Shouldn’t you disclaim your own biases that you are “currently working on a B2B marketing company”?
I have no business interest in not wanting ads.
I have no business interest in not wanting ads.
But what does business interest have to do with discussing advertising as a concept vs implementation? We can discuss highly technical topics with nuance but when it comes to ads, why is there such a visceral and emotional reaction?
1. https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/16/ad-blocking-a-primer/
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038820
3. https://instinctive.io/blog/instinctive-is-a-founding-member...
Options include continuously changing domain names and server-side ad rendering.
People clearly have expressed their intent not to want ads, yet you want to have systems to force it on them. If people have signaled that they don’t want to ads, do you really think it is your target market. Who exactly is it serving?
Ads, especially on mobile with limited real estate, slide shows, etc makes web pages unreadable. I specifically don’t use the Facebook app or any other app that doesn’t use the SafariViewController (which supports content blockers) to display external links.
Btw, no I didn’t search for your name on the internet. I just went to your HN profile. I thought anyone who so vehemently defended the adtech business must have a business interest in it.
Most content producers want nothing more than to diversify from a dependency on ads so I knew it didn’t come from anyone on the content side.
As far users: It's not about wanting ads, it's about wanting content. The cost is paid for by ads. People make that choice willingly, and that choice is rarely relevant to any product's target customer profile, but the process is serving both users and advertisers by facilitating the trade in attention vs content. Sure content producers want direct payments, and the rise of patreon and subscriptions shows success, but the scale and reach of that is inherently limited. Very few people can afford to pay for all the varied content from so many different sources that they consume daily. That's the fundamental problem.
Bundling is just a stage in the cycle of payments that every medium goes through every few years and doesn't change the fact that most content still is, and always has been, paid for by advertising.