adblockers are more trouble than they are worth. too many sites I visit have that "hey, a**hole disable your adblocker" message.
we need an adblocker blocker lol
For real. I'm at a point with it now where if you do more than ask me nicely, I'm not gonna disable it for you, because I'm not invested enough in your content that it's worth my time to see if you're honest or not. I'm probably just gonna click away. For sites who's content I care about, happy to add the exception. Some random jaggoff's bullshit article that I don't even really care much about? No way. At that point, the exchange reads to me like "I deserve money for wasting your time and foisting onto you a bunch of things you don't want, just to SEE if I MIGHT have something you want. You need to just work for my money or all of this will disappear." Which ironically was the whole reason adblockers took off in the first place. It's like... "Okay, let it." I know for me, that's the whole deal. I'm tired of dealing with them everywhere I go, for things I don't want, to support things I ultimately got nothing of value from.
It's like, good luck man. If it's important information to me, I'll find another source for it. That's how important information works... it doesn't stay confined in one place. I dunno, maybe other people operate differently, but for me, they are sadly mistaken if they think I need their content that badly. All of the strong-armed begging that's surfaced in response to the advent of adblockers has kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't want to sound entitled, but there are ways of going about this stuff... trying to make people feel bad while also attempting to remove the choice from them that they *just* took for themselves probably isn't making anyone look better. It only shows how little they understand about the problem that's led us to this point. Most people will tolerate some ads. The reason we all stopped tolerating it because it went beyond too far. And the proof is in the answer given by a lot of these anti-adblocker measures. You're basically telling me you are exactly who I thought you were when I enabled the damned thing. It makes me think I can't trust that there isn't gonna be a wall of ads behind that grayed-out screen. I've already seen my first pop-up at that point. Which really, how is it any different? A box pops up, you do what it says, and you see ads. How is that functionally different from a regular pop-up?
My usual procedure is simple. If it's a 'soft' request, I won't immediately unblock. And if I see that the majority of your content is only out to capitalize on my attention, it stays that way. But if what I see has some value to me beyond information junk food and what I see there is enough to suggest that maybe that ad money is going towards something that ought to exist (and it doesn't have to be monumental,) I add the exception. It's easy to do that, but I'm not going to consider it if the respect isn't there. Try to force me to respect you, and you've already lost it. No sympathy for that crap. Only shows how little they care about the people who make them their money.
Which reminds me, I didn't even know there was a problem, as I allow ads for TPU.
I put TPU on the whitelist and voila, no more problems. Not sure why exactly I didn't have it on the whitelist to begin with...