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by NoCowLevel
4573 days ago
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If 90% of people stop ads from reaching them, then online advertising becomes almost useless. Its probably a bad thing because the companies spending billions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_advertising) to advertise, will stop doing so. The websites getting billions in ad revenue will stop getting money.
Case in point: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2013/10/17/goo... "Google derives most of its value from advertising where it competes primarily with Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook. . According to our estimates, standard PC search ads account for over 30% of Google’s overall value and 60% of its revenues. However, the recent trend in earnings indicates that the growth in online PC ads revenues is slowing down. Additionally, the company’s market share of the U.S. search marketplace has been stagnant at 67%, according to latest data by comScore." Primarily ad-funded free websites would make losses, or go paid. Us, the customers, pay for not wanting to see ads.
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If ever blockers are used by a majority of people, content and ad providers will have to deal (rather than whine) with this reality, it's called "market forces".
Now that's just regarding ads, but of course there is another consideration for blockers: privacy. It's creepy to stumble onto a marketing firm bragging to their prospective clients that they will be able to "see absolutely everything your visitors do on your webpage ... See their every mouse move, click and keystroke".