AdBlock on the Net

[gshase]

I just made a donation to AdBlock and installed it and I couldn't be happier. You tube is so much better now. Totally stops all of the pop up ads.

[Joe Bob]

I've been using it for a couple of years and I love it....but,....Fox news and few other detect it and do a popup asking for a white list. Some even refuse to show content.

So it's not all roses.

[drkshdw]

Been using it for years. When I first installed it, it was great. Now, too many sites now how to get around it and it only blocks certain ads. Those sites that whitelist aren't worth visiting anyway. I will NOT turn it off to view content that is available on 1000 other sites. Now if only they'd make something that would prevent videos from playing automatically in the background...

[legion]

Or websites have annoying popups that complain you are destroying their ad revenue. Then don't have ads that play louds videos or overlay the content.

Nothing pisses me off more than clicking on a new article, setting it aside for a little while, and suddenly having loud audio blare from a video that auto-starts five minutes after you load the article. It's too bad I'm not allowed to install AdBlock on my work computer.

Oh, and AdBlock is accepting money from advertisers now to whitelist their content. I think I run three adblockers on my home computer and one of them lets me add stuff myself.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by gshase

I just made a donation to AdBlock and installed it and I couldn't be happier. You tube is so much better now. Totally stops all of the pop up ads.

Just use Opera.

Ad blocking built in.

Works great.

[Holger]

Just think about that some sites NEED the income to operate.
I am running a large Scandinavian niche forum, we have so many users that we need to use dedicated servers, they are very expensive (10K Euro per year at a minimum). No money, no service. So we sell ad-space (no popups!). The advertisers want to see stats. Blocked ads, no stats, no money.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I would much rather see the industry adopt a pay-for-content model similar to what’s happening with television. An ad-based model subjects the end user to a bunch of garbage they’re likely not interested in and can often have nothing to do with (the opposite of!) what the site they’re trying to access is all about, whereas a pay-for-content model rewards the content provider for providing the desired content and provides a direct indicator of how much something is valued. It’s those pesky free market laws... If there’s demand for something, people will pay for it. If not, they won’t. There’s simply no getting around it and I’m not convinced advertising works at all - I can’t think of a time I’ve chosen peoduct “x” over product “y” because some marketing schlocker gave me a sales pitch. If anything, they tend to elicit a passive-aggressive response and turn me off to their products for annoying me. If there isn’t enough demand to support something directly, perhaps it should be allowed to wither and die.

[stomachmonkey]

I will regularly unblock a site if it asks and I am interested in the content.

I find that those sites also pay attention to what ads they allow and have thought out their page layout so that ads are well placed but not intrusive. Everyone wins.

It's the sites who allow advertisers to run rough shod with full page blocking pop ups that continue lead to infinite looping series of pop ups, virtual cock blockers if you will, that are ruining it for everyone.

[id10t]

It is the crappy low end ad networks slow servers and virus ridden crap that makes me block ads.

And, at home, I do it on the network level, so I don't see 'em on any of my devices.

[flipper35]

I use uBlock Origin.