<story><title>The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com</title><url>http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/the-devastating-effect-of-ad-blockers-for-guru3d-com.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhall1468</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s exactly this kind of attitude that is going to lead to paywalls for virtually every type of content on the Internet. And the people that use the most heavy-handed approaches with ad-blocking are going to be the same people that are screaming &amp;quot;NOT MY PROBLEM&amp;quot; while the ship goes down.&lt;p&gt;Their business model doesn&amp;#x27;t require changes to reality. Their business model requires the end-user to accept reality for what it is: you can&amp;#x27;t get a bunch of free stuff, ad infinitum, while simultaneously blocking the only feasible revenue model for said free stuff.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not up to &amp;quot;reality&amp;quot;, us, to change to support your business model.&lt;p&gt;Did you pat yourself on the back while you said that, or right after?&lt;p&gt;We are not reality. The reality is, ad-blocking will be the absolute death of currency-free content. This abuse of the word reality is truly odd to me.&lt;p&gt;You seem to think every choice we make as consumers is the current reality. What you call reality, I call a house of cards.</text></item><item><author>njharman</author><text>If your business model requires changes to reality, then your business model is probably dead. [If you have lobbying power, you can extend your business model for awhile, perhaps indefinitely ala content industry and copyright.]&lt;p&gt;In other words, adapt your business model to change or die.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not up to &amp;quot;reality&amp;quot;, us, to change to support your business model. If there is demand for whatever you produce, someone will create a &amp;quot;business model&amp;quot; to supply it. If there is not enough demand to pay for any business model then so be it, we didn&amp;#x27;t actually need&amp;#x2F;want your product after all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>Most content is worthless. Content that has actual monetary value to someone, market research data for instance, has no trouble finding people willing to pay for it.&lt;p&gt;The fact is most &amp;quot;news&amp;quot; and other article type sites do not serve a purpose other than satisfying some idle curiosity or passing time. Very little of it has a material impact on anyone&amp;#x27;s day to day life. The purpose can easily be filled by some alternate, free material. When the content can be easily leveraged to some profitable goal, people are usually more than willing to pay for it.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com</title><url>http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/the-devastating-effect-of-ad-blockers-for-guru3d-com.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhall1468</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s exactly this kind of attitude that is going to lead to paywalls for virtually every type of content on the Internet. And the people that use the most heavy-handed approaches with ad-blocking are going to be the same people that are screaming &amp;quot;NOT MY PROBLEM&amp;quot; while the ship goes down.&lt;p&gt;Their business model doesn&amp;#x27;t require changes to reality. Their business model requires the end-user to accept reality for what it is: you can&amp;#x27;t get a bunch of free stuff, ad infinitum, while simultaneously blocking the only feasible revenue model for said free stuff.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not up to &amp;quot;reality&amp;quot;, us, to change to support your business model.&lt;p&gt;Did you pat yourself on the back while you said that, or right after?&lt;p&gt;We are not reality. The reality is, ad-blocking will be the absolute death of currency-free content. This abuse of the word reality is truly odd to me.&lt;p&gt;You seem to think every choice we make as consumers is the current reality. What you call reality, I call a house of cards.</text></item><item><author>njharman</author><text>If your business model requires changes to reality, then your business model is probably dead. [If you have lobbying power, you can extend your business model for awhile, perhaps indefinitely ala content industry and copyright.]&lt;p&gt;In other words, adapt your business model to change or die.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not up to &amp;quot;reality&amp;quot;, us, to change to support your business model. If there is demand for whatever you produce, someone will create a &amp;quot;business model&amp;quot; to supply it. If there is not enough demand to pay for any business model then so be it, we didn&amp;#x27;t actually need&amp;#x2F;want your product after all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbugbag</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s exactly this kind of attitude that is going to lead to paywalls for virtually every type of content on the Internet.&lt;p&gt;Except this won&amp;#x27;t free us from ads, actually the contrary as explained here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zen.lk&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;Why-you-will-never-escape-ads-by-paying-for-content&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zen.lk&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;Why-you-will-never-escape-ads-by-pa...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The reality is, ad-blocking will be the absolute death of currency-free content.&lt;p&gt;The reality is that it&amp;#x27;s not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin&amp;#x2F;376041&amp;#x2F;?single_page=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;advert...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>