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The problem is, the people that would know about your ad-free service would be the same people that know about Adblock Plus, so it would be a hard sell. Perhaps if you marketed it to older generations with no technical experience it might work out, but they would probably want to buy the software from a store.

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You'd be surprised how many people don't know ad-block exists. I'm not just talking about my 65 year old uncle, John, either. I can only speak from first hand experience, but a majority of my 20-something year old friends are in the dark too.

Only 1% of US internet-goers have it installed. The hard part will be educating the other 99%.

Isn't there any way around adblock? Maybe you can't stop adblock from blocking your ads, but can't you make it impossible for adblock to distinguish between ads and content?

I'm not an expert on how adblock works, but I thought it just blocked stuff coming in from certain domains.

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