Wired will block content for users who use ad-blockers

Yeah, I can't imagine the internet will die and all websites will close because of adblockers. There's so many free alternatives to any site. Lots of sites just waiting for the traffic to come their way.
@Wired, not even a good try, not even close to mediocre. Please put in some more effort and thought into your work.
 
imranpanji said:
I think you can expand that to other websites too. I don't know how everyone expects things to be free forever.

They bitch if there are adverts, and indiscriminately block adverts no matter how they are displayed. While getting on this BS moral high horse of 'if they displayed their ads better then I wouldn't block them'

And then they bitch when there are paywalls, which is one the results of adblocking. The other result is that the quality of the content suffers.....which is something else that will be bitched about
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Yeah, I'm sympathetic to websites like Wired who really do need advertising to exist. I'm also not particularly comfortable with the 'well I'll just get it elsewhere' approach. Don't like the idea of turning the whole process into a cycle of discarding websites (and resultingly companies, staff etc.) all the time.

It goes without saying that schitty, annoying ads annoy me, too. But I want to support sites that I enjoy visiting.

Stack Overflow's approach (posted earlier by biometrics) seems very sensible. Maybe online publications just need to take more direct control over the ad side of things. Enforce rigorous standards about how they display, things like autoplay, sound etc. But then you run the risk of advertisers just not bothering to advertise there any more.
 
Seems fair but if it works many will follow suit and adblockers will end up becoming site blockers.
 
beans100 said:
Yeah, I can't imagine the internet will die and all websites will close because of adblockers. There's so many free alternatives to any site. Lots of sites just waiting for the traffic to come their way.
@Wired, not even a good try, not even close to mediocre. Please put in some more effort and thought into your work.
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Do you not see that the reason why the alternatives are free is because they are ad supported. And if all the ad blocking people migrate to the other free alternatives who is going to pay for the extra server capacity need to serve them?
 
A nostalgic moment, I remember Wired. They were very relevant in the 90s.
 
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