Ask HN: Should ad blockers be limited?
There is no doubt that this has affected the revenue for website owners negatively regardless of the size of the website. This could be damaging the web, especially for the smaller sites that receive less traffic. It's likely that we would see an increase in quality and variety of content across the web if it was more rewarding.
It's understandable that users don't want to be bombarded with ads or tracked across the web, but there should be a global list with acceptable and simple ads (banner or animation and a link) that should be enforced by all ad blockers and controlled by each add-on platform.
One might argue that AdBlock Plus implemented a list of "acceptable ads", but this is a bizarre scheme made to generate ridiculous amounts for their organization with the explanation that the fee is set due to the "significant effort" of maintaining the whitelist [2].
Do you think that ad blockers are reducing the quality of the web and should they be limited?
1: https://www.globalwebindex.com/reports/global-ad-blocking-behavior
2: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads-agreements