Ad Blocking Praise — Ad Blocking: It’s A Good Thing

Ad Blocking Praise -- It's A Good ThingAd Blocking Praise — Auto-play video and pop up advertisements have made some websites unusable hence the increasing popularity of ad blocking software.

This stuff has long been available for desktop systems but Apple late last summer made it practical for mobile and did the pigs squeal.

To no avail though.

With a little less greed, though, there would not be a problem.

The point of advertising is to expose one’s product to potential customers. If a website is a bad experience and chases away viewers, exposure is not going to happen no matter how often an ad pops up or how loud the video auto-plays.

And really, isn’t it a tad unethical to sneak trackers onto the computers of potential customers without their full informed consent?

We use Firefox as our browser with the free plug-ins Ghostery and No Script. We see comments on sites cursing the pop ups and the slow loading and wonder what the fuss is. We check the site in another browser without the blockers and learn.

Now, commerce isn’t bad and advertising goes back to the days of the Pennsylvania Gazette.

And websites need support. If a website were to restrict advertisements, however, to .jpgs with a clickable link or even just written classifieds as per Ben Franklin’s paper, products and services would get the necessary publicity, readers would not be chased away and the websites would get the funding they need.

And of course there is nothing wrong with asking for the occasional donation either:




Ad Blocking Praise -- Ad Blocking: It's A Good Thing

But making people miserable by trying to squeeze every cent one can from them is a pretty lousy way to go through life.

Ad Blocking Praise — Ad Blocking: It’s A Good Thing

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