{"id":154768,"date":"2016-02-10T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154768"},"modified":"2016-02-10T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:41:08","slug":"wired-will-block-content-for-users-who-use-ad-blockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/154768-wired-will-block-content-for-users-who-use-ad-blockers.html","title":{"rendered":"Wired will block content for users who use ad-blockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired will start restricting access to articles if users implement\u00a0an ad blocker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn an average day, more than 20 percent of the traffic to Wired comes from a reader who is blocking our ads,\u201d the publication said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that you come to our site primarily to read our content, but it\u2019s important to be clear that advertising is how we keep Wired going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wired said there will be two ways for visitors who are using ad blockers to access the site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add Wired to their ad blocker\u2019s whitelist, so you view ads.<\/li>\n<li>Subscribe to an ad-free version of Wired for $1 a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cEither way, you will get to experience the great content that you expect from Wired, and you\u2019ll be supporting our journalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ad blocking<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/118031-how-websites-pay-to-get-past-your-adblock.html\">How websites pay to get past your adblock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/136522-the-death-of-online-advertising.html\">The death of online advertising<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/139442-the-war-on-online-advertising.html\">The war on online advertising<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired will start blocking content for users who use ad-blocking software, and give them the opportunity to subscribe to an ad-free version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,33502,2056],"class_list":["post-154768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-ad-blockers","tag-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154770,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154768\/revisions\/154770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}