| what is the internet What is the internet? Aren't we forgetting something here?
A cable network - a satellite network - that's different.
But what we have here is the internet. You can publish your website, and people can see it, or people can not see it. It's up to them.
No one can be forced to view your website.
If you choose to have restrictions on your website, they probably need to be clear, and not fine print. The majority of sites don't care about adblockers, so the solution is essentially a list of some sort.
Shout it out -- we don't like adblockers here! Let us know.
That way people can make a list. A list of sites that don't like adblockers. That ought to serve some purpose -- perhaps it can be programmed in to the adblockers themselves, and some dialog box can pop up to inform the user that they are using an adblocker and the site doesn't allow their use. Or something like that.
The internet is not there to guarantee you advertising revenue -- if you can't afford it, there are lots of free web hosts out there 
The internet, as I think a lot of folks see it, is about free speech. It's a public thing. You publish your website, and it's "out there" on the "internet". The internet is not there to guarantee you advertising revenue. It's there to allow you to publish your website in html or xml or whatever other format. TCP/IP. TCP/IP has very little to do with any guarantee of advertising revenue.
In any case, the more this escalates, the more likely that there will be a "list". A list of websites that don't like adblockers.
Who wants to be on that list? So you can choose - an adblocker that prevents you or warns you that it needs to disable itself to visit a website, or no adblocker at all.
The internet is not designed to guarantee websites advertising revenue. I think that freedom is the stronger force, and that these websites will eventually want to reconsider getting blacklisted by adblockers - because they are very popular pieces of software. |
