I've tried to avoid running an AdBlocker as websites need to pay for their hosting but i'm starting to get really annoyed at the ridiculous amount of 3rd party links that need to load before you can even scroll the webpage.
It's pretty obvious that a lot of websites don't care about user experience.
Just as an experiment, I tried running with no ad blocker for a while.
The result was an almost unusable internet.
So much crap, such a long time to load pages etc.
The sad thing is, like commercial TV, I agree with the premise of ad supported services. But there is such a thing as killing the Goose that laid golden eggs and, like commercial TV, Internet websites have managed to achieve this.
This
really is one of those situations where "Less is more".
When Ads were relatively unobtrusive, people would not use ad blockers, and on TV when ad breaks only lasted 2/3 minutes at a time and only comprised 10 Mins/programing hour or so (Like they did in the 60's/70's) People would watch them.
Nowadays ad-blockers are pretty much an internet must unless you have massive amounts of time and bandwidth to waste. And PVR's are a must for watching TV so that the interminable ad breaks can be FF'd through. (I have seen TV shows recently that run as low as 37Min/Hour with the rest being ads. No sane person is going to sit and watch through all that! It is a joy to watch the BBC sometimes though mostly I only watch the documentaries)
So, message for the day to both TV networks and web site designers.
LESS IS MORE YOU NUMPTIES!
