| You have a valid point that it takes time. However, the cost to time ratio isn't sensible. It's "reported" that Google and some other companies have been paying Ad Block Plus in the region of $120 million per year for their ads to be whitelisted. Secondly, their taking 30% of revenue for the whole period the networks ad's are approved. If they stop paying, their adverts get blocked. The main issue is that they go into it with a blanket statement of all ads are evil and are blocked for the "users sake" but we'll make a decision on behalf of users if we think your paying enough to get the adverts showing. As a user myself, I hate bad adverts but how do they know what I think is an acceptable? They've never asked me. If I said to you, you're not allowed to reply to any thread on Ycombinator until I've decided you can on behalf of the community, oh, and you need to pay me 30% of your wages so I can keep "reviewing" the situation... you'd tell me to bugger off. |