Voluntary Adblocking
An interesting approach to adblocking is that of broadbandreports.com’s webmaster with this page on adblocking. If you register with the site, you can choose to browser with no ads. Or, to try it out, you can turn off ads for an hour.
That’s an interesting idea. A registration is worth enough to this webmaster that he won’t serve ads to users who don’t want to see them. Not a bad concession since these users probably don’t respond to ads anyway, he gets a registered user, and his users are happier.
It’s ideas like this, users being able to declare their preference, and webmasters honoring those preferences is the direction the industry needs to head instead of the cat-and-mouse game with advertisers and adblocking software developers.
January 5th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
I notice that the ad-free feature is currently only available if you pay $10 to register as a premium member, and not for the free membership. So it’s only really a viable approach for sites that have found some other way to pay the bills.
August 5th, 2005 at 9:42 am
See how they want to make money and make you pay *NOT* to see ads! Several sites have such features - You can enjoy a “no ads” version if you *pay* say $10/month !!!
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