Ad Blockers Should Be Illegal

Ad blockers deprive sites of needed income

[azlinda]

I'm very surprised that someone somewhere has not begun a class action suit against all those who provide ad blockers. Whatever happened to personal responsibility, both on webmasters' and the users' sides? When someone uses an ad blocker, they are, in reality, defacing (changing) someone's website and depriving them of potential income needed to continue to operate the site. Seeing ads is a small price to pay if the users are getting the information they want. It seems so simple to me that if you don't like seeing ads on someone's site, you have the right to leave. No one is holding you hostage. I have never used an ad blocker, and there are some sites (news sites) that I have left because the ads are overwhelming. There are those who will argue that people who use ad blockers never click on ads anyway. I feel that is not true, because somewhere along the line there will be that one ad that a person will not be able to resist.

[Broaster]

Dimitri
I noticed the big publishers like new york times some of them say you have ad block please remove or something before you can entire the website to read the article

But then someone on google said those are illegal but I guess they work for the million dollar companies they just wont let smaller websites use them

Google confuses me, its weird I never thought it would get to this, back in the early days it was so simple to make a living blogging off adsense now they came up with penalties, ad restrictions, now ad blockers are out

all you can do is reminisce about the old days, those who made good money hopefully the invested it wisely because its super difficult to make adsense money in 2018 unless you got massive traffic and premium ads going.

[Dimitri]

You can't compare a site like the NY Times, to our sites :)

now they came up with penalties, ad restrictions, now ad blockers are out

That is because a given number of web masters abused, and still do. So it penalizes everybody (at different level)

[tangor]

You guys do know that adsense, from the get go, was bait and switch, right? TANSTAAFL, but if you offer it that way THEY WILL COME and an early few did reap the rewards until all were HOOKED on the "opium-like" dream of getting rich with cut-and-paste income.

I could use terms like "ponzi" etc, but will not. Smoke and mirrors early on to get folks used to doing "something". Make it look easy. The only ones who got rich were the middle-persons (that's pc speak these days) and that would be g.

Advertisers paid too much, Publishers got paid too little. Wheels were greased just enough to provide the illusion of a "money machine for the masses" UNTIL the screws were turned (all that barnyard stuff) because a core base of welfare needy websites were in place to keep the gears turning.

It is all about scale ... and a billion websites turning a penny a day is serious cash for who controls that penny!

[Broaster]

Dimitri

yeah a few bad apples spoiled it for us, I miss 2009 when I would just post up an article and it would get traffic easily no back link hunting, and Id earn money, but these spammers who were making websites just to get clicks and adsense clicks hurt everyone now they came up with algorithm penalties and made it difficult by removing contextual ads, so everyone honest suffers because of them.

tangor

what I notice it says google gives you 68 percent of each ad click is this correct? youtubers seem to be the only ones making money they dont even have to pay for a server since youtube hosts all their videos, a lot of click bait youtube videos get ranked easy in youtube and if your video is ten minutes you can put more than 5 ads in the video

I saw someone post on reddit that he made 7 thousand dollars total from youtube a month and was complaining that his earnings were down from 10 thousand dollars last month, thats amazing

its really good because if he were to get that type of traffic on a website blog he would need to pay a host server over 300 dollars a month, with youtube he pays nothing so he doesn't have any overhead.

[Leosghost]

Broaster..re youtube ( and other social media )..you might be interested in this..if you have not seen it..
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If you have thoughts on it..post in that thread rather than this one...my opening post there was already cut from another thread ..