Then that’s their problem. Cream rises and all that … Im a net marketer ( SEM/SEO … etc.) Only been researching the subject a few hours and seeing plenty of potential solutions … even ways to use it to my advantage.

Agree with you in the quality of content thing too. Content is king etc. If someone is creative enough and knowledgeable in a subject(s) to get recognized for their work. Then they have a real value regardless. They likely could integrate and adblocker blocker script into their site and people would add them to their exceptions list to allow ads for their site.

Those people imo … are also likely to be the types easily able to come up with alternative ways to monetize their sites. Intelligent, creative people … tend to be sensible and common sense applies to everything. A person rich in common sense, is truly rich. Lol … don’t know why they call it common though … Considering how rare a quality it seems to be.

The adblockers killing websites thing. I actually approve of it. Seems to me a good percentage of the internet is web pollution and trash sites anyway. Low quality, irrelevant or regurgitated trash. I have to spend 20hrs digging through 3mil trash sites to find a good source of info on a topic.

So won’t hurt my feelings if 85% of the sites on the net crash and burn. Leaving the quality sites to rise above all the nonsense background noise and internet static in their niche’s. Bringing netizens to quality content … Win/win … win for the netizen … Win for the site owner that actually has something to offer of interest/value.

Random: Plus I like that it’s hitting the netgods … google/facebook/binghooo in the breadbaskets. Never was a big fan of big corps like those. They all got the you can’t live without us. Were sooo important we can treat people however we like syndrome. If it hurts their bottomline … again, I can’t help but approve.

There is an implicit assumption that advertising in its current format will continue as it has always done. In other words an industrial-age concept of billboards can be successfully grafted onto the information superhighway.

This is working at the moment only because an information age alternative has not yet emerged where vendors can meet with consumers in a more efficient, less intrusive and more cost-effective environment.

Information age advertising mediums are inevitable and are starting to appear right now. One example is the Customer Satisfaction Monitor which has recently been launched.

This Customer Satisfaction Monitor (http://www.customersatisfactionmonitor.com) answers the three most important pre-purchase questions and introduces a new step into the sales process. Advertisers can now target prospects at a very crucial point in the sales process much more cost-effectively and less intrusively because the consumer is in control.

As an advertiser it will be increasingly uneconomical to advertise elsewhere because potential customers will be ambushed by competitors at services like the Customer Satisfaction Monitor. Industrial-age advertising will, as a result, wither on the vine.

For those services relying on advertising it is time to rethink your revenue model.

The one point I am a bit sympathetic towards though is that I understand their business model was built around the idea of showing users ads – and if the users are blocking ads, that’s going to cause problems with the model. And clearly, that means you have to adjust your business model, although I don’t have a problem with perhaps making a plea to the users to please disable adblock on a particular site

There’s a WordPress plugin by Thaya Kareeson that somehow checks for Adblock and disables site viewing if adblock is enabled. I don’t recall how it works, but I tested it and it does. I ended up not using it because I would rather have people come to my site and perhaps spread the word, or perhaps buy something from me down the road – as opposed to being blocked and just leave

If adblockers need to be blocked, we also need to ditch feeds again because they still generate a loss in both page views and thus revenue.

What is needed is compromise like adblocker apps to stop, by default, blocking non-intrusive ads like AdSense ads.

But I do understand both views and sympathise with people/content creators who look at the issue from the ‘other side’. It’s a difficult and delicate topic.