Anti adblockers & Traffic

[Dilip]

I often see that people leave when they find an anti-adblocker installed on a website. It annoys more when it shows a popup or modal asking visitors to disable Adblock feature.

What is your experience? Did it affect traffic badly in your case?

 

[Sara]

It affects traffic in my case. Yeah, I know that they want to make their own money but too much of everything is bad.

One or two ads is normal but flooding the sites with more ads can cause traffic and it triggers me easily.

 

[Dilip]

Some webmasters are aggressive in making money. They do not believe in giving something and then asking for payment. Instead, they trick visitors and try to earn money. This trend is causing harm to th entire online business. A few are causing others to lose a lot of money. Adblockers were invented because of these greedy people.

 

[Sara]

That's very bad for some webmasters. They want to make quick money, the reason they are using ads. Thanks to those who invented adblockers to tame the greediness of some people.

 

[Dilip]

There should be always a fair path if monetisation needs to succeed. It is ok to have a strategy but tricking users can go bad. It will ruin the whole project in long run.

 

[Maddox]

There should be always a fair path if monetisation needs to succeed. It is ok to have a strategy but tricking users can go bad. It will ruin the whole project in long run.

If it's used in aggressive manner, a lot of people will not be happy with such strategy and they might end up quitting using the community.

I know a lot of communities that I have stopped going to or visiting as a result of this.

 

[Frank]

Some webmasters are aggressive in making money. They do not believe in giving something and then asking for payment. Instead, they trick visitors and try to earn money. This trend is causing harm to th entire online business. A few are causing others to lose a lot of money. Adblockers were invented because of these greedy people.

They should have let users decide if they want to see those ads or not. Doing something that can now trick those visiting the sites to watch those ads is never good at all.

 

[Richard667]

Some webmasters are aggressive in making money. They do not believe in giving something and then asking for payment. Instead, they trick visitors and try to earn money. This trend is causing harm to th entire online business. A few are causing others to lose a lot of money. Adblockers were invented because of these greedy people.

I agree with you. I’ve also noticed that when a site feels too pushy or misleading, I just leave immediately. In the long run, honest value always wins out over those short-term tactics.