What do you think about ads and ad-blockers?

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I don't use an adblocker, but I also never pay attention to ads.

I hate ads. I have no whitelisted domains. Ads (and awful programming) are the main reason I've not watched TV in like 10 years.

I would rather sit there starting at blank monitors at work, than browse the internet due to ads.

It's my choice to block ads, especially on YouTube, Facebook and AOL as those are the most annoying sites for them. I'm sure they (whoever they are) aren't suffering to pay their bills as they face fuck everyone who allows ads (and there is a bunch of them) daily. My computer runs better too without ads, as they slow down my computer to the point where the internet either crashes on me or runs like a turtle. I prefer no ads, so end of story. I don't mean to sound like I don't care, but ads (especially the video and automated ads) really annoy the hell out of me... and I want to be online without any problems.

I whitelist sites that I frequent. Most sites just have dumb banner ads that aren't too intrusive. I've been considering whitelisting YouTube for a while, but fucking video ads are the worst; why do you think I don't watch TV?

im pretty sure i see this thread every single week

Never used an ad blocker. I just use Chrome with Javascript disabled by default and enable it for sites I respect and/or trust. It has an inadvertent effect of killing annoying ads on sites I don't care enough about to enable.

I don't like my attention being hijacked by people who want me to buy things!!!!!!! I close my eyes as soon as I see anything that even resembles an ad and then move my mouse to the upper right and hope I have hit the X button. Sometimes when I open my eyes the site is still there and the ad has progressed to showing me even more things I don't want. That's when I get really mad and punch my desk.

But I will tell you what is even worse than ads, those dangnarn Facebook boxes with all those happy faces!!!!! Why is everyone so happy? Why does everyone have such a perfect dainty little life that they have no qualms about sharing?? That really grinds my gears. Have some life shame!

@ii_spadex_ii said:

Use the search function.

I only recently started using AdBlock. I didn't mind watching a couple of ads there and there, but not too long ago, it started getting insane. I'd get loops of the same infuriatingly-bad ads, especially on GameTrailers. I'd be listening my playlist of music on youtube, and then in the middle of two songs, I'd get a 3 minute ad of a random pop song I've never heard or wanted to listen to, forcing my to get back to my computer in order to skip it. This would happen every three or four songs.

AdBlock was the way to go for me from then.

I don't use it and I don't care about it. Why? Because I'm not the type of person that lets advertisements on a site throw me in a fucking tizzy.

I'm in favour of Adblock.

I don't care about what the new Colgate toothpaste tastes like or how many french fries McDonalds can cram into a cardboard sleeve. I'd rather stare at a blank screen than watch another trailer for Riddick Does Dallas on IGN 2.0.

Advertising is coming dangerously close to mind control.

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I don't use one because I don't care. Ads don't bother me.

I agree with this wholeheartedly and have often wished for such a thing myself. I don't mind ads because I know they are by far the lesser of all evils for the most part; i just don't want to see ads that take over the screen, play sound or advertise mail-order brides.

I have adblocker for every other site besides the ones I visit regularly and am an active participant of. So sites like GB I have it disabled, but if I'm looking up a recipe or some shit on a random site, I don't really give a fuck. Also, internet ads are fucking stupid and are a dying method for funding sites and things need to change soon or else shit is going to blow up all over the web. Until then I'll support the sites I enjoy and go to a lot and will keep them un-ad blocked