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<blockquote data-quote="Arequire" data-source="post: 1067402" data-attributes="member: 59283">I refer back to my previous post about an ad blocking company being financially dependent on the world&#039;s biggest advertising company.You know, I wrote a little sentence here about how no one reads T&amp;C&#039;s and that you&#039;re being pedantic, but I checked their T&amp;Cs and:So touché. I&#039;ll give you that one. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😅" title="Grinning face with sweat&nbsp; &nbsp; :sweat_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f605.png" data-shortname=":sweat_smile:" /> But failing to block all ads is different than the ad block developer throwing up their hands and saying they&#039;re not going to do what&#039;s necessary to block ads on the second most-visited website in the world because... they feel doing so is immoral, I guess?I don&#039;t know about negotiations, but there&#039;s a statement in eyeo&#039;s blog post that I agree with:But that&#039;s not going to happen, because ad networks refuse to either acknowledge or address users grievances. You bring up tracking and they start spouting off about how people want relevant ads. You bring up malvertising and they throw out statistics about how many bad ads they purged last year. Endlessly regurgitating the same corporate drivel all while the negative aspects of online advertising continue to worsen. And when users turn to the only tool we have to fight back, the industry throws a collective hissy fit; calls us thieves, tries to ban us from accessing content, tries to make ad blocking itself illegal, and then they&#039;re shocked when we refuse to compromise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arequire, post: 1067402, member: 59283"] I refer back to my previous post about an ad blocking company being financially dependent on the world's biggest advertising company. You know, I wrote a little sentence here about how no one reads T&C's and that you're being pedantic, but I checked their T&Cs and: So touché. I'll give you that one. 😅 But failing to block all ads is different than the ad block developer throwing up their hands and saying they're not going to do what's necessary to block ads on the second most-visited website in the world because... they feel doing so is immoral, I guess? I don't know about negotiations, but there's a statement in eyeo's blog post that I agree with: But that's not going to happen, because ad networks refuse to either acknowledge or address users grievances. You bring up tracking and they start spouting off about how people want relevant ads. You bring up malvertising and they throw out statistics about how many bad ads they purged last year. Endlessly regurgitating the same corporate drivel all while the negative aspects of online advertising continue to worsen. And when users turn to the [I]only[/I] tool we have to fight back, the industry throws a collective hissy fit; calls us thieves, tries to ban us from accessing content, tries to make ad blocking itself illegal, and then they're shocked when we refuse to compromise. [/QUOTE]

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