Re: [projectvrm] Paying Adblock to not block

[Don Marti < >]

begin Dan Miller quotation of Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:49:37AM -0800:
> 
> http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/2/7963577/google-ads-get-through-adblock
> 
> Forgive me if someone already posted this article. It's precious.

Unfortunately, "acceptable ads" is an out-of-date
concept for many current web designs.

  For pages featuring a reading text ads should not be
  placed in the middle, where they interrupt the
  reading flow. However, they can be placed above the
  text content, below it or on the sides. 

  https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

So a nice-looking design like Quartz does not have
"acceptable" ads because ads can appear when scrolling
a long article, but a crap-ass legacy WCMS that splits
a shorter article into 9 pages is A-OK.

As far as I can tell, targeted third-party ads can
buy into the "acceptable" program too, which does
nothing for improving the value of the medium.
(Please correct me if I'm wrong here.)

At this point it's probably better for users to
skip Adblock Plus and go straight to Disconnect or
Privacy Badger.

  https://www.eff.org/privacybadger#how_is_it_different


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Don Marti                    
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