Chrome's built-in Adblocker launching on the 15th of February

[Hypersot]

This is what caught my attention:
It’s important to note that some sites affected by this change may also contain Google ads. To us, your experience on the web is a higher priority than the money that these annoying ads may generate—even for us.

Full article here:
https://9to5google.com/2018/02/14/google-chrome-ad-blocker-launch/

 

[MapleDots]

so why do you say its too bad?

Because some people would want to whitelist parking companies.
I actually prefer to see those pages because I am in the business.

With the urls as I stated that would be entirely possible.

 

[alcy]

That's not the way it works. Voodoo.com doesn't use subdomains or /domains/, it only uses domain1.com

Donny

Donny you said before you keep good track of how many of your visitors use adblockers and the types etc.. can you share those stats here? ty

 

[MapleDots]

Donny you said before you keep good track of how many of your visitors use adblockers and the types etc.. can you share those stats here? ty

With some of the newer user scripts out there is really no way to tell this exactly alcy. The whole point of some of the scripts is to hide the fact that an ad blocker is being used at all, therefore effectively bypassing the please unblock us nag screen.

Some of the forums I am on have discussed this in the past and how it is getting harder and harder for websites to detect the use of blockers. Therefore I don't think anyone can accurately predict the level of use anymore.

The only answer is a compromise from both sides.

Here is an example for me (personal)

I would remove my adblocker if...

- Nothing auto played
- nothing flashed
- same ad would not re-appear several times on a page

I think if that alone was implemented a lot of people would give up on adblockers. I remember I looked at a printer on amazon and I was fed an ad at staples for the same printer 100 bucks off. Who would not want handy ads like that?

PS. I often whitelist places to get the ads because some of them are quite helpful.

 

[alcy]

With some of the newer user scripts out there is really no way to tell this exactly alcy. The whole point of some of the scripts is to hide the fact that an ad blocker is being used at all, therefore effectively bypassing the please unblock us nag screen.

Some of the forums I am on have discussed this in the past and how it is getting harder and harder for websites to detect the use of blockers. Therefore I don't think anyone can accurately predict the level of use anymore.

The only answer is a compromise from both sides.

Here is an example for me (personal)

I would remove my adblocker if...

- Nothing auto played
- nothing flashed
- same ad would not re-appear several times on a page

I think if that alone was implemented a lot of people would give up on adblockers. I remember I looked at a printer on amazon and I was fed an ad at staples for the same printer 100 bucks off. Who would not want handy ads like that?

PS. I often whitelist places to get the ads because some of them are quite helpful.

well I only asked because Donny once said (another thread) they keep good track and stats on these things. and since many here are wondering, I thought I'd ask to post. but his silence probably means we're getting absolutely nada about that. cheers.

 

[alcy]

@alcy - It's a little complicated to give you an exact number on how many people are using an adblocker that hit our system. The reason is different adblockers work different ways. And also spiders are flagged in the same group as well. But my silence, was because I went to sleep.

@MapleDots - I was on a website the other day and their login box wasn't showing up, I couldn't figure out why. It was because I was using one of my browsers that had an adblocker turned on. This website had named their login box something with "ads", because they knew that if you had an ad blocker turned on you wouldn't see it. I thought it was pretty funny, that the only way you could login to your account is if you turned off your ad blocker.

Donny

ok.. but that's not the impression I got from your 1 year old post herE:

 

[MapleDots]

@MapleDots - I was on a website the other day and their login box wasn't showing up, I couldn't figure out why. It was because I was using one of my browsers that had an adblocker turned on. This website had named their login box something with "ads", because they knew that if you had an ad blocker turned on you wouldn't see it. I thought it was pretty funny, that the only way you could login to your account is if you turned off your ad blocker.

Definitely smart but I would just whitelist the element and be past that in two shakes.
Once reported the adblockers will quickly adapt to that.

Back and fourth, cat and mouse but the average person won't see it because the adblockers update automatically.

I hope google does this right, at some point we need a peace treaty between advertisers and consumers.

 

[NoBS]

I hope google does this right, at some point we need a peace treaty between advertisers and consumers.

This won't be possible. If I'm anything to go by, ad supported content won't be a viable business model. Nothing will be resolved until users can fund content with anonymous payments.

 

[NoBS]

It is an interesting idea, a new browser ("BRAVE", brave dot com) tries to implement this

Sounds promising. Those BAT/ether tokens need to be on throw-away wallets, and available everywhere in physical form like itunes cards, but not require registration. If those three conditions are not met, BAT is 100% failed. Something like a prepaid cc or gift card with pin and account number, and the interface for managing wallets might be built into the browser. When a website requests payment the browser can prompt the user to authorise the charge.

 

[MapleDots]

Just thought I would let you know that uBlock blocks 100% of everything on an epik page.

Nothing but the address in the address bar is visible on a market page

 

[toughdomains]

lots of crypto companies trying to solve ad blocking by paying micropayments to read the content....times are a changing...

 

[pablohc86]

lots of crypto companies trying to solve ad blocking by paying micropayments to read the content....times are a changing...

could you please explain more about that.. thanks