Adblockers killing websites

Also if a user is adding CSS, it’s likely out of necessity, whether that’s bigger font sizes, more contrast for colors, etc. I think that any reasonable site owner would be fine with this.

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In some browsers the differences are not so minute.

That was the original argument; browsers don’t come with custom CSS installed that would break or change websites a lot.

But people can choose a browser based on features already built in or that make it easier to add features (such as custom CSS).

They do come with default CSS eg. browser chrome and style for “replaceable” elements" eg. form inputs.

True, that shouldn’t cause any major problem except maybe to the site designer that would be upset if a user didn’t have a certain font available, a user had the “wrong” zoom level or view-port width etc.

But a page that isn’t pixel perfect wouldn’t be considered broken.

I wonder how Google would take it if a browser took to replacing their paid adverts on SERPs.

Really? Why? Because the browser will protect you from being tracked? Because it’ll serve only safe and fast ads?
I’ve been reading, and it sounds like a browser I might use. All I’m saying is that the fact that they put their ads in the content of a web page, thus making money using the content of others without permission, doesn’t sound very legal at all to me.

And I don’t know about you, but somehow it seems to me there is a flaw in the logic? I’ve not searched very much yet, so maybe I just didn’t find it so far, but if I want Brave to add ads to my site and have them pay me my share, do I really have to subscribe to adsense first and put ads on my site? Wouldn’t it be easier if I just filled in some form to give them permission to insert ads into my site’s content?
Yes I know, we’re getting a bit off topic here.

they are placing the ads there WITH THE PERMISSION of the person using the browser.

If any part of the process is illegal it is the REMOVAL of the ads put there by the page owner just as with any other ad blocker.

If you’re right, then I guess the browsers will soon all adapt this model, and they’ll put ads on every page you visit, and nobody will use the actual “on site” ad providers anymore.
I mean, is there a better way for MS for example to ruin Google’s and FB’s biggest money maker? And you as a publisher will only have to sign an agreement with the 3-4 biggest browsers out there to get your share.

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Wonder what sort of internal conversations are happening at places like Google about this :laughing:

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Hey everyone, we have an interview with Brendan Eich (CEO of Brave) over on the main site: http://www.sitepoint.com/interview-brendan-eich-ceo-brave/

In the interview, Brendan explains Brave’s business model and addresses a couple of common misconceptions.

Whatever your stance on the debate, it makes interesting reading.

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There are several ways to fight adblock!
People land in your website because your content was share-worthy or good enough to appear on search results for the visitor’s search phrase.

Disabling adblock take two seconds for a user.
I am actually losing 0 dollars because of adblock! Because I have blocked adblock instead of letting the app to block the ads on my websites.

when a users lands on my website have the plugin enabled, they will get a full screen message that either they should disable their adblock to see the content or register/login in the website.

This way I am at least getting their email address for email marketing purposes which is worth of investing such a plugin for your website.

That’s not true. I use adblock plus but I as well click on ads when I am interested.

Welcome to he forums, @seyzed.

This seems to me to be much the same as those sites which show nothing unless you enable JavaScript. I want to see the content of the site first and know it’s relevant and of interest to me before I’ll consider enabling JS or disabling AdBlock. If I can’t see the site to make that judgement, then I will simply leave and not return.

Just to clarify here, are you saying that you use AdBlock Plus yourself when visiting other sites, but you prevent other people using it when they visit yours?

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You seriously believe that? Most people who get your full screen message will bail at that point. Only a small minority will bother to register.

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We had some adds on an external site, that wasen’t supposed to be blocked since it wasen’t commercial per. say. We wrote to addblocker and made them remove it from their list. If anyone else has problems with this, I suggest you use this approach :slight_smile:

Yes, how hippocratic! :smiley:
That’s my source of income. I use adblock for the popup ads that’s popups up everywhere and distracts me.

That’s not how I made 35k clean email list in 3 years!

At least I’m consistent. I use AdBlock Plus to defend myself against flashing/moving images which cause me problems - and I don’t include ads on any of my own sites.

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Accept it for what it is, you can’t rely only on ads for your traffic. :slight_smile:

The sites relying on ads for their income don’t normally use it at all for traffic.

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Facebook blog today:

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I never click the ads on a site. So i’m not bothered about using Adblock. So much better with YouTube.