[hiho hiho]

"Clearly, Eyeo's primary aim is to get its hands on a share of the advertising revenues."

[r_barton]

People using ad blockers is really a consumer boycott of crappy, annoying, take-over ads. We are tired of putting up with it. I wouldn’t block quality, but I refuse to be a target of spammy garbage.

[ShadowAce]

[r_barton]

Switch to UBLOCK ORIGIN. It works much better as an ad blocker.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I’m perfectly willing to tolerate ads on a website. I’m not willing to tolerate auto-playing videos with sound.

[Azeem]

Make a deal, face the wheel.

And all my wheel slots say, “Will find another open source ad blocker that didn’t sell us out.”

[PAR35]

I was late to AdBlock. I used Noscipt and a 3rd party popup blocker to block some of the more intrusive ads. I finally gave in and added AdBlock because of the intrusive spy cookies in even the simplest ads. I understand the need for ad revenue to support the internet, but until they go with clean, static ads, I’ll just opt out.

[IronJack]

In other words, AdBlock will charge advertisers for access to YOUR machine.

That's awful nice of them.

[oh8eleven]

"... acceptable" level and form of advertising on the net.
The only acceptable level is zero. I'm so sick of commercials on TV - and pop ups on the PC, I'm thiiiiiis close to canceling all of it.

[RC one]

[montag813]

AdBlock’s creators deserve to reap BILLIONS from any deal.

[Rebelbase]

It’s astounding that there are still FReepers who complain about popups and ads on linked articles.

[pa_dweller]

nearly $22 billion in revenues were lost globally last year as a result of ad-blocking software

I'd estimate $10 billion of that was lost by toupee sellers due to fewer people having to tear their hair out from dealing with all the ads.

[FunkyZero]

The ads never bothered me until they started scripting entire screen hijacks that pop up and gray out/disable the entire screen. The video ads that force you to watch a 30 second ad before a 15 second news clip are also over the top. That’s when I started using adblock and element hider. Sidebar ads don’t bug me at all... had they kept it clean, this wouldn’t be a problem. It’ll be a sad day if they start taking bribes from advertisers. Hopefully someone else will step in and fill the void if it goes there.

[JimRed]

Most ads are blocked on my PC; when the few that pop up come on I just close them. One time in a dozen will I even read beyond the headline to see what they’re selling.

[for-q-clinton]

I’m using mvps.org.

It uses host files to block ads. It works great and it works across all browsers.

[GeronL]

They are worried that a browser being developed, BRAVE, will steal their thunder.