Why so much ads on a personal website? Half the content of the page is dedicated to them, it's very annoying: https://imgur.com/a/DBuXPCp
Not to mention the fact that I am not the person responsible for giving advertisers access to someone's website. If anything I'm going easy on the content creator by holding the fact that they do so against them.
Abuse[0]: Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit.
You go somewhere that use ads to finance the content, while making effort to block theses ads/thus the financing. It's certainly the improper usage of his website, to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. The benefit being access to the content.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse
> Meanwhile the negative sides of advertising and ad tech are well-documented.
Then why not avoiding anything using ad tech? The negative sides of smoke from cigarette are well known, I'm still not there trying to keep smoking while trying to avoid the smoke.
Personally I have no issue with most ads. The only time I ever had an issue with them was over Engadget were I got 2 auto playing ads over the course of a few days, I just stopped going there. What are the negative side that you lived? That was the only one that I lived, a slight inconvenience, while everyday I get hundred of positive side. There so many content creator that I care deeply about that were able to live out of their content, that would never been able to otherwise.
> Not to mention the fact that I am not the person responsible for giving advertisers access to someone's website.
You are responsible for accessing it...
> If anything I'm going easy on the content creator
You are going easy on him? By accessing his content without respecting the terms he set on accessing it. That doesn't sound like anything generous.
You act like you deserve the access to the content and now you even act like you reading it is some sort of reward for the content creator. That entitlement is seriously wrong.
Can't blame him.
Was anyone successful? Are they served from more than one place?
edit: and that I can live with.
Remember that the people who use adblock talk about it a lot, and those who don't use it don't talk about it.
The reason is that ad blocking is killing the media, which is necessary for a functioning democracy. The magnitude of suffering a collective return to autocracy would cause is so disproportional to being slightly annoyed by ads, it doesn’t even matter if your faith in the importance of a free press is just a fraction of mine.
It’s usually not well received on HN, because journalists are generally held in lower regard than war criminals or chocolate thieves.
Alternatively, the article itself seems to load fine without any JS enabled.
Crazy that I saw some no-name site like this getting around my adblockers before I've seen any major site do it so nimbly. Congrats, I guess.
I'm not aware of any adblocker that disables blocking a few seconds after page load.
>Crazy that I saw some no-name site like this getting around my adblockers before I've seen any major site do it so nimbly. Congrats, I guess.
Not really surprising at all. Adblockers operate on blacklists, and if your site is small enough you might be able to fly under the radar and not get added to those lists.