News Corp rolls out trial to deny access to users of ad-blockers
News Corp has followed through on its plans to block users of ad-blockers with pop-ups, suggesting users need to subscribe or white-list the website to access the content.
Eales: “Without [ads] we can’t afford to offer quality journalism”
“We are funded by a combination of ads and subscription and without that business model we can’t afford to provide this [journalistic] service.”
A 30 second change to your Adblocking software will circumvent the detection script they’re using.
Is anyone at News aware how trivial this change is? Seems rather odd to say it’s a ‘serious issue’ and then deploy one of the weakest means to address it…
This was a fitting post about News.com.au’s ad user experience on Imgur yesterday
http://imgur.com/gallery/wVHIu/new
Even more fitting: Welcome to Mumbrella’s new look – https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiEV1wqUgAAKHnc.jpg:large
Not a good first impression of the new design…
I have no problem with ad’s I know that nothing is for free. But ad’s that take a long time to load hurt the advertisers who are sharing the page because after a few seconds Iam ready to leave the page rather than watch the page jump around for what is 5 seconds or more.at times. Fix slow ad’s and I wont be shopping for a ad blocker.
I completely agree. It’s not so much the ads but the bloated webpages that take an eternity to load and chew up my data.