Adblockers

I use adblockers however in spite of that I don't pay attention to them anyway. I haven't clicked on one or every felt an urge to follow the advert in the first place.

I don't think it is immoral - it's like chucking away the flyers in a newspaper without reading them. Or putting mute on when the adverts come on the radio, or flicking the channel on the television when an advert comes on.

I've always been on the mindset of, if I want a particular service or type of shop, I will look for it I don't want it to be in front of me all the time when I'm just not interested.
 
Yeah, I've never trusted the content of ads on random websites. Clicking on random links is a no-no, I'm not going to do it just because look, free viagra!

And that's exactly how I see it, Freefaller. Although hats off to whoever figured out how to make money by making people with no vagina watch adverts about sanitary towels. Mans a genius, albeit an evil one.
 
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I don't even know what some websites look like, with ads, that's how long I've run an adblocker :o
 
I don't get how anyone can argue that adblocking is killing revenue... Just because I've been made to watch an advert doesn't mean they're gonna get a penny out of me. Quite the opposite in fact.
 
asim18 said:
That's not how it works. YouTube doesn't pay people to make content. They merely give you a share of the ad revenue on a video you've already made.
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Not sure if serious? :confused:

On topic, can't see how it's immoral... if they didn't make the ads so obtrusive in the first place, maybe people wouldn't block them?

I use ABP, I wouldn't have bothered, but I got fed up with being forced to watch the same 40 second unskippable advert every 5 minutes on youtube.

I don't mind funny ads too much. It's not going to make me buy their product, but at least they're mildly entertaining. That doesn't mean I want to see the same one over and over again!
 
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id watch a lot of gaming vids, partly youtube and partly the groups own site.

keep adblock on for youtube (because they havent got the hang of subtle ads) but its disabled on their own site for the sake of getting then a few pennies.

tbh though can the ad companies even tell if your adblocking? I dont have a problem with internet advertising provided its not trying to give hax and its subtle enough to ignore
 
Depends on the website for me.

If I'm on a website that I know well, or watching a friend's livestream/youtube and he runs a few ads here and there I'll turn it off just to support. Generally though my Adblock is on. I'm tired of popups being thrown in my face when I'm trying to work or look for something. Imagine if you had to press a button on your TV to get rid of every single advert, lol. Particularly when you're never sure if the advert is actually safe or if it's keylogger infested.
 
If there was a way to keep ads disabled in general, but enable them based on specific circumstances, such as a select number of YouTube channels or Twitch streams, then I would be happy to have the odd ad to support my favourites (as there is a bit of revenue for an ad view)

However - as there is not an option to do that (as far as I'm aware) - then they're staying blocked for everything.
 
I'm a member of another forum which I'm sure many others here will be aware of (if I were to mention its name) and they actively discourage the use of adblockers. In fact, it was one of the reasons I stopped going there when they started restricting access to members that use such add-ons.

So I guess I'm the sort of visitor they don't want and they'd prefer I wasn't using their bandwidth.
 
BadMojo said:
I'm a member of another forum which I'm sure many others here will be aware of (if I were to mention its name) and they actively discourage the use of adblockers. In fact, it was one of the reasons I stopped going there when they started restricting access to members that use such add-ons.

So I guess I'm the sort of visitor they don't want and they'd prefer I wasn't using their bandwidth.
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AVForums?
 
I find it offensive that adverts track my browsing - despite not being allowed too in some cases - and serve up adverts that might interest me, so I block them on that premise for starters.

That and I hate adverts.
 
It's not even that ads are annoying that gets me, it's that often normally safe websites have infected people's PC's due to malicious ads, if the ads were 100% safe and controlled I'd have less need to block them, but I'm not risking my computer's security, so they all get blocked.
 
I only disable my adblock for a few small webcomic sites. I want those guys to have ad revenue and their ads aren't all in my face, so what the hell. Everyone else can bugger off with their ads. Especially youtube and any site that prevents me from accessing the content until I have seen their ad. That irks me to no end.
 
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