06-19-2016, 10:10 AM
Welp, DeviantArt is now one of the sites that has big popup anti-adblock-ad-banner-things.
And from what I can tell, most everyone is annoyed about it because:
1. The site has a history of obtrusive, annoying ads.
2. The site has a history of infectious and malicious ads.
3. The site has a history of inappropriate ads.
4. They make money from other sources already, and are one of the largest art hosting sites in the world.
5. Any anti-adblock measures are ridiculous. People are not going to disable their adblock for you unless you can 100% guarentee your ads will not:
A. Slow down your loading times and take up bandwidth
B. Play annoying sounds or animations when you hover over them or randomly when the page is done loading
C. Infect your computer with malware or other crap
D. any other amount of stupidity.
People who use adblockers don't need to change. The people who use advertisments as their main revenue source, or really at all need to change. Nobody even clicks these ads, at least not intentionally, thereby making them pointless, and often turn people away from whatever they're selling.
Ads are dying as a business in the first place. People skip, ignore, or bypass them on computers, and often fast-forward through them when watching TV thanks to DVR technology. Ads are getting more annoying and malicious, making people not want your product or whatever, assuming you aren't just one of the numerous scam artists plaguing the industry, and commercials are becoming more and more phenominally stupid and repetetive, except for maybe like... 1 or 2 which might elicit a reaction other than complete apathy or hatred the first time you see them.
Just another example of the world clinging to a system that is outdated and doesn't work well with modern society and/or technology... What a surprise... [/sarcasm]
And from what I can tell, most everyone is annoyed about it because:
1. The site has a history of obtrusive, annoying ads.
2. The site has a history of infectious and malicious ads.
3. The site has a history of inappropriate ads.
4. They make money from other sources already, and are one of the largest art hosting sites in the world.
5. Any anti-adblock measures are ridiculous. People are not going to disable their adblock for you unless you can 100% guarentee your ads will not:
A. Slow down your loading times and take up bandwidth
B. Play annoying sounds or animations when you hover over them or randomly when the page is done loading
C. Infect your computer with malware or other crap
D. any other amount of stupidity.
People who use adblockers don't need to change. The people who use advertisments as their main revenue source, or really at all need to change. Nobody even clicks these ads, at least not intentionally, thereby making them pointless, and often turn people away from whatever they're selling.
Ads are dying as a business in the first place. People skip, ignore, or bypass them on computers, and often fast-forward through them when watching TV thanks to DVR technology. Ads are getting more annoying and malicious, making people not want your product or whatever, assuming you aren't just one of the numerous scam artists plaguing the industry, and commercials are becoming more and more phenominally stupid and repetetive, except for maybe like... 1 or 2 which might elicit a reaction other than complete apathy or hatred the first time you see them.
Just another example of the world clinging to a system that is outdated and doesn't work well with modern society and/or technology... What a surprise... [/sarcasm]