Go ahead and block me. Let me know how that business plan works for you. I don’t have to visit your site.
Ad blockers ought to be outlawed. There’s just too much freedom going on out there on the internet and it’s not good for people.
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. These advertisers using annoying, intrusive and even distruptive techniques under the misguided belief that they’re growing their business had better think about the negative reaction building to their practices and consider the damage they’re doing to themselves by continuing to do this. There’s a reason telemarketers are reviled and there’s a reason certain direct mail marketers are disliked. They’re headed in the very same direction for the very same reason. Make your ads and your offers compelling. Make people want to click because you’ve got something that they want. Pique interest. Don’t fake them into clicking accidentally because your stupid banner is timed to jump up over the “next” arrow on the web page when the viewer moves their cursor toward it.
A local club has a new web site. I picked a page from it at random. It had three sentences of actual information totalling 850 bytes. The size of the page downloaded was 1.25 MEGA-bytes. 1/3 megabyte of this was pointless and potentially malicious JavaScript (which was blocked by my NoScript add-on). Another 850 kilobytes was css formatting crap--the main visible effect of which was to hard-code the font size to something I didn't want. With the possible exception of "journalist", I cannot think of any (legal) occupations I hold in lower esteem than that of "website developer."
Visit these two websites. One time with adblock. One time without.
Hotair.com
Breitbart.com
They are horrible. Our local news website has 2 or 3 autoplay videos that pop up and mousetrap video popups. There is a reason people use adblock. Web designers and advertisers have made their websites so chaotic you can’t get the information you want.
How many sites have we all been to when you move your mouse curser to the top of the page a popup appears?! Or an ad floats across the page?!
How many blinking ads?! How many redirects to another page?!
How many videos that start automatically?!
See http://www.lucianne.com for overuse of ads. I started using adblocker when I use to go there.
Without adblocker the Briebart http://www.breitbart.com site would be of no use, same for Star & Tribune http://www.startribune.com
There are site where you cannot even scroll down the page because they have so many trackers loading and videos playing the the web browser cannot handle it.
You cannot fix stupid web page creators so you have to use products like adblocker plus.
The Internet wasn’t created as a money making venture.
Slapping ads on your site and expecting the world to conform to your money making endeavors is odd. You can do it, but don’t whine if it doesn’t go your way.
These fools don’t realize one of the factors millions stopped watching TV and moved to the Internet, was due to being inundated in lousy leftist slanted commercials.
When the ad companies start paying for my bandwidth (and cell data plan), then I’ll start feeling badly about blocking their malware-infested, needlessly distracting, irrelevant (to me) ads.
I buy plenty online and the only affect ads have had on my purchasing is I will purposely not buy from a company that spams me with crap ads. I’ve actually paid more to buy from a competitor.
I use Ad Blocker Plus, and many times, when I click on a thread link provided as the source for the story, I get a notice to turn my Ad Blocker off. If they don’t want me to read their story, so be it because I refuse to turn it off.
After visiting Breitbart, I started using ad blockers. Otherwise, the site was unreadable.
If I couldn’t block the ads, I wouldn’t read the website at all.
Companies that saw advertising as a revenue vehicle are ruining the economy and the Internet. All they do is add to a massively loud noise on the Internet. No one is making money on their advertisements, only on showing advertisements. Everyone getting thousands of adds per day is not causing them to go buy thousands of products. It becomes nothing but noise.
I abhor suggestive selling.
The advertisers and websites have done this to themselves. I’m not going to wait for a bunch of ads to load before I see what I’ve clicked on.
Either get faster ad servers, or weave the ad text into the page. I have fiber to the house, so the slow speeds aren’t at my end.
I started by just blocking the flash players that launched automatically (noScript), but have expanded to AdBlockPlus for Firefox, or just the standard install of Brave.
It’s like the Cable networks that have popup ads during the show. A few of those, and that channel is history for me.
It’s hard to believe how stupid the media giants are when it comes to advertising. It must be the drugs.
I don't have much sympathy for probably 95% of the advertisers. Most of what they advertise is either generally crap or even downright harmful.
As ad producers can’t be trusted either with internet security or with respecting reasonable limits, ad blockers are a necessary self-defense mechanism.
This reminds me, I need to get a Raspberry Pi and implement a Pi Hole. Basically a network appliance to kill ads on your entire network.
PI-HOLE: A BLACK HOLE FOR INTERNET ADVERTISEMENTS
https://pi-hole.net
Block Over 100,000 Ad-serving Domains
Known ad-serving domains are pulled from third party sources and compiled into one list.
Block Advertisements On Any Device
Network-level blocking allows any device to block ads, regardless of hardware or OS.
Improve Overall Network Performance
Since ads are blocked before they are downloaded, your network will perform better.
Reduce Cellular Data Usage
Pair your Pi-hole with a VPN for on-the-go ad-blocking and save on data costs.
Monitor Performance And Statistics
The Web interface shows how many ads were blocked, a query log, and more.
Bkmrk
They should quit making the ads so annoying. I’m not the problem here, talk to the advertisers.