I am cynical not of ideas but of sales pitches that claim to make you tons of money out of nowhere.

See their own forum : http://forum.oiopublisher.com/discussions/

OIOPUBLISHER FULL OF WAY TOO MANY BUGS!

now thats a product that barely works.

I would like to see a better demo of this xadblock, looks like it works on my browser, I have AdBlocker Plus in my firefox and i see the banner ads come through.

if i were Rarst i wouldn't be so dismissive of this xadblock, but it looks like some people are always too cynical of a good idea. i hope these xadblock guys get the industry support that a product like theirs needs.

Wonder when their Google Ad Sense support will be ready?

Arnold – Great Lakes

I see the XadBlock banner ads getting through the ad blocker just fine. Looks like standard 3rd party ads are getting blocked though.

As for using oiopublisher, I haven't seen a website using the software yet?. How is that different than OpenX or other banner management scripts?

OpenX and oiopublisher are still blockable. You just add their local ad server location to your filter list and bingo no more ads from the bloggers website.

This XadBlock technology can't be detected. Plain and simple.

I know numerous bloggers who are perfectly fine with self-hosted systems such as oiopublisher. I had seen a lot of excellent feedback about it.

By the way I've checked with one of the adblockers and it removes banners from that xadblocks site. So why should I buy a product that obviously doesn't work?

Hosting ads on your own server is not a good solution to deal with ad blocking. Dismissive technologies like ad blocking create a significant problem for publishers like the owner of this blog. If you are not able to place third party scripts to deliver ads than the whole ad supported model goes out the window.

http://www.XadBlock.com deals with this problem head on. Their technology makes the publisher accountable for his use of third party ads, while enabling those who use ads with discretion more likely to keep the revenue they demand.

You are assuming that people that use adblockers would be happy to click those ads but evil blocks prevent them from doing that. That assumption is wrong. People who use ad-blockers install those exactly because they are NOT interested in ads.

There is also pretty valid theory that excluding users not interested in ads from cycle improves stats.

>have recently release a technology that bypasses ad-blocking software

Any webmaster with a clue knows how to bypass ad-blocking. Disable slow and bugged 3rd party scripts, sell ads directly, host them on own server, don't use abusive techniques and heavy formats.

In human language – get rid of bloat.

>I think that people will figure that in order to consume good content they will have to deal with the ads. Thats a fact of life and it will remain that way if I have anything to say about it.

Ad blockers didn't appear in vacuum. They appeared from excessive and abusive advertisement. Fact of life is that some people are not willing to put up with that and they have effective means to opt out.

I happen to think ad-blocking is out of line. It costs the publishers thousands of dollars a year to accommodate for people who want to skim the content and refuse to provide the publishers with any value in return. Consuming content is part of modern living, you cant get a news paper or magazine without ads, nor can you get you TV shows without them, despite the use of DVRs which is made for replay, not for skipping ads.

I liken the ad blocking to stealing. I dont think anyone would want to be on the other side, trying to eek a living from our creativity. Why are actors and musicians entitled to make money from people consuming their artistic works and web masters are not?

I have collected a whole lot of information on this subject and have recently release a technology that bypasses ad-blocking software. Of course it is up to the web master to use this Anti-Ad blocking technology with caution. With the power to deliver ads at their whim it must be critical for the publisher to recognize what is a good mix of ads and content. If people come to your site and are bombarded with ads every time the visit they will soon quit visiting your website.

I enable the publisher to deliver ads, if they abuse the tool its not my fault. People will vote with their clicks in the end.

Thats how it should be. I think that people will figure that in order to consume good content they will have to deal with the ads. Thats a fact of life and it will remain that way if I have anything to say about it.

Ciao.

Dylan Rosario

adUup – President and Inventor

Ads are getting out of hand for some site owners, so that's probably why more ad blockers are being used.

-Mike

It wasn't choice of seeing or not seeing ads. It was about me not seeing ads or not visiting site ever again if it required lots of time to load.

It's very funny that now I have to enable ad blocking for some sites because they are so script-filled that can't even load properly without ads being blocked.

I started using pop up blockers to just block the pop ups. However, due to the rude web sites out there that still force pop ups in spite of the blocker, I have no choice but to use AdBlock plus. I admit, it is a bit of a scorched earth policy but I am a case where the few are ruining it for the many.

As far as I am concerned, the screen real estate that a site gets is the main page. You can put up a big flash ad that covers the page until the ad completes; I am fine with that. However, the web site does not have a right to open yet another window on my desktop. My task bar is cluttered enough as it is.

If web site just keeps the adverts to the main window, I'll be more than happy to drop the AdBlock plus.