<story><title>Adblock Plus now sells ads</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-sells-ads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwise0</author><text>Well, the royal &amp;quot;we&amp;quot;, perhaps :-)&lt;p&gt;I started blocking ads because they dramatically slowed down my browsing experience. But I keep blocking ads because, fundamentally, I believe that advertisements are neurotoxins, and nobody has the right to poison me.&lt;p&gt;The old Sean Tejaratchi quote - popularized by Banksy - applies here, I think - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.readingfrenzy.com&amp;#x2F;ledger&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;taking_the_piss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.readingfrenzy.com&amp;#x2F;ledger&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;taking_the_piss&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>etatoby</author><text>I, for one, agree with them.&lt;p&gt;We started blocking ads because they had become 1. obnoxious, interfering with the fruition of the actual content; 2. dangerous, being a vector for malware and disrespecting our privacy; and 3. costly, for those with a slow or metered connection.&lt;p&gt;Most people accept ads, if they are acceptable.&lt;p&gt;They are the first company to actually push through with a plan to restore this market to sanity, so it&amp;#x27;s only natural they would take a small profit from it. Other well-known technology companies grab well into the two digit percent off other people&amp;#x27;s earnings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bargl</author><text>I just want to go out there and say, they don&amp;#x27;t have the right to poison you, but you don&amp;#x27;t have the right to their content...&lt;p&gt;I fall in this weird spot with ads.  I don&amp;#x27;t like them, they slow down the experience, they can have PORN on them (this happened to my brother the other day), they have little oversight and track you.  Many things I do not approve of.&lt;p&gt;What I DO approve of is paying content creators.  And unless you are paying to remove ads through google or something else then you aren&amp;#x27;t paying the content creators and this is how we get paywalls.  Which I personally don&amp;#x27;t like and even worse, plagiarized articles from pay-walled articles so that we can see them on sites where we can just block ads.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying I think ad blockers are bad.  I just think we shouldn&amp;#x27;t feel that we have a right to content without ads if they are done properly.  I.E. Not tracking, no malware in ads, etc. etc.  If we get ads that server all 3 parties (consumer, ad companies, and content creators) so that consumers don&amp;#x27;t have to pay then I think we should be ready to get back on board.</text></comment>
<story><title>Adblock Plus now sells ads</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-sells-ads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwise0</author><text>Well, the royal &amp;quot;we&amp;quot;, perhaps :-)&lt;p&gt;I started blocking ads because they dramatically slowed down my browsing experience. But I keep blocking ads because, fundamentally, I believe that advertisements are neurotoxins, and nobody has the right to poison me.&lt;p&gt;The old Sean Tejaratchi quote - popularized by Banksy - applies here, I think - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.readingfrenzy.com&amp;#x2F;ledger&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;taking_the_piss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.readingfrenzy.com&amp;#x2F;ledger&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;taking_the_piss&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>etatoby</author><text>I, for one, agree with them.&lt;p&gt;We started blocking ads because they had become 1. obnoxious, interfering with the fruition of the actual content; 2. dangerous, being a vector for malware and disrespecting our privacy; and 3. costly, for those with a slow or metered connection.&lt;p&gt;Most people accept ads, if they are acceptable.&lt;p&gt;They are the first company to actually push through with a plan to restore this market to sanity, so it&amp;#x27;s only natural they would take a small profit from it. Other well-known technology companies grab well into the two digit percent off other people&amp;#x27;s earnings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>That fits my definition of acceptable. I, we, aren&amp;#x27;t blind to people&amp;#x27;s need to make money for the time and effort. But we don&amp;#x27;t want 50% clickbait video poppin up randomly. Same for battery life, etc etc. No JS.&lt;p&gt;With some fixed not too screamy image smartly positionned, I&amp;#x27;d never block ads.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t get the logic behind these ads. They really think that shouting red stuff at my face will make me spend time and money ? If someone is looking for something he&amp;#x27;ll react to subtler cues. If the ad is really relevant (not just word match) to the content, it&amp;#x27;s even better. But that&amp;#x27;s a rare oddity.</text></comment>