When Adblock takes over

I think the problem is in the other side: there are too many greedy webmasters who pulling too many ads in all the possible ways with lots of kinds of ads, on some websites is even hard to figure out where is actually a website content. If all the websites would have reasonable amount of ad spaces, then very small % of internet users would be needing such extensions as AdBlock.
 
Invisible said:
I think the problem is in the other side: there are too many greedy webmasters who pulling too many ads in all the possible ways with lots of kinds of ads, on some websites is even hard to figure out where is actually a website content. If all the websites would have reasonable amount of ad spaces, then very small % of internet users would be needing such extensions as AdBlock.
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Agreed. If ads are needed then they should be unobtrusive. Misleading adverts and ones which distract users or detract from the website design are the reasons why AdBlock is gaining in popularity.
 
Invisible said:
I think the problem is in the other side: there are too many greedy webmasters who pulling too many ads in all the possible ways with lots of kinds of ads, on some websites is even hard to figure out where is actually a website content. If all the websites would have reasonable amount of spaces, then very small % of internet users would be needing such extensions as AdBlock.
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marka87uk said:
Agreed. If ads are needed then they should be unobtrusive. Misleading adverts and ones which distract users or detract from the website design are the reasons why AdBlock is gaining in popularity.
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Yeah, but adblock, by default, is pretty much blocking everything, not just the ones it should block, and most users simply don´t care enough to go through all the trouble of whitelisting some ad blocks. So, what adblock does is block pretty much everything.
 
I don't understand how adblock works. From what I've seen (as I've never used it) it is an extension in Chrome, so why doesn't Google (who makes Chrome) block adblock from running? Or not allow adblock to be added as an extension in the first place?
 
ilikepstrophies said:
I don't understand how adblock works. From what I've seen (as I've never used it) it is an extension in Chrome, so why doesn't Google (who makes Chrome) block adblock from running? Or not allow adblock to be added as an extension in the first place?
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Because people would just use other browsers that allow it.
 
I feel as if adblock will not be given the oppertunity to take over. Google would shut it down immediately if it seemed to be a threat because you know google makes a ton of profit from adwords to advertise and they only make that profit if adwords shows ads without being blocked. Tha being said they take the profit from adwords and pay a small percent to adsnese thus paying you to advertise so as long as google makes money adblock will not hold strong.

At least that is what I believe. Google wouldn't want to lose that huge portion of profit they make from people and businesses advertising.
 
Krow said:
Neither of those solutions is actually THE solution we need.
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Google already pays some ad blocking services to be whitelisted by default, but that isn't really the solution either as users can simply go into the settings and set it to block all ads anyway. If it really became a big issue some kind of litigation or the threat of litigation that will be what puts an end to ad blockers blocking Youtube and/or google and maybe sites in general. Google has a lot of clout...they won't just sit idly by and watch themselves be deprived of revenue, especially since Youtube hasn't even had a profitable year yet.
 
WilliamRayWalters said:
Google already pays some ad blocking services to be whitelisted by default, but that isn't really the solution either as users can simply go into the settings and set it to block all ads anyway. If it really became a big issue some kind of litigation or the threat of litigation that will be what puts an end to ad blockers blocking Youtube and/or google and maybe sites in general. Google has a lot of clout...they won't just sit idly by and watch themselves be deprived of revenue, especially since Youtube hasn't even had a profitable year yet.
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But that´s basically what they´re doing and they don´t seem to have an answer for it.

As far paying the ad blockers, i guess that´s true, but i see all google ads being blocked by default by ad blocker.
 
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