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Mobile sites are the absolute worst, I'd almost say that Android's Chrome mobile browser is next to useless now. Every large name site I go to brings it to a crawl, destroys battery life.
I'll keep using an adblock service, or restrictive browser forever, until sites wise up... I honestly don't have an issue with "normal" adverts, even animated. Just don't have 12 of them, with one full screen pop-up.

I'm happy to whitelist sites, although I frequenty just forget to unless I see the "we notice you are..." page.
YouTube I used to always keep it on, but it has fully replaced TV for me and I believe I should pay for the content I watch (those 3 minute single adverts are annoying though).
 
Is there a good solution for mobile? I have tried the android adblock browser and it is not great. Sick of all these adverts slowing things down making me accidentally click when just trying to read stuff. If google really cared about user experience they would ban their own adverts!
 
DiscoDave said:
If the whole entire advert/popup ecosystem wasn't so plagued with viruses/malware and generally shady practices then we wouldn't need to use things like adblocker. Admittedly it has got a lot better in recent years but it is what it is.
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Which is why I use security software that blocks potentially harmful ads (i.e. nearly all of them) as a side-effect.

When a single page runs scripts from dozens of sites, which is normal now, it's only a matter of time before one of them is serving malware. It doesn't matter how trustworthy the site you're visiting is - they don't control the ads displayed there and in any case being trustworthy doesn't mean having perfect security.

I will accept being advertised at to some degree as payment for something. I won't accept the significant risk of being served malware as well. I don't know what a sustainable solution would be, because the current setup isn't one.
 
IronWarrior said:
I'm more fed up with the fragging cookie warning that websites have.

I'm still trying to find something to block that.
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That's a requirement imposed on websites, though, so it's not their fault. The wording they use is often annoying (no, it's not for my benefit to be tracked all over the place to create data that can be sold to advertisers) but some warning message is a legal requirement.
 
v0n said:
[..] Running video channel? Start you daily moan with "And a special shout goes to our sponsor of the day - Associated Clickbytes - visit link below this video for the extra dose of bull**** if you already purged your spam folder this morning". There. See? 40 seconds in, and I've already doubled your revenue. Now GTFO before I blacklist your four letters. Donkeyhole.
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Most of the best Youtube channels I watch regularly do this, although not quite in the tone you suggest :) They do it in a way that matches the style of the channel and isn't annoying. Lindybeige mentions his sponsor twice within a video including a full advert for 2 or 3 minutes and it's not annoying because he has sponsors that are relevant to the videos he makes. Asynchrony put them only at the end of their videos as a seperate piece and people still watch them because they're very well done in the same style as the videos. Etc. Major NSFW warning on Asychrony, by the way. They make machinama with the central character being a drug-addled raider from Fallout 4 whose favoured outfit is a gimp mask made from a sack. Just a gimp mask. Nothing else. At least not until he found a blood-stained Japanese schoolgirl's uniform. He narrates the sponsor adverts in his own...special...style.
 
Spook187 said:
If the website blocks me from using it because i have ad blocker on i just go elsewhere, greedy websites trying coin it in.
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You need Greasemonkey! Scripting mod for Firefox/Chrome (IE users can gtfo)

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Pixel said:
I don't like the whole "We deserve to get paid" attitude towards websites and videos these days.
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AVForums is one of the worst for it. They no longer allow you to use the classifieds section, or even veiw an imbedded picture in the forums if you have an ad blocker.
 
stopper said:
AVForums is one of the worst for it. They no longer allow you to use the classifieds section, or even veiw an imbedded picture in the forums if you have an ad blocker.
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Log out, turn it off, log back in and turn it back on again.
 
Kuros said:
I don't see the problem, myself.
Adblock plus was useful while it lasts, but at the same point it is reducing revenue streams for websites. Less revenue means they need to put on more adverts for those that don't run adblock.

Can't really blame website owners for trying to do what they can to maintain income, unless you want certain websites to go under.
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The ones that try to use adverts to generate income should go under any way.

To be fair they are making a lot more money than they should! I hate adverts so as soon as a website comes up with a warning that detect an ad blocker I just close the page and never go back to it.
 
Gigabit said:
The cookie notifications annoy me as well. The most pointless piece of legislation I can think of.
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I didn't install them on any of my websites. Decided to waiting for the International Internet Police to pay me a visit and issue me with a fine for not displaying cookie banners.
 
The internet seems to have gone crazy with adverts in the last year, getting really annoying as every page just seems to be full of click-bate or adverts. Unfortunately they seem to be able to detect ad-blockers now but I'm giving Ublock a try and have set it to disable the adblocker warning pop-ups, seems to be working better than Adblock Plus.
 
I haven't really had many problems with it, if I can't use that site I go elsewhere.

What I really really love however is my taboola blocker. No more 'you'll never guess what she wore to the party!!!111111'. Doesn't block genuine links either.
 
I used to watch a lot of videos on the sky sports app and then all of a sudden 30 second ads started coming in to watch videos 1-2 minutes long. Suffice to say i dont watch any videos anymore on the sky sports app any more.

The youtube way of being able to skip after 5 seconds is the most fair way of using ads but some websites just take the **** so i dont feel any guild for blocking out their rubbish
 
Brenn47 said:
The internet seems to have gone crazy with adverts in the last year, getting really annoying as every page just seems to be full of click-bate or adverts. Unfortunately they seem to be able to detect ad-blockers now but I'm giving Ublock a try and have set it to disable the adblocker warning pop-ups, seems to be working better than Adblock Plus.
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I guess eventually it'll move on to adblockers that virtually render the page then only show you what you want to defeat the detection.

I suspect somewhat the spam of it is due to the reduced money coming from ads due to the proliferation and more people monetising stuff - I've noticed a fair few people on Youtube lately who used to just have say 1 ad at the start and maybe another at the end now have like 2 ad breaks in the middle of the video as well which gets a bit silly.
 
Ad breaks in the middle of youtube vids, that's just taking the pee!

I see why it's gone crazy though, read about a month ago that some site, can't remember which, was making $10,000 a month from ad revenue. Not bad for free money if you flood the web with click-bate. :/
 
Brenn47 said:
Ad breaks in the middle of youtube vids, that's just taking the pee!

I see why it's gone crazy though, read about a month ago that some site, can't remember which, was making $10,000 a month from ad revenue. Not bad for free money if you flood the web with click-bate. :/
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