Ask HN: Standard response to anti-adblock messages?
>Please consider creating an account or whitelisting our site on AdBlock so that we can continue to remain free for all users.
I'd like to submit a comment to the site's contact form, something along the lines of "Please consider ensuring that you're only hosting non-malicious ads, so I can continue to link to your site in good faith. My adblocker only blocks potentially-malicious ads that use unnecessary javascript and 3rd-party connections, so if you switch to clean, safe, javascript-free, 1st-party ads, then your ads would not be blocked and we'd all be better off. It would be a triple-win, for you, me, and the people I'm sending to your site (quadruple if you count the non-shady advertisers)!"
Is there some sort of standard, polite, respectable response that we can all use -- something that would not be insulting to publishers and that they could clearly understand and act upon? I feel like someone must have come up with such a response by now, but I haven't seen it. Ideally it would have pointers to ways that publishers can do clean advertising.
Twelve years ago, I probably could've come up with that myself, but now I have no idea where to find safe advertising. I respect the publishers and understand the need for ad-based financing, and that they're doing the only thing they know of to do, but I don't want to point my readers to a malware vector. I want us all to have a better experience. I just don't know how to word it or where to point for a solution.