AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
As someone whoms business largely relies on ad-revenue: please don't go out of your way to ruin advertising. It's a shitty system that is sometimes abused, but it's the best system we have as very few users actually want to open their wallet for their "free" content. Seriously, we have a single unobtrusive banner yet 85% of our users are adblocking; it's not an issue of 'bad ads' as so many like to argue.EDIT: So the general consensus seems to be that one should not mention adblocking hurting small companies because these small companies should just: a) Invent their own advertising platform that can separate users from bots without any tracking or off-site processing, b) Invent a new payment method that appeals to everyone in the world, c) Make the content so exceptionally good that the users will literally throw money at their monitor, d) Look for investors that can shoulder the costs rather than the users, e) Just create additional sources of revenue so that adblocking users can still get their free content.
This may be a controversial opinion, but I'd rather people just said "I don't want to pay" rather than making up impossible criteria for why they shouldn't pay.EDIT2: So there's a lot of replies basically saying: "just make content worth paying for". I do wonder, do you people stand around street-musicians for 45min and when they nudge their hat just say "fuck you, your content is not good enough to pay for; now shut up and continue playing"?