Business Blocking AdBlock

[AdultKing]

Good or Bad Idea ?

Discuss.

[Ferus]

Block it, and you will say goodbye to your customers. Just rethink how you present ads, and use redirects instead of aff. Links.

[Barry-xlovecam]

You adblock visitors will not be monetized with ads. That said, what is their worth for SEO? Low bounce rates? More (deeper level) page views?

What I am saying is there a ''bright side'' scenario possible or are adblock users just wasted bandwidth costs to you?

Can you curl or wget the ad content and display the ads with relative URIs that would be on your server. Is the bandwidth cost less than the returns?

I think 80%+ of the adblock users will just leave if you don't allow them to see the content -- we might buy that traffic if you could redirect it somehow -- our camsite has no revenue producing ads.

[freecartoonporn]

bad idea.
dont fuck with surfer.
surfer == traffic
traffic == money

even if they are not directly making you money, but people share links/contents, as above stated, their time on site improves bounce rate.

find new techniques to show them less intrusive ads , but dont block them .

allow them to pay small fee or signup option where no ads will be shown.

2 cents.

[AdultKing]

Now everyone has chimed in, I found that this was a good read.

For news publishers the world is constantly ending – not only in over-caffeinated headlines but behind the scenes too. It’s always been so, from Gutenberg to Wapping riots to the internet and the painful conversion from print to digital.

The latest Imminent Apocalypse is the dramatic rise in the use of adblockers – particularly new innovations in adblocking in the coveted mobile space, even at the network level.

Some news publishers have formed a small vanguard with what many business-folks might consider the ‘obvious’ response: to ban or attempt to ban users who consume their content without seeing their ads. In October of last year German publisher Axel Springer banned adblocking users from the popular Bild news website; in December Forbes put in mechanisms to impede content access to adblocking users; in February of this year Wired instituted adblock ban techniques; and in October of 2015 the City AM financial news website likewise ‘scrambled’ content for adblockers.

https://thestack.com/world/2016/04/2...-be-suffering/

[freecartoonporn]

Now everyone has chimed in, I found that this was a good read.




https://thestack.com/world/2016/04/2...-be-suffering/

what were they expecting ?

I too am a geek, however I know when a contract can be enforced and cannot be enforced. In reference to ad-blockers, the end user has the determining right if they want ads or not, it is their system.

this.