Quote:Of course, ads consume bandwidth and load on your systems. However, coming back to the core of all this - PZ is, just like all the other content sites, not a free service. That is a misconception. The ads and all their related costs (bandwidth, power consumption and, yes, also the annoyance) are the price tag. It's an implicit price tag but nonetheless a price tag.
Regardless of the reasons behind all this, the ad blocker battles are part of a "war" that cannot be won by either side because most of the relevant sites will either have a paywall (which is what no publisher wants) or are gone forever. At the end of the day, ad blockers are a lose-lose technology.
Is this so?
And if, are viruses and other malware distributed via the so beloved ad-channel
also part of the payment the "customers" must be willing to pay?
Which responsibility do you as a content-provider take?
Are you liable for the damage your ad-content does on the
computers of your readers?
Honestly Klaus, you have a very very biased view. A view that I do not share.
A view that will likely force me to end my time in PZ sooner or later.
If ad-blockers are a lose-lose technology ... so are ads!
Rainer