One of my first blog posts in a while, I go over Google’s recent web proposal, and point out exactly why it won’t turn out well. Hope y’all have fun with it.
Note what I mentioned in the blog post: most will probably be fine with advertisements so long as they aren’t annoying.
You don’t get to act the victim when you actively hurt the UX by having avertisements that get all up in your face and want to eek out every single penny like we’re slaves.
There are plenty of non-annoying ads around. When ABP (I think?) tried to introduce a non-annoying ad white list, people collectively shat a brick and decided ABP had “sold out”, and not because the list was bad but because they don’t want any ads at all, period.
And it’s not like I love ads; I’d rather pay for services than have to see ads, but a lot of the time that’s not an option. We wouldn’t be in this mess if people were willing to either pay for services (which understandably is a problem for poorer people) or be subjected to even boring banners or video clips that don’t cover content.
