
Originally Posted by
TimeBomb
You're 100% in the right to do whatever you want and attempt to block AdBlock users from using your site. Here's one argument against doing so, though:
Scenario A:
I'm an ad-block user. I want to use your site. I go to your site, and get told not to use ad blocker. I have no attachment to your site, I only just heard about it. Why would I disable this extension for your site?
The extension that I use everywhere, this extension that lessens the annoyances and lessens my exposure to malware as I surf the web? I leave the site without ever going back to it.
Scenario B:
I'm an ad-block user. I want to use your site. I go to your site and use its functionality and have a good experience. I tell people about your site. Some of them are not ad-block users. Maybe I even use it on mobile, where I don't have an adblocker.
With Scenario A, you have lost one ad-block user. Who cares about them, right?
But with Scenario B, you have gained an ad-block user, but you have also gained more users due to that one happy ad-block user sharing your website. This means you also get ad views and potentially $$ from the new users that don't have ad block. You also get even more opportunities for more users to invite people to your site. Giving you more opportunity to get $$. Virality at its best, my friend.
If it were me, then unless I calculated that losing an ad-block user and their potential virality is worth saving us the bandwidth and processing fees to accommodate that otherwise potentially "freeloading" user, I would allow ad-block users to my site.
Either way, cool site. Best of luck with it :).