IAB Chief Blasts Adblock Plus as an 'Immoral, Mendacious Coven of Techie Wannabes' - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Levelog;49607809]Which proves the failings of the program because per the criteria. [t]http://i.imgur.com/LuWocxR.png[/t] As I said I like the acceptable ads idea, but this ABP's implementation is greatly flawed.[/QUOTE] Looks like that ad example meets the criteria listed. Unobtrusive, at the very bottom of the page, clearly marked with the word sponsor and a divider that says it's not from the same site or content. Should advertisement rules be expanded to the actual service being advertised? Should news or clickbait sites be banned, and what would that criteria look like? Should BuzzFeed be disallowed from advertising, period? [editline]25th January 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=sgman91;49607836]I don't really feel any moral qualms about using adblockers. These companies have chosen to put their content up for free, hoping that people look at the adds while they're there. I signed no contract to view the adds, I didn't agree to view the adds, etc. I have no responsibility to view the adds. It's purely my choice if I want to view the adds or not. In the same way I wouldn't be in the wrong to pay someone (or having someone for free) cut out the adds in a newspaper before I viewed it it isn't wrong to block adds on websites. Take a site like Forbes that has recently blocked anyone with an adblocker from going to their site. I don't have a problem with that either, but they have to know that I probably won't go to their site anymore.[/QUOTE] The funny thing about Forbes asking people not to block ads on their site, they immediately gave users a virus through a malicious ad.

there's a reason why i use both adblock plus and ublock

[quote]"We had never invited them in the first place," he said in his keynote. "They registered for this event online. When we found out, we canceled the registration and reversed their credit card billing."[/quote] So they never invited them, but they have open registration online, which is an implicit invitation to anyone.

Ad blockers started taking off when YouTube created the 15 second - 1 minute ad that you had to sit through before you got to watch your video.

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;49608809]Ad blockers started taking off when YouTube created the 15 second - 1 minute ad that you had to sit through before you got to watch your video.[/QUOTE] Hopefully they don't start injecting the ad video straight into the video stream, as that would actually be totally unblockable. I think they know they'd lose viewership and thus money by doing so however.

they literally offered to give to the IAB tips on how to serve good ads that people will actually like and use, and they treat them like this? What a joke. Your loss of money isn't adblock+s concern.

[QUOTE=Kuro.;49608865]Hopefully they don't start injecting the ad video straight into the video stream, as that would actually be totally unblockable. I think they know they'd lose viewership and thus money by doing so however.[/QUOTE] They can't really do that. Ads are different per region and Google isn't about to go and transcode >100x times more video for that. Even if they don't lose viewership, the extra storage and processing would make it a loss.

[quote]unethical, immoral, mendacious[/quote] The same could be applied to the providers who allow ads that have malware and other shady shit inserted into them.

I feel bad whenever someone I like loses a bit of money because I use Adblock Plus but I'd feel worse if my internet got infected by malware, so fuck it.

"PLEASE TURN OFF ADBLOCK IN ORDER TO VIEW THE NEXT PAGE" -Download website that very prominently host malware and has ten-to-twenty "DOWNLOAD" button advertisements. Thank god for poor html coding, allowing me to inspect the page and find the button that would have been visible.

[QUOTE=Levelog;49606530]I really like the acceptable ads program idea personally. It shows ad providers that there is middleground.[/QUOTE] I've never visited an ad in my life unless by mistake. I don't want to see them at all. Uninstalled Adblock once thy added the program and went with uBlock instead

It's almost like the industry needs to adopt some sort of writing standard for ads like MLA for citations But that wont happen because everybody makes money bloating the web down Seriously the internet is getting bloated, I miss news sites that don't have 100 fucking images and embedded videos and html scripts and java scripts and for some reason flash scripts all running at the same time Like I go to websites that run articles about how flash is bad...and their own site asks me to enable flash

I'd like properly catered ads about [u]REAL[/u] products (not DOWNLOAD THIS MALWARE!!!) so I can learn about new things. IAB you missed a major chance to get ads actually seen by the major populous.

"subverting freedom of the press" uuh

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;49607730]I threw a DNS server on my Raspberry Pi with an adblocking IP-table. No ads exist on my network now, its great![/QUOTE] Best of all, sites can't bitch at you for blocking their ads! I've got 284180 hosts blocked from over a dozen sources and counting.

Fuck him, i'd rather have Adblock on instead of having to see a bunch of ads pop up on whatever websites i go to.