Perhaps if advertising wasn't so obnoxious then people wouldn't feel so compelled to block it.
Exactly. I have started avoiding some webpages like breitbart. It’s 90% ads and 10% what I wanted to read in the first place.
My computer got so bogged down with ad tracker apps that it took forever to load some pages. I finally searched MS and found out how to disable ad-tracking and you wouldn’t believe how fast those former slow loaders now load. Drudge had something like 23-24 services loading crap.
Heck, I even get a report of 2 trying to load here.
Calling for the Waahmbulance
Well they actually didn’t lose it, they just didn’t receive it. No business would rely on ‘expected ‘revenue’ to fund themselves.
Advertising careers must attract the least intelligent people on the planet.
If it isn’t junk mail, it’s annoying telemarketing phone calls and now obnoxious flashing, floating and pop-up ads. Every time people say they don’t want the junk that advertising companies put out, they find another way to innundate us with what we don’t want.
I’ve been using ad blocking software for years. It makes the web much faster and more usable.
I understand the funding necessary for webpages, television stations, etc. Advertising supported pages aren’t the problem, it’s the way in which the ads are implemented.
Netflix streaming seems to be doing alright with their no-commericals and reasonable price.
Hulu just started offering a no-commercials (mostly) level of service. It will be interesting to see how they are doing in a year or so.
CBS is offering a subscription service to all of their old and current content. [I do not know whether it has commercials.]
My problem with the streaming video that has inserted advertisment breaks is that most I have tried stall out about 1/2 to 3/4 way through the program/movie. Then, trying to restart and get back to that segment of the program/movie requires sitting through numerous additonal commercials.
In the 60s, cable was advertised as the commercial-free alternative to broadcast TV. THEY LIED. I would rather record and skip through the commercials. Having 38-42 minutes of content and 18-22 minutes of commercials just does not make for a pleasant viewing experience — especially when the same commercials are repeated ad nauseum.
Online ads take bandwidth. In limited bandwidth situations, that steals money from the consumer. This is much the same as spam faxes.
Spam faxes are illegal.
Further, this is the media complaining that their customers aren’t cooperating in their revenue schemes. Much like consumers are not buying their printed bullstuff.
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!
They failed, or refused, to police their industry. At times my computer has been inundated with malware that comes directly from them. Boohoo now that they are reaping the whirlwind and going broke!
My eyes are my own and my computers are personal.
Every marketing bimbo thinks shoving ads into people’s faces is what “everyone does!”, so they do it too.
No original thought in the marketing industry. None.
They think annoying their customers is they way to get money from them. The advertising sales bimbos claim all kinds of numbers like, “10 million people per month will see your ad! Isn’t that awesome!”
What they don’t say is, “We jam 10 millions ads out there every month and no one reads them, half are blocked, and it just pisses the reader off who will come to hate your company and products, but pay us $1 million to do that, mmmkay?”
I only want an ad blocker that still allows me to see ads with mixed-raced couples and white guys watching sports with black friends.
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Self-destructing cookies [firefox only, sorry].
Both programs free--forever.
I hate takeover ads. One of the best new ad blockers is UBLOCK ORIGIN. It also allows you to push a button and turn it off on sites you like and want to get the ad revenue.
If unblocking the ads would gain our military two aircraft carriers, I’d do it. But the most this would gain is jobs for 250,000 liberal reporters ranting against our military and weakening our economy and social values.
Without ad-blocking, some sites are positively inaccessible, so the advertisers are wasting their money after all, whether their ads are blocked or not. This is especially so with platforms such as Kindle, that don’t have the capacity to display most of the active content on a typical website.
If you watch a hockey game on TV you can see the boards covered with advertising, yet because it’s static you take it in without being unduly annoyed; you hardly notice it, but the message is still there, and you’re taking it in as you watch the action on the ice. Imagine if they rigged things so those ads would jump out at you; covering your screen and making it impossible to watch the game!
Who actually clicks on the ads?
A lot of these obnoxious ads have been infected with malware and have infected people’s computers that visit those sites. One way I fight this, besides an ad blocker, is to not use Flash. Flash always seems to have new vulnerabilities discovered. Don’t use Flash if you don’t have to. That will also stop a lot of ads.