[Flavious_Maximus]

Bandwidth cost money. Why should I pay for ads when I go to a website? Every time these ads are automatically downloaded to your browser it is costing YOU money. And they got the NERVE to say it is costing THEM money!

[SamAdams76]

I do not mind tasteful and non-intrusive ads on a webpage. When I am reading a magazine or newspaper, the ads never bothered me and I actually looked at a good amount of them. The Drudge Report was a good example of proper web advertising.

I never would have installed an ad-blocker had most websites adopted that practice.

But the web ads got too obnoxious. I got sick of a pop-up ad covering the text of what I was trying to read and then having to find the hidden "X" to close it. Sometimes I could never figure out how to close an ad and I'd have to leave the website and move on.

In that, AdBlock was a godsend. As soon as I installed it, I was surfing the web again like it was 1997 with a cable modem. Everything nice and clean and fast.