads.
Your monthly internet bill pays for the hardware and logistics of operating your physical internet connection and all the corporate costs that come with it. Not a single cent of that money goes to the websites you visit, but I'm sure you know that, which begs the question; why bring up such a non-argument?
There's two sides to this argument. Anyone who has seen the early days of the internet (and by extension this still applies to some sites that operate today) will be able to tell you without a doubt why ad blockers came into existence. And this was before Google came around to streamline things, mind you. Sites were plastered with ads. And the really bad sites would have flashy banners, p**n pop ups, pop unders, opening 24 new browsers with nothing but advertisements. It got out of control REALLY bad and ad blockers were nothing but a natural response as the internet matured. Advertisers shot themselves in the foot.
However the internet has matured a lot since then, coming on what, 30 years? Google has done a lot of work making acceptable ad policies that many other publishers have since adopted and the very existence of ad blockers encourages site owners to consider their visitors when displaying ads. The day and age of flashy banners with misleading advertisements are long gone unless you visit shady p**n or torrent sites. In turn, ad blockers have gone from a necessity to a convenience. Ad blockers are installed with 2 clicks, so why not use them? People no longer stop to think that ads literally fund over 50% of the internet and are quick to be angry at any other money making solutions (see YouTube Red and the sh*t storm that caused).
As a web developer I'd say yes, find a way to kill ad blockers and make sure none of them work anymore. As a consumer though, some sites still take way too many liberties with ad placement, making their visitors nothing but a cash cow to generate ad impressions and I like being able to block those.
If YouTube/Google were to announce a method of 100% killing ad blockers and implement it, it would cause a huge sh*t storm that would threaten not only YouTube as a platform but also Google/Alphabet as a company. It would be incredibly bad PR that they might never recover from even if they would reverse their decision the next day. And just for that reason it will never happen. YouTube Red is their way of offering users an alternative and raising awareness that running a website costs money. That is a much better path to take rather than forcing everyone to watch ads.
Kill adblockers? What do you want to kill next? Filesharing? Or cracks?
Oh, and on getting everything for "free" on the Internet: My monthly Internet bills say otherwise.
Your monthly internet bill pays for the hardware and logistics of operating your physical internet connection and all the corporate costs that come with it. Not a single cent of that money goes to the websites you visit, but I'm sure you know that, which begs the question; why bring up such a non-argument?