Comment Re:AdBlock (Score 1) 900
Take slashdot (as an example), if everyone blocks ads, how would they "adapt"? My guess would be A) they won't, or B) they'll be reduced to making paid subscriptions mandatory, and perhaps increasing the number of advertisements masqueraded as genuine stories (such as the recent Cannon printer promotion)
Or maybe they just start placing ads in an intelligent way: ads based on the content of the site (like the Google ad), and on user preferences. If you mostly get ads you are interested in, you will look at them/click them without them being intrusive. (Again, like the Google ad: its plain text, and it has about five times the clickthrough rate of normal (not context sensitive) ads.)
Consequently, Adblock is a Good Thing: it forces advertisers to choose intelligent ads instead of intrusive ads.
Or maybe they just start placing ads in an intelligent way: ads based on the content of the site (like the Google ad), and on user preferences. If you mostly get ads you are interested in, you will look at them/click them without them being intrusive. (Again, like the Google ad: its plain text, and it has about five times the clickthrough rate of normal (not context sensitive) ads.)
Consequently, Adblock is a Good Thing: it forces advertisers to choose intelligent ads instead of intrusive ads.
