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Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

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Re: Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

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Post by robinh »

lmkg wrote: post #22

I run Opera, which has a built-in content blocker. As a rule, I don't block ads because they're a revenue source for many sites and I consider them the cost of admission. If I consider the annoyance a fair exchange for the content then I'll accept the ads, and if I don't think the content is worth the ads then I won't use the site. I will disable particular ads on a case-by-case basis that I consider pathologically a…

"In the special case of floating overlays, I am a strange, strange person. I will not click on the close button, because I don't like clicking on an ad, even to close it. Instead, I will fire up the debugger and delete the ad from the DOM."

That's actually completely understandable, because in many pop-up ads closing it triggers something else, or something that appears to be a close button actually isn't, and so on and so forth. I find these ads to be the most intrusive and annoying.

Re: Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

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Post by AlexMuir »

petercooper wrote: post #29

The strong "Yes" vote here is another indicator as to why the media is jumping on the 'native ad' bandwagon: http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisperry/2012/10/04/advertisin... (sometimes called 'content marketing', but it's not exactly the same) Instead of slapping ads around the side of your page that can be blocked, you bust some holes in the Chinese wall and let advertising become involved in the narrative. There are…

Can you point to any current examples online? I'm not quite sure what this would look like. I know in the UK it's obligatory for an advertisement to be identified as such.

Re: Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

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Post by throwit1979 »

AlexMuir wrote: post #3

Adblocker is one of the first things I installed for my mother on her new computer. For me seeing ads is an annoyance, but for her it's a real problem. She can't instantly distinguish adverts from content - particularly things like Adsense.

How is one unable to distinguish ads from content? Even without the visual cues of div separation and "Ads By ____" inset, there's a huge difference between the following:

"The history of knitting, yarns, and crochet"

"Thousands of Knitting Yarns FREE! Get quick and easy patterns today!"

Re: Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

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Post by gojomo »

Not a specific ad blocker, but:

• I do most browsing in Firefox, with no Flash plug-in installed, and NoScript (with gradual whitelisting of individual sites as needed).

• For a few sites, or Flash, I switch to Chrome with its sandboxed and rapidly-patched Flash plug-in, and even there Flash is set 'click to enable' on all but a few sites (eg: YouTube).

So lots of ads don't appear.

I do this for security and performance, not out of any resentment of ads.

Re: Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

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Post by 4ad »

I'm a strange person. I don't use an ad blocker because I despise browser extensions on an ideological basis, but I also hate ads, so I avoid sites where I can see them. When I used Opera, I used to use the built-in ad blocker though.

Re: Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

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Post by antihero »

throwit1979 wrote: post #35
AlexMuir wrote: post #3

Adblocker is one of the first things I installed for my mother on her new computer. For me seeing ads is an annoyance, but for her it's a real problem. She can't instantly distinguish adverts from content - particularly things like Adsense.

How is one unable to distinguish ads from content? Even without the visual cues of div separation and "Ads By ____" inset, there's a huge difference between the following: "The history of knitting, yarns, and crochet" "Thousands of Knitting Yarns FREE! Get quick and easy patterns today!"

How about download sites where there's like a million "DOWNLOAD NOW" fake buttons?
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