{"id":27,"date":"2016-03-03T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2016-03-03T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:29:25","slug":"the-problem-with-ad-blocker-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/the-problem-with-ad-blocker-software\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with Ad-blocker software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, we are quite happy to watch free content. Oh no, a little overlaid image comes up showing us an image for a new perfume, job site or some new car offered to us by various companies. Or maybe we\u2019re distracted by an advert for 20 seconds while we wait for our program to start.<br \/>\nThis is how the free content platforms make their money. They show us adverts and then they get revenue. If we all start using ad-blockers then the companies like youtube will lose revenue as the ROI on the advertising campaigns will be a longer period of time or lower monetary value.<br \/>\nThis is the problem, if Youtube and other video sites didn\u2019t have that income the free content we take for granted now will dry up, disappear, shrink and we\u2019ll need to start paying for content. Or they\u2019ll invent a new way of putting adverts into the content we watch.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t use ad-blocker software as I do see an advert that is useful from time to time. But I do believe we should just watch them and as long as they don\u2019t become to overbearing then it\u2019s OK.<br \/>\nI do like 4OD now and again, but I do find the adverts on there to be a little too long.<br \/>\nSo, don\u2019t use ad-blocker software, unless you really are the impatient type who can\u2019t wait 5 seconds to skip to the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we are quite happy to watch free content. Oh no, a little overlaid image comes up showing us an image for a new perfume, job site or some new car offered to us by various companies. Or maybe we\u2019re&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/the-problem-with-ad-blocker-software\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[10,12,8,11,13,14,15,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}