Blocking ads – have your cake and eat it too?

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Many times I bump into some blog and even before having a glance at the article, I am presented with about 5-6 pop-up ads! After either closing or ignoring those, I start reading that article and at the same time, those square ad banners placed above, and below, and on both sides of the first paragraph start flashing with an exciting message on it as “you have won $50000″! I try hard to ignore it (though it continues flashing through my eye corners). And then suddenly voilà! The whole article disappears and another cool graphics turns up full screen with a polite message on top corner “Skip this ad to return to the article”. By the time, done with all this exercise; I am no longer in a mood to continue reading.

It is said that web 2.0 is about “wisdom of crowd” but is it really perceived in that sense by the crowd after all? All these new web technologies have made it a lot easier to launch a website stuffed with abundant of cool features — and that too without dropping a penny out of pocket! But is it all really helping to create informative web resources than mere duplications? Today we find tons of websites (yes, including blogs) revolving around same topics and even filled up with same content (generated using someone else’s rss feed). And what’s the motivation behind creating such websites? Well, conspicuously, it’s just about milking the gorgeous Google Adsense cow than anything else.

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