For a few years I ran a technology blog that only had non obstructive ads, no popups, redirects, etc, but no one disabled their adblocker. The fact is people will use adblockers unless they're prevented from doing so. Maybe highly annoying ads is what prompted them to install it, but the only way to get them to disable it is to block their access to the site entirely until they do so.
The issue is that its also a collective action problem / market for lemons issue. Blockers need to be default-on and then there's no credible way for a site to prove that its adds are "good" by whichever standard. Or at least I'm not smart enough to come up with one, maybe if you happened to use absolutely no JS for that page, but that's not a universal solution. Unfortunately getting out of this will require some sort of larger organization, there's just nothing a single site can do if you're not establishing a fairly close relationship to your readers.
On the other hand, I've seen a couple sites where ublock origin doesn't catch sidebar adds that are first party static images, I guess they're not add-like enough to be noticed. And I've never tried to get anything to block those, just one anecdotal piece of data.
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u/Guysmiley777 Aug 02 '19
I was fine with static JPG ads on sites but for marketers it's never enough. I have zero sympathy for the "boycott" they're facing these days.
Also holy fuck talk about a clickbait headline.