We use Ad Blocker Plus to protect our computer from hostile advertising sites/services that often push malware in their ads.
The way to deal with this is to place the ads as content in a site instead of using these annoying weblinks that stream crap to your computer and hog up all your bandwidth.
When linking to some news sites from Drudge or here I get a popup that won’t let me continue unless I whitelist their site. I do just the opposite and blacklist them as not worth the effort.
The way to deal with this is to place the ads as content in a site instead of using these annoying weblinks that stream crap to your computer and hog up all your bandwidth.<<<<<<
Yep! And if you’re going to make them blink and or jump off the page and all but leap off the monitor to claw my eyes out, then I’m going to either block you, OR not bother with your site, at all.
If you’re going to use banners that take up half my screen, and follow me downward as I read...I’m done with you.
The fact of the matter is that *I* don’t *Need* your ad. If I want any product at all, I know how to use a search engine to find it.
Aside from not being able to control the content I want, TV is so obnoxious with ads during programming that I don’t turn the TV on unless there’s a major disaster, a potential disaster (tornado etc). If I want to see a movie, I’ll purchase a video, or borrow one, or find one online (using ad blockers of course). 99% of so called tv entertainment is such poor quality that it’s not even worth the electricity to run it! And, I REFUSE to pay for cable, and even if I could, I would NOT subscribe to ‘premium’ movie channels unless they are ad free.
I don’t know about you all, but I didn’t go online to make someone else wealthy. If I was walking down the street and saw your sale sign in your store window, would I be violating something if I chose not to stop and read the sign, or go into the store? Well, I’m not obligated to deal with your internet trash, either!
If you’re a store, I might wander through, see what you have at what price and then walk out without purchasing a thing. Did I violate your electric bill or your heat bill for opening your door? NO.
If you force your sales person to hope all over the sidewalk with a sale sign for your product and I drive by, did I violate some obligation to stop and read your sign? No. The fact is, I’m probably NOT going to do business with you at all, ever because of the way you treat your employees during weather extremes. When you get in my face and all but demand I do business with you so YOU can score brownie points...Iwon’t. I’ll remember that and do my business elsewhere.
Because if you were doing a decent business, you wouldn’t have to resort to such tacky tactics in the first place. You’d be too busy! The fact that you aren’t tells me that your business isn’t very good. Same thing on line.
People don’t just go online to shop. I almost never, ever, shop online. My financial info is NOT in my pc or browser because I can’t trust what I can’t see to take what little I hardly even have. It isn’t going to happen.
Competition is good. If you have a real, physical business, make it worth your local’s customer’s while to give them the best, at the best possible price. You are too easy to replace. Your customer on the other hand, is difficult to replace. Treat them RIGHT.
Today, I went to Best Buy because my neighbor needed to go there and he asked me for a ride. I browsed, and I had a BLAST! I saw Super HD TV’s and was simply amazed at the detail. It was awesome! I felt like I was looking at the real scenary. I’m sold despite not having a dime. And I don’t even like TV!
I went all over the store looking at things on my wish-list..tried this and that...Ipads, Bose Computer speakers, dishwashers, Kitchen Aid Fridges with the drawer in the middle, small chest freezers, printers for the computer...I redid my whole house in my mind according to my wish list. As I browsed a few sales folks asked if I needed assistance. Sometimes that can be a PITA. Then one guy said to me, we don’t get any commission so we won’t pressure you to buy anything. We’re here to answer any questions you might have! I LIKED that! Good service, and the prices were awesome. Huge storewide sales if you’re into what they sell and intend to buy.
The difference...I went there on my own. I wasn’t pressured to go there, or pressured to buy anything so I had a fun window shopping experience. If and when I have a buck to spend, I’ll check back with them. They didn’t make any money from me today, but in the future, they are on my list of places to go if I have the money for the item I want. They made the sale, just not today.
sorry for the long windedness. It’s a touchy subject for me lol!
I changed from Ad Blocker Plus to “uBlock Origin” - lighter & faster by being a less memory hog vs ABP.
Saving.
Opera browser: “If you block ads, webpages will load faster and look cleaner.” Thank you, computer geniuses.
That's certainly one way to do it. The person(s) who figure out how to dynamically insert user preference based, secured ads into a secure HTML-5 Content Stream where it cannot be tampered with may become the next Internet billionaire.
That would involve re-writing content delivery engines (I think .....) to accomplish, but it's doable.
I kinda like your idea, I may incorporate it into mine. :-)