How much Adblock Plus charges for whitelisting a website

koeksGHT said:
Would you pay a subscription fee? Cool, no one likes ads but once the revenue dries up how are content creators etc suppose to earn a living?
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I'd pay a subscription of it's reasonable for the content I want, only if I cannot find it anywhere else, and if there is NO ads. I will NOT pay for content with even a single ad.
 
Fusk abp. It's a rogue program that cheats content creators of their revenue. Everyone who uses it is essentially stealing. Stuff your "ads are annoying". You know what else is annoying? People using your content with not paying for it.
 
Slootvreter said:
Whatever. There are a lot of people who are fine with ads, and they can gladly watch and click on ads all they want. I'm not one of them.
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Agreed.

Back when the Internet was still good, meaning it wasn't 99% food pictures, vegan yoga blogs and 2 paragraph "articles", there were no ads (or very few) and yet somehow the best websites still survived fine. No subscription fees either. Funny how the Ad Activists think everything was always as it is now.

This "ad" cancer has allowed more and more crap to pollute the internet and make punk kids billionaires just by catering to people's vanity instead of doing anything useful.

#AdsMustFall
 
TJ99 said:
Agreed.

Back when the Internet was still good, meaning it wasn't 99% food pictures, vegan yoga blogs and 2 paragraph "articles", there were no ads (or very few) and yet somehow the best websites still survived fine. No subscription fees either. Funny how the Ad Activists think everything was always as it is now.

This "ad" cancer has allowed more and more crap to pollute the internet and make punk kids billionaires just by catering to people's vanity instead of doing anything useful.

#AdsMustFall
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Its now beyond, 'ads'/'no ads'/'should this be allowed'/'ad activists tears'.
A 'company' now exists that has the ability to cut off another companies revenue until they pay them x percent of it. Thats now their business model. Block a companies revenue until that company pays us.
 
ellyally said:
Its now beyond, 'ads'/'no ads'/'should this be allowed'/'ad activists tears'.
A 'company' now exists that has the ability to cut off another companies revenue until they pay them x percent of it. Thats now their business model. Block a companies revenue until that company pays us.
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Yes maybe it's not the most ethical business model out there. But then again how ethical is forcing unwanted crap down people's throats in the first place? It's no better than those annoying spam SMSes you used to get advertising loans, cellphones etc. Those were made illegal. Junk email gets blocked automatically by Hotmail, Gmail and most companies' mail servers. So how come suddenly when it's on a website it's a legitimate business model and totally fine?
 
TJ99 said:
Yes maybe it's not the most ethical business model out there. But then again how ethical is forcing unwanted crap down people's throats in the first place? It's no better than those annoying spam SMSes you used to get advertising loans, cellphones etc. Those were made illegal. Junk email gets blocked automatically by Hotmail, Gmail and most companies' mail servers. So how come suddenly when it's on a website it's a legitimate business model and totally fine?
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Can't really compare to spam mail and sms'. I get what you're saying though(you don't go to a site to get spammed:)), but you choose to go to the website. You are visiting the website, the website isn't suddenly popping up on your pc, arriving in your mail box etc.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the intrusive ad crap needs to stop. This only exists because of the over the top spam ads on various sites. But, there is a serious problem with the direction these guys have taken.
 
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