Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette
plz1@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoAd companies are getting butt-hurt because the pages you are referencing are being seen even less, due to AI scraping by search engines. So now they are going after:
- The consumer using an ad blocker. Last amount of protections/rights, easiest target to vilify.
- The search engines, for stealing content views where ads would be placed
- The publishers for allowing users that use ad blockers.