Adblockers

Can I just ask; what do you believe to be intrusive adverts? Do you mean any of them or just pop-ups/unders and autoplay adverts?

If that's the case then ill happily agree it deserves to be blocked. If were talking banner ads that don't do anything until you interact with them then why is it an issue?

If you enjoy using a website why donate when ads are capable of supporting it for free?

For example if this forum wasn't a commercial forum it wouldn't exist. I imagine the bills to keep this place open is quite substantial. If ocuk didn't have a shop they'd have to display ads of some form to pay the bills or charge for access.
 
I cant understand why Adblock is supposed to work with Chrome but when Chrome is restarted say several days later Adblock has vanished!
 
I don't have a problem with banner ads, I hate ads that "brand" a website where it has two tower ads that blend into a banner ad as well as regular banner/square/tower adverts, flash ads, ads that play sound, pop overs and unders, ads that turn text into random links that take it out of context and link to something random, unskippable video adverts.

Donating to Giantbomb removes adverts as well as giving you subscriber only content.

I don't mean to be blunt but if this forum didn't exist I would go to one of the hundreds if not thousands that do. I hate when people use the old "if you don't support them and don't see the ads then it would go away" excuse.

I said once and I will say again, if you rely on massive adverts plastered all over the site then its up to you to find other means to support it, if your content is worth paying for then people will pay to view it.

Internet ad money doesn't get you as much as it used to and it wont last forever, what are you/sites going to do once that money dissappears?
 
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Until recently I just sucked up the YouTube ads as I was trying to support them in my own small way. Since ads have become 30 secs or more and even in the middle of longer vids, I've installed AdBlock. Too much for me to tolerate.
 
I completely agree with your first point an awful lot of sites are going way too far. I block those ads as well.

It's not really an excuse more of a fact. No money equals no website(there's a few free versions out there I guess). I agree there are other ways of gaining revenue but I'm not a huge fan of asking for money directly as such I show adverts. My website isn't near as big as this place but still costs me £400 a year to host. Its a lot of money that I wouldn't pay out of my own pocket. There's enough users I could probably cover the costs with donation/subscription model but it doesn't feel right to ask for money to me.

As to the point of what I would do should it disappear I honestly don't know but the ads have paid out enough to last the next 10 years.(site will be dead before that).

Each to their own I guess :).
 
Don't get me wrong, I don't just blanket block ads across the internet. If there is a site I enjoy I will whitelist it and see what the ad situation is. If they are regular banner ads then fair enough.

The sites that have donation options I will donate to.

I just don't appreciate it when sites/admins tell me that I should unblock the ads to cover their costs or they will dissappear. I especially hate the ones that either block you from viewing or have supplemental pop ups or ons the site that obscure the content telling me to unblock or else.
 
TheLegendOfMart said:
Don't get me wrong, I don't just blanket block ads across the internet. If there is a site I enjoy I will whitelist it and see what the ad situation is. If they are regular banner ads then fair enough.

The sites that have donation options I will donate to.

I just don't appreciate it when sites/admins tell me that I should unblock the ads to cover their costs or they will dissappear. I especially hate the ones that either block you from viewing or have supplemental pop ups or ons the site that obscure the content telling me to unblock or else.
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Exactly the same as I feel. If I use a site and enjoy it/find it useful ill disable Adblock.

My biggest gripe is with sites that block access for Adblock users. Its pure greed at that point. I logged Adblock users on my site and they only account for 20% of users. Its a fair amount of money lost but I'm not running it as a business as long as I make enough to cover the server then I'm more than happy with that.
 
I use an Adblocker, but unblock sites if they ask me to, and I like the site/want it to get ad revenue, e.g AnandTech, Skyrim Nexus etc.
 
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I've whitelisted sites that I frequent and channels that I've subscribed to. Don't plan on giving ad revenue to people who make one videos hoping for a viral hit, but porn sites (mostly watch that through Bing videos anyhow) ad block is always on.
 
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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yet youtube existed without adds for years and content still got made..

arguably it was better content because they weren't doing it for any incentive
 
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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Hardly, most people don't make significant revenue from youtube, they aren't doing it for the money...

Only the people with 100,000+ views per week are making money.

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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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Absurd statement, not watching an advert that indirectly generates revenue is not the same as "directly" taking money from someone, that would be theft.
 
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I don't have any issue with normal banner ads but 30 sec or longer ads on videos are a joke.
 
People use Adblockers because people can get away with using Adblockers, and in general people would like to have everything given to them for free and for quality content to continue being produced without the means to support itself. It's okay though, 'someone else' will load the ads, drive the impressions and the engagements, and subsidise the thousands of popular everyday websites which rely on advertising to keep them running.
 
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