[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.

[TomGuy]

It does not help that many websites are converting to ‘mobile friendly’ and have horrible scripting. On many of them, menues and links do not work.

Some have pop-ups that cover much of the screen and the X to close it is unreachable.

Luckily, with the Web, there are always alternative websites.

[jeannineinsd]

I completely agree with you. I also don’t mind non-intrusive ads. I do mind ads that hide the text I am reading, or worse, crash my browser (I mean you Daily Caller and Lucianne).

I installed AdBlockerPlus after reading about it here on FreeRepublic. It has very much improved the experience of surfing the web.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I like how I get a bunch of ads for stuff I already looked at on the web.

If I didn't buy it the first time, your ads aren't gonna make me buy it now.