{"id":5059,"date":"2015-10-06T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2015-09-23T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:12:55","slug":"linked-welcome-to-the-block-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/linked-welcome-to-the-block-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Welcome to the Block Party&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2015\/09\/welcome-to-the-block-party\">The Awl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The central philosophical dispute over ad-blocking goes something like this: Publishers have no right to force readers to be exposed to certain kinds of ads or allow numerous third parties to collect their information without a prior agreement; readers have no right to read or view content that they don\u2019t pay for in one form or another, be it with money or data. What is not in dispute is that if ad-blocking becomes ubiquitous (and there\u2019s nearly every reason to think that it will be!) it will be devastating for publications who derive much or all of their revenue from advertising\u2014which comprises most of the professional publications on the internet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ad Blocking on Mobile is here to stay. I\u2019m on the side of block everything and force publishers to evolve or die. I pay for the content I consume online. Give me a way to pay or don\u2019t give me ads. Hulu\u2019s model doesn\u2019t work for me. I won\u2019t pay to still see ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via The Awl: The central philosophical dispute over ad-blocking goes something like this: Publishers have no right to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:14:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"4003980e-2a53-441e-bacf-cc9ac92fa915","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:14:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQAOYDipTRB66z8yayS-pFQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1jB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6699,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/linked-medium-shifts\/","url_meta":{"origin":5059,"position":0},"title":"Linked: Medium Shifts","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium Blog: Upon further reflection, it\u2019s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet. It simply doesn\u2019t serve people. In fact, it\u2019s not designed to. The vast majority of articles, videos, and other \u201ccontent\u201d we all consume on a daily basis is paid for\u200a\u2014\u200adirectly or indirectly\u200a\u2014\u200aby\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8481,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/03\/25\/linked-the-mess-at-medium\/","url_meta":{"origin":5059,"position":1},"title":"Linked: The Mess at Medium","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Via The Verge:\u00a0 Worse, the data suggested that Medium\u2019s original journalism was not converting free readers to paid subscribers. Surprisingly, what seemed to convert readers most reliably were random stories on the digital content farm that had sprung up around its high-gloss publications. People were largely not finding these stories\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8449,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/02\/17\/linked-on-blocking-criticism\/","url_meta":{"origin":5059,"position":2},"title":"Linked: On Blocking &#038; Criticism","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Great Twitter Thread by Zeynep who is a writer \/ journalist for various publications: I try not to block actual criticism but things I've started pretty much automatically blocking to make Twitter usable: Snitch-tagging; \"Oh you're surprised?\" reply guys; People who respond to an article *I* wrote with a point\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5918,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/linked-wired-thinks-https-can-help-fight-vs-ad-blocking\/","url_meta":{"origin":5059,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Wired thinks https can help fight vs ad blocking&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via DigiDay: Wired has a bigger ad blocking problem than the average publication, owing to its tech-savvy audience. More than 20 percent of its audience blocks ads, according to the publication, compared to 16 percent of the U.S. online population as of the second quarter of 2015, according to PageFair.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5846,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/linked-mediums-latest-intriguing-publishing-experiment\/","url_meta":{"origin":5059,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Medium\u2019s latest intriguing publishing experiment&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via SixColors: Medium\u2019s membership program, which it\u2019s carefully not labeling a subscription, is available to its early partners. It lets a publisher set a single, recurring monthly tier, and Medium collects the money. A publisher can mark specific posts for members only. Medium will charge a 20% fee, but pass\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6974,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/16\/linked-the-coming-war-browsers-against-advertising-pollution\/","url_meta":{"origin":5059,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Coming War: Browsers Against Advertising Pollution&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Monday Note: (A Medium Blog) The other big announcement last week is Apple\u2019s plan to block advertisers' ability to track users from one site to another (details here). Called retargeting, the tracking feature is a powerful booster for advertisers. 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