Nonsense! What trust? You put up a website, I visit it. If your whole operation is based upon the "trust" that I'm also going to view your ads - you've got another think coming.
Anyway, I see it from the opposite angle. It was websites abusing my trust - that I would be able to view their content without being subjected to inane, distracting ads - that led me to this attitude in the first place. Adblock users were created, not born.
"You're assuming the website you visit is going to be intrusive and horrible to you."
This is an assumption born of long and miserable experience and I stand by its general accuracy. 75% rule!
"You're putting your fingers in your ears and saying "Nothing you ever say to me is going to be useful to me"."
If I knew someone IRL who spoke with the same abysmal signal-to-noise ratio of your average web advertising, that is exactly what I'd do. Or, rather, I'd wear some kind of filter so I couldn't hear them.
You are constantly defending advertising in this forum - I have to wonder, are we using the same internet? 99.9% of the ads I see are awful. Punch the monkey. Win a PS3! Get your horoscope on your mobile! Repair your Windows registry! They are pure annoying noise. How can you possibly blame me for wanting to block them out?
I have nothing against site owners; hell, I'm a site owner myself. If there was a more surgical way to easily block only the annoying ads, I'd adopt that. There is not, to my knowledge, so I block them all. I don't understand why you can't see that this is a perfectly reasonable reaction.
Yes I think you're browsing a completely different internet. I rarely get irritated by adverts and find most of them interesting and useful. If not personally, definitely from a marketing and monetization point of view.
> If I knew someone IRL who spoke with the same abysmal signal-to-noise ratio of your average web advertising, that is exactly what I'd do. Or, rather, I'd wear some kind of filter so I couldn't hear them.
More likely that you would avoid the person all together. Do the same for websites and everyone is happy.
Nonsense! What trust? You put up a website, I visit it. If your whole operation is based upon the "trust" that I'm also going to view your ads - you've got another think coming.
Anyway, I see it from the opposite angle. It was websites abusing my trust - that I would be able to view their content without being subjected to inane, distracting ads - that led me to this attitude in the first place. Adblock users were created, not born.
"You're assuming the website you visit is going to be intrusive and horrible to you."
This is an assumption born of long and miserable experience and I stand by its general accuracy. 75% rule!
"You're putting your fingers in your ears and saying "Nothing you ever say to me is going to be useful to me"."
If I knew someone IRL who spoke with the same abysmal signal-to-noise ratio of your average web advertising, that is exactly what I'd do. Or, rather, I'd wear some kind of filter so I couldn't hear them.
You are constantly defending advertising in this forum - I have to wonder, are we using the same internet? 99.9% of the ads I see are awful. Punch the monkey. Win a PS3! Get your horoscope on your mobile! Repair your Windows registry! They are pure annoying noise. How can you possibly blame me for wanting to block them out?
I have nothing against site owners; hell, I'm a site owner myself. If there was a more surgical way to easily block only the annoying ads, I'd adopt that. There is not, to my knowledge, so I block them all. I don't understand why you can't see that this is a perfectly reasonable reaction.