Monday, August 10, 2015

The Ads, They Are Blocked

I don't fault people for using adblockers. The annoying thing is that web sites (mostly the "respectable" ones, not sucky little blogs like this one) have been implementing increasingly annoying and intrusive ads over the last couple of years. There seems to be an ad cycle for this stuff, and we're on the upswing in pop-up auto-on video! audio! ads. I don't put any of that crap (knowingly, occasionally it has crept in) on this site, but when people install adblockers they end up blocking the mostly innocuous ads I run on this site.

I guess I'm a bit annoyed because I've done my best to not put annoying ads on this site, but because every other shitty website on the internets does I take the hit. Again, I get why people install adblockers. Just annoyed that relatively well-behaved site owners, like Eschaton World Industries, get punished for the shitty ads that others put on their sites.

(and, yes, I've turned down many lucrative but shitty ads)