Wladimir's conclusions may be flawed. A small percentage of respondents who use ad-block are against all ads. However, there is no evidence that this is a representative sample of users. We shall see.EnviroChem wrote: As Wladimir found in his survey, only a small percentage of users who use ad-block are against all ads. They are simply trying to get relief from the worst ads. The thing is by the nature of who is willing to take the time to maintain filters, ad blocking tends to be an all or nothing affair.
Third party object requests are unacceptable. This is because sites do not have the ability to govern the ad style or content. Although it would be possible for an independent 4th party to regulate ads (on a voluntary basis), that doesn't happen today.EnviroChem wrote:If the goal is to change the nature of ads on the Internet, 3rd party ads have to be accepted or there will be zero buy in from websites to change behavior to get white listed.Anti-Ad wrote:Third party object requests are unacceptable.EnviroChem wrote: SELF HOSTED ADS WON'T WORK FOR SMALL SITES
I suspect the extent to which Google Ads has become widespread would make this impractical, and I don't know enough technical details to know to what extent this would mitigate the privacy concerns, but I'd certainly be interested in hearing from someone who could offer some more insight into this.
He IS simply providing an addon to users. Blocking ads is Adblock Plus' raison d'etre.EnviroChem wrote: This goes back to what Wladimir's objectives are. If he is simply providing an addon to users, then you are correct. If on the other hand he wants to use ABP as a social engineering tool to clean up the Internet in general by giving websites a reason to use unobtrusive ads, then this option has to be opt-out in order to get the critical mass needed to provide sufficient incentive for advertisers to change. ABP also must have a big enough percentage of all users on the Internet for advertisers to feel the pain of being blocked. If only a few percent of all users are blocking ads, then this option might not have the critical mass to make it worthwhile for websites to use less intrusive ads.
Making the Internet a better place is laudable. But now, instead of providing a tool for blocking ads, we have a tool that does not.