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Chrome has begun blocking especially intrusive adverts https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/good-news-chrome-debuts-automatic-blocking-of-annoying-ads/ .
Will this mean the end of the notorious stw redirects?
[Apologies if this has been done.]
Surely ad block, a chrome extension, has been doing this for years anyway? mine's blocked a total of 255,000...
Getting rid of annoying ads, great, but my inner Google-sceptic wonders where this might be heading...
[b]alpineharry[/b] wrote:
Surely ad block, a chrome extension, has been doing this for years anyway? mine’s blocked a total of 255,000…
Not on mobile it hasn't. Though it's also interesting how this new functionality is designed to work - it doesn't block all ads, hence responsible site owners will actually get more revenue from those like me who don't mind ads and only use blockers because of the irritating ones.
Oddly enough I had some sort of Google prize thing override STW earlier, telling me I had X-amount of time to respond to win the prize, and I couldn’t even back-space out of it, I had to kill the tab and reopen STW. What’s odd is I don’t use Google, I use DuckDuckGo, but this intrusion seemed to use my IP address.
No way was I going to click anything to respond to it.
Surely ad block, a chrome extension, has been doing this for years anyway? mine’s blocked a total of 255,000…
Adblocker blocks Googles revenue from ads which is a problem for them also a number of sites stop you from acessing with Adblocker running. Rogue ad prevention is important to maintain ad revenue until people are willing to pay for content.
Rogue ad prevention is important to maintain ad revenue until people are willing to pay for content.
I think it's that as well, nothing suspicious. Google make money from ad revenue and if more people are using blockers because of badly behaved video ads that hurts them. It's been out in beta since last Dec iirc
Also a number of sites stop you from accessing with Adblocker running.
I run another extension - Personal block list - those sites/domains get added to that, they then don't appear in my search results.
Is adblocking even as big a problem as made out? 16% usage in the UK according to this report (hover mouse over each country on the map) so 84% don't block ads. That's an overall figure though, some sites will see more/less depending on the technical savvyness of their visitors.
Paying for content? Some sites get away with it, some don't. There's a few payment models around: paywall, subscription, partial paywall, don't think I've seen micro-payments. I think the last is the most promising - the content provider could implement time based pricing so new articles cost a premium then over time they reduce in cost until they get to a base price. Actual payments are £X up front so there's only one actual payment, the system just deducts from it as you use the site and visit/read articles, only one payment per article so you can read it multiple times.