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by michaelperalta 5485 days ago
The thing about Ad-Block is that is does have the problem with differentiating between content and ad's from time to time. One example is when trying to watch a video on Yahoo or Hulu. Ad-Block does not have the ability to disable those type of ad's and for the most part those are the type of advertisements the general community would want to eliminate. I myself use Ad-Block and the biggest benefit I see from it is blocking the ad's on YouTube videos that everyone seems to hate. With that said I also disable for certain sites because I see the power in having tailored advertisements i.e. Facebook so for them I leave it disabled. Selling it as a service would be difficult because for the most part people would only pay if it was a big inconvenience and for most people it's not. The fact that their is at least a marginal benefit for the ad's they see also makes it much more difficult.