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Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by zorked » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:50 PM UTC

dice wrote: post #12

throwawayReply wrote: post #2

Young Millenials? Are they different to "Young persons"? And what is an "Old Millenial"? Why not just describe the group of 18-24 year olds as "Young adults", which is what they are.

>what is an "Old Millenial"? Someone currently in their early-to-mid 30s. End of Gen X, beginning of Millennials.

What happened to Gen Y. Not catchy enough?

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by MOARDONGZPLZ » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:53 PM UTC

aqme28 wrote: post #10

TACIXAT wrote: post #5

Everyone should install Millennials to Snake People. It's a great addon that makes the internet way better. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna...

I loved that add-on until they started adding a bunch of other filters that really aren't particularly funny (Great Recession -> Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks).

The Pure extension is a fork that ONLY does the one conversion. Much better:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna...

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by saosebastiao » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:54 PM UTC

I'm not where my position is relative to the rest of my generation, but for me it's all about practicality. I have no vendetta against advertising and I don't think it is inherently evil. I don't think it makes for a good content publishing model, but that is the content publishers choice. What bothers me is how intrusive and obnoxious they are. Large ads that pop up or take up 3/4 of the screen, can't click out because the [x] button is too small, making me wait to watch an ad with no escape hatch, video with loud volume, popunders, etc. it just got out of hand, so I opted out completely.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by ryandvm » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

Ad blocking is a textbook case of "prisoners' dilemma". And as someone that uses an ad blocker, I find the increasing popularity of ad blockers unnerving.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by _RPM » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:56 PM UTC

What's the sample size here?

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by jzymbaluk » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

eistrati wrote: post #19

fatlasp wrote: post #13

I temporarily disabled ghostery yesterday and ended up visiting the LA Times. Without an adblocker the loading / performance / experience was horrific! Long live the ad-free web!

Would you use LA Times if we'd convince them to implement the following user experience: https://demo.adtechmedia.io/atm-core/nytimes/www.nytimes.com... NOTE: Above article is from NY Times and is ONLY for demo purposes :)

I thought when I first saw that page that it could be defeated with a simple inspect element, but it looks like when the atm-blurry is removed from the paragraph id's that the paragraphs themselves were all gibberish! I wonder if the text is randomly generated or if it's some kind of text-cypher.

Either way, this type of paywall experience is significantly less annoying than a pop-up, but I personally would still be unlikely to pay for a subscription

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by thatfrenchguy » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:58 PM UTC

zorked wrote: post #21

dice wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>what is an "Old Millenial"? Someone currently in their early-to-mid 30s. End of Gen X, beginning of Millennials.

What happened to Gen Y. Not catchy enough?

Too many people from Grn Y don't ask enough questions :/

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by Kiro » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

jobu wrote: post #20

As the most technical person in my network of friends and family I'm often the one they go to for computer help. For years one of the first things I do if I touch their computers is install uBlock. Lately a couple of them have gotten new computers and mentioned that they think it came with a virus because there ads everywhere on the internet.

I hope you inform them before installing it. If someone installed something that's tampering with my browsing experience without telling me I would be pretty mad.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by douche » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

Who in that age cohort didn't experience the wild west days of shady Flash and Java applets, Punch the Monkey games, RealPlayer, Shockwave, Internet Explorer and all the other insecure crap we used to deal with.

Raise your hand if you never got a virus and almost bricked the family computer doing something mostly innocuous...

Ad-blocking may not be as essential to self-defense as it used to be, but old habits die hard.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by Redoubts » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

jobu wrote: post #20

As the most technical person in my network of friends and family I'm often the one they go to for computer help. For years one of the first things I do if I touch their computers is install uBlock. Lately a couple of them have gotten new computers and mentioned that they think it came with a virus because there ads everywhere on the internet.

Do they ever ask what's going on when a page complains about running an ad blocker?