On: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?

[bh42222]

I am very surprised to hear this given your expertise.

I would have imagined you visiting every website with at least two browser at the same time, at least one of them blocking all ads and then some.

[patio11 → bh42222]

I am totally mystified as to how that workflow would improve my life. It sounds like a lot of work for no gain. Can you explain to me what you find attractive about it or think I would find attractive about it?

[viraptor → patio11]

I guess it was a joke related to your A/B testing.

[bh42222 → viraptor]

Yep, visual A/B testing.

But seriously, does this mean there isn't even any point in trying to find a way to give people who use ad blocking something which would almost never be blocked, and yet could still be considered advertising if not blatantly so?

Are users of ad blocking just a complete and total void from an advertising perspective?

For example I know reddit sometimes has games in their ad banner, that's a way to encourage people to turn off add blocking.

And some TV advertisers are designing adds which still look good at Tivo fast forward speed.

[jules → patio11]

He's probably referring to A/B testing your browsing experience.

[bradleyland → bh42222]

I'm puzzled that you'd couple "expertise" and ad blocking. Why do you feel the two go together?

[bh42222 → bradleyland]

I am relating patio11's expertise in web advertising to ad blocking browsers. As in, would he be interested in how the web looks to someone using ad blocking.