How Much Would You Pay To NEVER See An Online Ad Again?

[Rickson9]

Imagine a $120 box that sits between your cable modem (the box that brings the internet into your house) and your wireless router (the thing that fills your house with wifi) and blocks every kind of ad that can be delivered over the internet. No more ads on your laptop, tablet or smartphone. No more ads on webpages, in music streams, in front of videos, or on mobile apps. That’s the goal of AdTrap, a device that is already in the working prototype stage...

How much would you pay to never see an online ad again? – Quartz

 

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[Nick]

Or you can install adblock for free in 2 minutes.

 

[PatrickP]

Does adblock stop even those little banner ads on the side say from Adsource?

Or ads in youtube or yahoo videos? Serious question I don't know the answer and am curious.

Personally I would easily pay $1000 to never see another ad ever again. Maybe even 5K if it was lifetime.

The time I would save not having to wait through those 15 second ads before I can watch a funny cat video, errrrr I mean important business videos, would be worth it to me.

 

[Determined2012]

I don't know if I would want to block ALL of the ads...Because in some way ads help to keep me up to date on whats current... Now those ads that pop up after I go to specific sites- like clothing or shoe sites--- I don't need to see those.

The worst ads are the ones that auto start with AUDIO once you go to the page. MediaTakeout did not have ANY ads when they started out- now you can barely browse their website because you are inundated with a million click and auto start audio ads. I don't even go to that site anymore. The ads will pop up on TOP of the articles. WTF

 

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[Vigilante]

I would pay exactly zero. Firefox blocks all pop-up ads, and I am on the internet so frequently that my mind is trained to gravitate only towards content. I hardly notice any advertising, ever. Subliminal advertising doesn't bug me. When everyone was bitching about the ads on this forum, for example, I never noticed them. I will seek out sponsors of sites I am interested in, and buy from them intentionally to support their advertising spending.

But... with Firefox filtering a lot of advertising, my answer is I would pay exactly $0 to further filter anything. Plus, opposing Patrick's point... the internet cycles are measured in days, not years. There's no such thing as a lifetime anything as it pertains to online. Five years from now, this medium will be completely different... likely negating any efforts for any company that builds any business model based on what the internet looks like today.

There is no winning the battle online. As soon as you have it beat, someone will come up with a way to beat your fix and then you have charged people for a service you are literally incapable of delivering.

Zero.

 

[EnemyMind]

That's an expensive firewall that is going to be hell to keep up to date with all the ads changing locations and coming from new servers and IP's

Adblock takes care of nearly all of that stuff for you and is quite easy.

Not to mention your tech support line is going to be insane as the computer savvy will already be using adblock. Running the math on that at 100$ a piece - costs - staff for support, I don't think that's survivable unless you are selling tons of these

You might try getting in touch with the creator of Adblock and seeing if he has any input. But I personally have would not spend any money on this product.

 

[DennisD]

$0.
For somebody who works with ads as a part of their business, I think seeing other ads is important.

 

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[Nick]

Does adblock stop even those little banner ads on the side say from Adsource?

Or ads in youtube or yahoo videos? Serious question I don't know the answer and am curious.

Yes, blocks all adsense ads, all popups, video ads on youtube, and everywhere, etc.

 

[The-J]

I would pay nothing. I barely see ads. They don't distract me from content.

Plus, I have AdBlock for both Firefox and Chrome.

I see Facebook ads, though, since I run them and need to see what others are doing.

 

[vtlambo]

Ads don't really bother me, I'm usually pretty focused enough to see what I need to see on the page.

If I'm going on youtube to check out a video the 5-15 seconds of ads doesn't bother me.

But the idea of a blocker is great. Many folks don't have the patience and if you can solve this problem to kill the ads - you're in business. Similar to what Firefox has done but it's free.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I like ads. It's part of the business I'm in at the moment. I also enjoy seeing who's advertising what.

To answer the question, ZERO.

 

[johnp]

I listen to radio commercials on the way to work rather than music just so I can learn from all of the ads. I realized that we can learn some much about what to do and what not do to just by looking at the ads. I love ads so I wouldn't pay one $.

 

[theDarkness]

I like seeing ads. I'm always trying to notice where and how people are advertising, and I try to keep my mind fresh and learn from them. Sometimes I see a really effective (or stupendously non-effective) ad and it is all worth it.

Even seeing annoying ads can help me get a sense of what makes it so annoying (coughyoutubecough).

Plus as we are more and more able to serve relevant ads, sometimes I am actually personally glad to see one. There was an ad on this forum the other day where I was like, "Damn, that's exactly what I've been looking for without even knowing it." When ads can become that relevant everyone benefits.

 

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[AndrewNC]

I would pay $10,000 to develop a product to beat that ad blocker, and then sell that to advertisers

 

[rc08234]

Ads make the internet go round....

 

[CommonCents]

the only ads that bother me are the video ads at beginning of video content. 5-10 secs are tolerable. 20-30 sec and I skip the video.

other place ads don't really bother me at all.

 

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[jon.a]

zero, I'm ad blind

 

[Likwid24]

I like ads. It's part of the business I'm in at the moment. I also enjoy seeing who's advertising what.

To answer the question, ZERO.

Without Ads, a lot of sites would lose their main source of revenue and would be shut down. Not good for business.

Also, without ads, it would make it that much more difficult to find out about new products. For me, it's important to see all the new products out there for my business. I want to see whats out there.

I listen to radio commercials on the way to work rather than music just so I can learn from all of the ads. I realized that we can learn some much about what to do and what not do to just by looking at the ads. I love ads so I wouldn't pay one $.

This too.

 

[DeletedUser2]

there are ads?

 

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[Ohmer]

I thought of doing something similar years ago, but then asked myself is there a need for such a product. My answer was no, I didn't feel like users of the internet really needed it.

 

[The-J]

Without Ads, a lot of sites would lose their main source of revenue and would be shut down. Not good for business.

Adblock came out years ago. No site that I've known has ever shut down due to AdBlock causing a lack in ad revenue, probably due to the rapid increase in keyword prices.

 

[Rickson9]

How badly will this business fail?

 

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[The-J]

Pretty badly. I would, however, pay $120 for a box that stopped me from ever having to see a commercial again.

Oh wait, they already have that. It's called TiVo.

 

[The-J]

I would pay $10,000 to develop a product to beat that ad blocker, and then sell that to advertisers

Apologies for double post but speed++

 

[1PercentStreet]

Ok, this is just a bit of rambling. I think I might have got it wrong lol but was bored and felt compelled to write something up.

If there was ever something better then adblock, the marketing world would really need to adapt to it. You drink coke over pepsi because of advertising. You eat McDonald's over Burger King because of advertising.

Everything that you do in your life revolves around companies that advertise to you. Now there are exceptions to every rule, but for a majority it rings true.

Now, let me give you a small example of something in CPA Affiliate Marketing. I have experience in this field and the logistics of every campaign has to be precise.
Okay, so we have a campaign. We are promoting a company that pays us per lead that we generate.
Most people go by epc to see how profitable they can get. If you generate a $3.55 epc that means for every click you get from a traffic source such as google adwords, it's worth $3.55 to you. Now, if you were making $3.55 per click and only spending $2.50 per click you're in the black.

Let's account for AdBlock Plus now.
15,041,316 Average Daily Users
30% of that is United States users
4,200,874 (30%)
So that is approximentally 1.71% of the United States population that uses the internet which is 245,203,319 people.
Now, let's say you target a demographic that covers 5,000,000 people on facebook.
That narrows it down to 2.66% of the United States population of people using AdBlockPlus with facebook.
133,000 people using adblock plus

Okay. so 2.66% doesn't seem like a lot right? Well, you're automatically taking those 133k people out of the equation. Account for the people that will simply never buy your product. Some businesses thrive on those small margins.

Add in your adblocker that might increase your blockage to more then 10% of users in the USA and things will be vastly different. It drives up ad prices, which either kicks people out of business or drives up prices. It might even affect inflation. That's for another topic.



-this is all purely opinion, if you find anything wrong with this please take it up with my e-lawyer Yuck UFO -

 

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[VIP]

I'd pay a monthly service for the complete opposite where the software figures out a way to bypass adblock, and major antivirus, and firewall softwares and show your ads to the visitors. More exposure means more clicks which = more $$$$$.

 

[Likwid24]

Adblock came out years ago. No site that I've known has ever shut down due to AdBlock causing a lack in ad revenue, probably due to the rapid increase in keyword prices.

I meant if it was to the point where companies realize that there were so many people using an ad blocker that the was no point for them to waste their money on advertising.

 

[PatrickP]

Yes, blocks all adsense ads, all popups, video ads on youtube, and everywhere, etc.

Holy heck that is FANTASTIC!

I don't need to see ads of what other companies are doing. I do my own thing according to what the customer wants and asks for. Often that has nothing to do with what other companies THINK they want and say in those annoying ads.

Any site that has an F-in pop up to subscribe to another email I immediately close that window, can't stand that stuff.

Thanks

brb getting adblock naoooooooooooooo

 

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[PatrickP]

Yes, blocks all adsense ads, all popups, video ads on youtube, and everywhere, etc.

ok it took less than 3 mins.

It is AMAZING!

The speed to open a new widow is MUCH faster, the page is set up much better. I just tried 2 videos on another computer and the same videos with the Adblock and it WORKED!

SPEED + FOREVER!

I often have 15 windows open as I am following a trail to educate myself on something for business and the damn flashing ads slow things down and will even freeze up my computer.

To do my own little test, yes it is just n=1 (then again for this I really only care about that 1 ) I opened 25 windows, no slowing, no freezing it is FLIPPING AMAZING!

 

[CommonCents]

so adblock can strip out the commercials on front end of videos?

is it a seperate program or one of the plugins/add-ons for firefox? i see about 10 of them listed.

I never thought of the page load speed up aspect. Thanks Patrick.

update: just added adblock plus on to firefox. it does seem to strip out commercials on videos, just tried on nbcnews. very nice.