Adverts on websites

glenimp617

glenimp617

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I use pi-hole at home, and a chrome plugin at work. This morning I had to switch browsers for something I was working on, and forgot just how bad websites have become.

Just look at this mess. I'd be embarrassed if that was mine.

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Most free sites are as bad or worse.

So-called content sites like Buzzfeed etc can be upwards of 90% ads on the page. Worst offenders are the ones with "slideshows", article spread over multiple pages which take an age to load purely because of the ads, usually video ads.
 
413x said:
Do wonder what proportion of people don't use an ad blocker?

There are more and more sites charging (especially news outlets) but at what point do ads just not work?
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More and more people use ad-blockers, so they need to show more ads to those that remain, so more people use ad blockers, so they need to show more ads, so more people...

Google are changing the way that add-ins work in Chrome to try and stop ad-blockers from working so well. We'll see what effect that has.
 
Mr Jack said:
More and more people use ad-blockers, so they need to show more ads to those that remain, so more people use ad blockers, so they need to show more ads, so more people...

Google are changing the way that add-ins work in Chrome to try and stop ad-blockers from working so well. We'll see what effect that has.
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Happy to move to edge or Firefox (again) if Google do this. Kind of inevitable.

When 10pc of your user base use it that's one thing. But 90pc is another matter!
 
I can't browse the Daily Express at home, it won't even load due to add blockers or whatever. It just breaks the website as it tries to scrape mylife history in 2ms but 90% of it has loading icons when it fails. I miss the odd look in, for laughs.

Using Pi-hole DNS blocker on my NAS, docker as it runs 24/7 anyway.
 
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Semple said:
I'll admit that was my immediate thought too.

Hardly a surprise from Sky though! After hearing in the other thread that they're pushing ads paid for streaming programs.
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That was the main reason I setup pi-hole over the usual browser plugins. Those adverts before tv shows are annoying, especially when you pay a subscription.
 
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Those adverts before tv shows are annoying ...
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Hadn't considered blocking adds on the ItvX / All4 catchup sites (sky box catchup is very limited), but seems I can just block appropriate IP addresses on the virgin superhub.
 
I run Adblock on both PCs and all my iOS devices.

I don’t mind the ads on YT that can be skipped after 5 seconds on my iPad , but I was watching YT via my Freesat box and the amount of ads was horrific.
 
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