> Do ad blockers stop sites from making money?
The honest answer to this is “Yes!”, not a 7-paragraph non-answer.
The honest answer to this is “Yes!”, not a 7-paragraph non-answer.
They obviously don't stop a shopping site from selling products or from GitLab.com registering users for GitLab services etc.
If the way a site makes money is by abusing the visitors, adblockers stop the abuse and the money from that* side of things, which may be all the income they get, but not necessarily.
So, this is not a simple yes/no situation.
Somebody needs to take responsibility for the malicious and broken ads. I really don't care who does it; you can contract it out, or do it internally, just as long as the work actually gets done.
The work isn't getting done, right now.
> Adblockers stop sites from making money
Stop right there. You don’t get to decide the site’s business model. They get to choose it, not you.
And I mean duh, no kidding adblockers don’t stop online stores from letting people buy stuff. Thanks for the insight there.
They can choose any model they like, but we decide whether or not it's profitable.
I didn't say I get to DECIDE the site's business model, I get to JUDGE it. Do you want to argue about my judgment that ad-based business models are harmful?