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Believe it or not Wibiki.com puts a program that blocks ads from Google Adsense.
I this going to be a permanent thing?
Will is hurt us who have Google ads on our sites?
I loaded it on my computer and sure enough it works.
It's also blocking Valueweb ads on my sites!
Crap!
What are we to do?
RickHisself
I didn't go to the site, but I did Google it and found their press release (hopefully this link is allowed):
[biz.yahoo.com...]
I found this paragraph interesting:
"We have discovered new space for users to work with on the Internet. We look forward to working with the advertising community to help reduce "adblindness" which hampers the value proposition for today's online advertisers. At Wibiki, we believe in a simple motto ... the users rule," stated Shant Hovnanian of Wibiki.
So, it looks to me like they are trying to steal ad space from publishers and use it for their own benefit (apparently serving their own ads disguised as widgets).
Am I reading that right? If so, that's just wrong and I can't see publishers or ad networks standing still and allowing that to happen.
So, it looks to me like they are trying to steal ad space from publishers and use it for their own benefit (apparently serving their own ads disguised as widgets).Am I reading that right? If so, that's just wrong and I can't see publishers or ad networks standing still and allowing that to happen.
Actually I see it the same way that you do, but right now the ad networks do seem to be standing still and allowing it to happen.
By taking over ad space, Wibiki and the others are basically pirates who are stealing revenue. It's kind of a gray area to block ads and replace them with nothing. But to replace the ad space with their own content is blatant theft.
Some might argue that the content isn't actual advertising material. But the content itself adds to Wibiki's value as a company. I for one would love to have my content inserted into millions of web pages, even if my content doesn't contain ads, because it would increase my position on the internet.
How to get around it? I'm not sure if it's possible. The technique resembles that of DNS poisoning, at least in terms of its effects.
In technical terms, they offer to replace the user's ISP's DNS servers with their own
So is it possible to bock users from these DNS servers? If a company like Google did that, that would cripple their service big time. Or if enough webmasters did it, it would be the death of a thousand cuts.
Ad networks are going to have to adapt or die. I think once it becomes serious enough they will let more publishers serve ads from their own servers.
No.
> Ad networks are going to have to adapt or die.
Yes.
