Ethics & the Google, Amazon, paying for ads thing

[chriswcs]

As far as I have understood, large companies DO NOT pay for their ads to be accepted, but pay for the whitelisting PROCESS.
This is completely understandable as they have a great deal more ads to be looked at than most small websites.
I don't want to discuss this part of ABP.

I want to discuss Acceptable Ads. According to the survey in 2011, 75% of people are okay with advertising as long as it's not intrusive. I think this is a good place to start.

Personally, I think advertisements are okay if they help me find something interesting. Not clickbait crap-lists, but genuinely interesting. If I'm reading about the stock market, I wouldn't mind an ad connecting me to additional information about stock market trends in the past year.

What about you? At what point is an advertisement okay? (It's okay if your opinion differs from the Acceptable Ads manifesto).

Remember that there are many sides to this: the consumer, the user, the advertiser, the supplier, the gatekeeper (ABP), the government, etc. Please keep these actors in mind when replying!

[Donaldzzz]

As an advertiser I don't mind publishing ads at various opportunities.

[farola]

I believe an acceptable ad (besides the usual non-intrusiveness: being small, static, etc) is one that is well placed. Simple as that. For example, when I'm getting information about a product, it's okay to advertise similar products, or to sites that sell those products. This way, the ad is aggregating useful information that can benefit me.
Usually those types of ads appear when you are looking for them, like in review sites or the paid results from Google searches.

[pactsocin]

Très interessante cette discution, merci pour vos retours et vos lectures.

[jonnymoon96]

many people unfortunately consider ad block plus to be the mafia they accuse the eyeo corporation about google amazon and others paying but if this is not something you approve of there is always adblock but the large corporation who do pay the eyeo corporation have to go through the accepted ads process but for a small business it is free as far as my knowledge goes i can understand if you are not comfortable with adblock plus business model this is why i have suggested alternatives but so far they have been transparent about it but they do not show how much they get paid though

[treos]

many people unfortunately consider ad block plus to be the mafia they accuse the eyeo corporation about google amazon and others paying but if this is not something you approve of there is always adblock but the large corporation who do pay the eyeo corporation have to go through the accepted ads process but for a small business it is free as far as my knowledge goes i can understand if you are not comfortable with adblock plus business model this is why i have suggested alternatives but so far they have been transparent about it but they do not show how much they get paid though

...what? dude, use proper punctuation when typing a paragraph like that (or anything really). that's just a big unreadable wall of letters with no punctuation at all.

[kenzie25]

so, whitelist is not same as accepting ads?

[mapx]

so, whitelist is not same as accepting ads?

about acceptable ads
acceptable-ads

whitelisting is an action you can do yourself for a page / site.

"acceptable ads" are organized in a separate list which can be disabled.