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Originally Posted by BFT3K
Because that's what an asshole would do!  |
What you're advocating is no better..
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Originally Posted by Robbie
It appears to me that the adblock program knocked out any iframe ads on the page.
No, that's not a good thing either.
I'm just saying that popups and popunders and everything like them are not good advertising.
And people using them are what leads to stuff like ad blocker software.
I wouldn't promote ad blocker software, but I'm very sympathetic to what people go through with that crap ruining their experience on a page.
It's a damn shame too. Years ago we used to sell pop up blockers. Then the browsers themselves developed them. Pop ups were so bad on porn sites back then that it would literally keep popping new windows until your computer ran out of resources and had to be rebooted (computers back then only had a few hundred MB's of memory IF you had the expensive ones).
So what did dumbass people do? They came up with MORE annoying ways to circumvent the browser popup blocker.
And now we have ad blocker software. 
As usual, some people are shooting themselves in the foot.
Don't blame BFT3K. He's a frustrated, honest person trying to make a living.
Instead, blame the dumbasses who keep implementing new ways to fuck with surfers and cause things like ad blockers to become necessary. |
I'm with you on the intrusive ads, but adblock programs do more than "knock out a few iframes" it actively looks for keywords people use in their pages to show ads, for instance, you have all your sponsor banners in a folder
example.com/images/banners/claudia-marie.gif
Guess what? Adblock matched that url based on "banners" and blocked it.. They also block any keywords in javascript method names and urls too.. The authors of these programs constantly browse sites with ads on them trying to find the new "tricks" used to circumvent these attempts to get around the blockers and sends out updates with new matching algorithms on them...
They are by far more destructive to our business and industry than Manwin or Pornhub will ever be... So using and promoting adblockers to surfers... You may as well just whitelist any Manwin IP as a safe IP to view all your members area and full content without paying, and let them upload 100% of your content full length on their tubes, because guess what... You ain't gonna make shit when every banner for a pay site on your site is blocked.
And text links? What happens when you circumvent the blockers by using text links? They put in algorithms to match on text links and start blocking based on those too...
Anybody with half a fucking brain will know how bad these types of extensions and plugins are for our industry... And BFT3K being angry and just trying to make a living? Welcome to 100% of the industry, but you don't see them going out and promoting fucking adblockers all over the place.... I could see if he was just frustrated and speaking out of anger yesterday, but I was hoping he came to his senses after cooling down and realized how stupid his idea was and apologized and we went on our way, but clearly you can see he doesn't give a fuck about anybody else and if it doesn't affect his business (which it does) he doesn't care. So fuck him.