Adverts on websites

throwaway4372 said:
I hate advertising. Why should some marketing ******* have the right to manipulate my brain? The lot of them can walk the plank.
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The argument is that is what pays for the content you're watching. Imagine if 100% of ITV viewers blocked ads on ITV, their revenue would dry up and they'd no longer be able to produce or air any programs.
 
Who actually buys things as a result of these sort of ads?

I genuinely cannot recall buying anything via an ad, if I'm after something I'll google for it and look for the best price including cashback from a store I know/feel is reputable.
 
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Mr Jack said:
Google are changing the way that add-ins work in Chrome to try and stop ad-blockers from working so well. We'll see what effect that has.
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Are they? Source? More info? Be interested to read more on that.

Ali195 said:
Using Pi-hole DNS blocker on my NAS, docker as it runs 24/7 anyway.
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Heard of a lot of people running this. I have a server I can run dockers on so might look into this but would I not have to send all traffic in/out of the docker? I'll go and read up. The main thing that winds me up is when me or the kids use built in apps in the TVs like youtube or prime and it plasters and ad in there. If it would get rid of that I'm interested.
 
UTmaniac said:
Who actually buys things as a result of these sort of ads?

I genuinely cannot recall buying anything via an ad, if I'm after somethig I'll google for it and look for the best price including cashback from a store I know/feel is reputable.
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I often have the same thought. I think this is even more pertinent when it comes to supermarkets as well. I mean don't most people just go to the one nearest regularly? Can't think of anything more incovenient than constantly shopping at a multitude of different supermarkets for food.

Advertising seems to be what drives the entire western economy and advertising space is the main "product" that some of the most valuable companies on earth sell, yet I do often think just how effective a lot of it really is.
 
jaybee said:
Are they? Source? More info? Be interested to read more on that.
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Lots about it out there, here's one. The change is "manifest 3.0", which Google claim is there to stop potential abuse but major producers of ad-blocking and privacy protection extensions say will harm their ability to do so. Apparently they've again been delayed from a planned change this month though.
 
Mr Jack said:
Lots about it out there, here's one. The change is "manifest 3.0", which Google claim is there to stop potential abuse but major producers of ad-blocking and privacy protection extensions say will harm their ability to do so. Apparently they've again been delayed from a planned change this month though.
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If people don't want ADS then it should be their right to say no. People are forced targets and are not given a choice.

Either have ads or have a paid for service to remove them. That's a simple option that all services should stick by.
 
So many websites are unusable these days without ad blockers.

This is why some browsers have them built in. I personally use uBlock Origin PLUS Vivaldi's built-in ad blocker, since some stuff still gets through.

Apparently since I installed uBlock on my laptop, it has blocked 870k ads.
 
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Semple said:
The argument is that is what pays for the content you're watching. Imagine if 100% of ITV viewers blocked ads on ITV, their revenue would dry up and they'd no longer be able to produce or air any programs.
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IMO this isn't a problem. They can fund it another way, or just go out of business for all I care.

UTmaniac said:
Who actually buys things as a result of these sort of ads?

I genuinely cannot recall buying anything via an ad, if I'm after something I'll google for it and look for the best price including cashback from a store I know/feel is reputable.
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I had the same thought, as it's how I feel about it too. However, it's the same question as "why do people fall for phishing emails", or any other scam. It's obviously enough people for it to be worth doing. I once phished my colleagues to test security, tech savvy people, and about 15% of them fell for it.
 
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throwaway4372 said:
I hate advertising. Why should some marketing ******* have the right to manipulate my brain? The lot of them can walk the plank.
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If you (in general) are that easily manipulated you've much bigger problems than ads to be frank.

Personally don't care if a site has the odd ad but increasingly it just takes the mick on too many sites if you don't use a blocker making the sites near unusable :( personally I try not to block ads unless I have to but increasingly left with little choice.

UTmaniac said:
Who actually buys things as a result of these sort of ads?

I genuinely cannot recall buying anything via an ad, if I'm after something I'll google for it and look for the best price including cashback from a store I know/feel is reputable.
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I've been made aware of brands or products via ads which I've looked into at a later date as and when I needed something, for many companies it will significantly raise their profile even if they don't directly sell things via ads.

Most ads, especially video ones, are laughably bad though - you have about 3 seconds to get someone's attention and/or plant recognition of your brand in a viewer's mind and most ads waste it, and forced, non-skippable or intrusive ads will turn off far more people than alternative methods would capture.
 
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At least there are blockers for normal sites. FB is a whole next level mess with them continually changes things to make them difficult to block.
 
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