These negative ABP articles are self-defeating (Score 2, Interesting)

These type of negative articles written by nervous advertisers are self defeating in their nature. The bloggers (almost always working for ad-supported sites) try to spread FUD about "the doom of the internet as we currently know it" because they see ABP becoming a threat to THEIR current business model. Well, I say that "the doom of the internet as we currently know it" may be the best thing to ever happen to the web. Most of us were using the internet to escape the bombardment of advertisement in almost every aspect of our daily lives. It was very nice. Then someone, somewhere found that if he put up an ad, he could hope to make a little money when bandwidth and hosting a site was fairly expensive. Well, those things cost next to nothing now but greedy people want to use the web MAINLY to make money from their sites advertising. What started out to be a simple ad on a site turned into pure greed as many webmasters have loaded their sites with as many ads as they can find onto their sites. I find it interesting (but not surprising) is that the people who are actually writing most of the negative articles about ABP are bloggers. That is like someone walking into the middle of a public place and demanding that everyone there pay him one dollar apiece to listen to his opinions on things. This is not to say that I don't enjoy reading some blogger's opinions (I do), I just don't think that they have the right to set any terms for listening to their opinions of things. The users' "comments" to a web article are as much a part of that site's content as the guy who wrote an opinion .... what do those people get in return? They get no part of that income and have to put up with the ads even though they contribute to the site as much as the article's author has with their OWN opinions. Complaining that contributers to your site are thieves because they aren't viewing your ads is absolutely insane. Do you find a site with an article with no replies very good? It just looks like another "lost" opinion in a sea of personal opinions. Opinions are like azzholes, folks .. everyone has one. Some are entertaining, but I certainly don't think someone has the right to be paid BECAUSE of one(like mine here)! On another note, advertisers have have been ramming advertisements down users' throats for a while now ... not to mention trying to find out everything about a user possible and to track their every move along the way. People have just decided that they do NOT like advertising's business model anymore and now have the technology to do something about it. The web has actually become worse than television is some ways. As least with TV, you only have to see one ad at a time. It's not advertising that is the problem ... it's OVER-advertising, OVER-pushing it, and simply OVER-doing everything that is possible to do on the web from that point of a business perspective. "Annoy them, trick them, pound them until they click on something .. either by accident or on purpose". I also find it puzzling that these stories are afraid of a plugin that is used in about 1% of the world's computers. All of these articles, good or bad, only increases awareness of ABP and download numbers get bigger. Large companies do not even discuss ABP openly because they are only 2 conclusions that can be drawn: 1. ABP works great! 2. ABP is bad because it works great! ... and most users really hate ads (and that's a fact!). ..... rick 752 (author of the EasyList for Adblock Plus)