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Banner ads pay my salary, so out of professional courtesy, no. It's very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads. Plus, if I see something egregious on my employer's site, I can let them know. I use Ghostery to see who's buying data from whom.
There are a few more now that detect that you block ads and politely ask you to disable it to conserve their business model. I gladly oblige.
But for every well run site politely asking you to view their un-scammy non-crappy ads, there must be 100 full of whatever advertising program offers the most money, linking to all kinds of information stealing, questionable ethically companies.
When your business model, advertising, begins to threaten the safety of my system, you better believe I'm blocking it!
Wow, as I write this, it's 560 points for Yes. and 292 points for No. Lesson so far: If you want to reach the HN community, don't bother with a web advertising campaign.
One ad I see all the time is Chargify (another is the local airline that absolutely plasters me with ads, as it seems it's the one that bought the Uruguayan market on Google adsense)
Nope, never have. I have 99 problems but an ad ain't one.
I hate ads with a passion. If I had the power, I'd make unsolicited advertising illegal. If I hear or see an ad, I often make a mental note not to buy that product.
I think that it is extremely unfair to block all ads as they are a lifeline for many people. I do however, try to avoid sites that have annoying ads as I expect that my loss in traffic will make a difference, no matter how small it may be. I also watch a lot of Justin.TV and Twitch.TV people and that is really where I base my beliefs. If someone gives too many commercials I simply turn off the stream.
I allow the Google text ads, though :)
Banner ads pay my salary, so out of professional courtesy, no. It's very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads. Plus, if I see something egregious on my employer's site, I can let them know. I use Ghostery to see who's buying data from whom.
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1.5 * 10 = 15 MB, not 150 MB. So you can actually fetch 166 such pages unmodified. Roughly how large is a TechCrunch page with Ghostery?
Yeah I'm still on my first coffee. Good morning and thanks for the math :-) Example: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/03/siri-experiencing-its-first... Without: 275 requests, 2.85 MB transferred With: 76 requests, 1.72 MB transferred Here is the shocker: ACTUAL ARTICLE SIZE: 163 words, 971 bytes. That is a 0.034% of what was actually downloaded. I know that browsers cache stuff. But a lot of these are dynamic resources…
Most sites are pretty good with providing iPhone compatible content, which is magnitudes smaller than the desktop version.
For example the techrunch page from my previous comment comes in at 33 requests and 122 KB when I set Safari to "Mobile Safari iOS 4.3.3 iPhone".
If only Safari on the iPad supported extensions :-/
I use AdBlock and Ghostery. Ghostery is super useful. It throws out so much crap that I am not interested in. On sites like techcrunch, engadget or thenextweb it usually cuts the number of requests in half. Rant: It is sure getting out of hand in a big way: it is not uncommon for tech news sites to send you 1.5 MB of crap surrounding a simple 200 word story. I am getting so tired of that. Specially on mobile. My iPad…
I wouldn't touch Ghostery with a long pole. Their parent company - Evidon - is suspicious. The FAQ on the site is choke-full of weasel words and wishy-washy statements on how they are not an "ad company" but rather an "ad assurance company". Skimpy on actual details too. They have changed their About summary now, but not long ago it basically said that they are in business of delivering better advertisement experienc…