Adblockers

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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Pistonheads is the only one that I am aware of that does this.


I started using adblock when adverts starting becoming annoying by moving or making noises. I remember the days of MSN when I blocked the flash based advert at the bottom of the program by adding the domains they used into my hosts file.
 
MatsyLR said:
Just so you know, without the ad's there would be no youtube videos.
It's how they get paid to make the content....
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Most of them get paid from lots of different sources and are raking in huge salaries. No way am I going to watch an advert before the video, then watch the video which in a lot of cases is another glorified advert (SPONSER!).

I also take pleasure in letting people in the comments know about adblockers existence, so that they too can be liberated from annoying ads. It's amazing how many people don't even know you can block them.
 
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adblock plus is now more important than ever for me. i'm stuck using a 3G dongle which is ridiculously expensive. i don't want to waste a single byte on poxy ads. :p
 
marc2003 said:
adblock plus is now more important than ever for me. i'm stuck using a 3G dongle which is ridiculously expensive. i don't want to waste a single byte on poxy ads. :p
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I remember using one of those when the house was flooded. Bad speeds and even worse prices are the memories I have from that period. Feel for ya, bro.:(
 
With youtube it directly supports people who make the content, we all don't like ads but that is just the fact of life. Ad money supports people who make the videos that you watch and enjoy.

This is what people get at when they say adblocker is wrong, it essentially is on youtube tbh because you directly take money out of content creators pockets cause you cba to watch a 30 second Ad whilst they spend painstaking hours editing gathering content and creating the videos.
 
Let's stop talking about Adblockers. 95% of people probably don't know about them and they are the ones funding our ad-free viewing. I'd rather keep it out mainstream dsicussion.

CREATIVE!11 said:
With youtube it directly supports people who make the content, we all don't like ads but that is just the fact of life. Ad money supports people who make the videos that you watch and enjoy.

This is what people get at when they say adblocker is wrong, it essentially is on youtube tbh because you directly take money out of content creators pockets cause you cba to watch a 30 second Ad whilst they spend painstaking hours editing gathering content and creating the videos.
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Provide a paid subscription option then? It makes more sense for me to pay monthly for regular youtube channels I watch than sit through ads before every video.
 
CREATIVE!11 said:
With youtube it directly supports people who make the content, we all don't like ads but that is just the fact of life. Ad money supports people who make the videos that you watch and enjoy.

This is what people get at when they say adblocker is wrong, it essentially is on youtube tbh because you directly take money out of content creators pockets cause you cba to watch a 30 second Ad whilst they spend painstaking hours editing gathering content and creating the videos.
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They spent painstaking hours editing and getting content BEFORE ad revenue came along. There were just fewer of them because there was nothing in it other than enjoyment and community.
 
Sunbed said:
Provide a paid subscription option then? It makes more sense for me to pay monthly for regular youtube channels I watch than sit through ads before every video.
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Works for some content, but anything gaming related it's not allowed. The publishers, and developers that do allow content creation and monetisation explicitly state that you are not allowed to use a paywall, sell, or rent out the content.
Only advertisement monetisation is allowed.

There is patreon where people can donate money to their favourite creators, as an extra source of income.
 
I use Adblock but I only mind obtrusive adverts. If your advert is just chilling on the side of the page silently, then cool, I shall leave it there. If your advert covers half the page and follows when I scroll, or pops up over the video, or makes noises, I am gonna block that sited adverts.

I don't mind donating to sites I use often for their free content/service. I have reddit gold for example.
 
I use adblock but only block sites which use them obnoxiously, everything is unblocked be default. I don't really have any problem with banners etc.
 
Woden said:
I use Adblock but I only mind obtrusive adverts. If your advert is just chilling on the side of the page silently, then cool, I shall leave it there. If your advert covers half the page and follows when I scroll, or pops up over the video, or makes noises, I am gonna block that sited adverts.

I don't mind donating to sites I use often for their free content/service. I have reddit gold for example.
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Don't blockers just try to block ALL ads though? I know you can pick and choose but 'out the box' you don't see many ads do you? :confused:

I know I have never removed anything from being blocked.
 
I used Ad-block plus and noscript, but I allow non intrusive ads on certain sites. Youtube is however not one of them I like that to be ad-free and I'm sure google makes enough from their ad services to fund it without me being interrupted
 
Trifid said:
Pistonheads is the only one that I am aware of that does this.
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:confused:

I use an Adblocker and I signed up to Pistonheads just recently. I've had no problems accessing the forums?

In fact, I'm at work at the moment and viewing the forums through Chrome with Adblock installed and it's fine.
 
DannyDrama said:
This could have gone into the Internet forum but it will get more discussion here (maybe, and some of it might even be serious). :D

Talking to a friend, I have just realised that some people consider the use of adblockers etc. to be somehow wrong or immoral. I have never heard that viewpoint outside of people who obviously make ad money, so what gives? Surely people don't exist that LIKE being bombarded? :confused:

He says we shouldn't be taking away revenue, I'm saying they shouldn't be taking my time, bandwidth or attention. Maybe this isn't a new argument to the web but it's new to me and I don't really know how to argue my point.

My end goal is simply to watch BF4 game plays without watching an ad for fanny cream or whatever unrelated crap they want to shove at me.:rolleyes:
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Ask your friend if he fast forwards through the advert breaks while watching telly... If he does, he is a hypocrite!

BTW If you have Windows 8 use Hyper. Its brilliant for Youtube with no ads!
 
I'm somewhat biased due to earning quite well from ads but if I find a site useful or fun I'll disable adblocker.

As long as there's no popups, malware alerts or floating ads I'll leave it disabled for that site.

I know its great to have something for free but someone is spending time creating the content we use so to me it seems only fair to subsidize their server costs. If they earn more than needed good for them.
 
I use Ad block, you tube is pretty rough without it. I have no problem with people making a bit of money off their vids and have no issue with banner ads all over the place, but having them direct in the video before the one you want to watch? I don't think so.

I have nearly 345,000 views on my youtube videos which is probably not that much these days but when I got the message that my vids were eligable for revenue sharing I didn't activate it because it's a pain in the arse to the viewers who might not have AB.
If they somehow expanded you tube with a subscription premium with some of it going to the users I would be interested if they added stuff like decent live TV channels, I rarely watch any TV these days other than the news anyway.
 
Thinking about it, the biggest problem with youtube ads is when you get into the random 30-40 second videos. I absolutely will not watch 60 seconds of advert when the video I want to watch is less than half a second.

I can also think of at least one channel who gets paid a stupid amount and he still uploads videos from the same crappy looking, sub-HD hardware that he always has. That's the kind of channel I unsub pretty quick.
 
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