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Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?
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#2Yes, surfing has become unimaginable without one for me. And for the ads that didn't get removed by AdBlock like the Vevo skin around music videos on Youtube's VEVO channels, I made my own: http://www.bitfalls.com/2012/11/deskin-hide-vevo-ads-from-yo...
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#3Adblocker 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.
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#4I don't mind ads. What I have a problem with is animated graphics, autoplaying videos, and pop-ups. Blocking Flash mostly stops this for me, but as HTML5 becomes more popular, I worry that I will lose the ability to stop these kinds of behaviors.
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#5I actually unintentionally started using one by installing Ghostery. I was under the impression that it was just for blocking invisible beacons, like buttons, that sort of thing, but it also took care of virtually all normal display ads. The effect was surprisingly nice, so I've left it enabled.
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#6Setting up AdBlockPlus (along with Ghostery, LastPass and HTTPS Everywhere) is a must after installing a browser on a new box/VM.
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#7I don't, as a web developer/marketer I feel it is important to see what others are doing. I barely notice them, the sites where I do are typically dev related and potentially of interest to me.
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#8Do I vote yes because NoScript and RequestPolicy block many ads? Or do I vote no because they don't block all ads? I think I'll go with yes.
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#9I don't mind ads. What I have a problem with is animated graphics, autoplaying videos, and pop-ups. Blocking Flash mostly stops this for me, but as HTML5 becomes more popular, I worry that I will lose the ability to stop these kinds of behaviors.
An interesting point re HTML5, perhaps we will see the advent of CSS3 animation blockers and the like.
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#10Yes. I'm excited about the future of ads, actually, as Adblock Plus takes off with their new "only block evil ads" approach. A web where nobody feels the need to block ads because the only ads are innocuous and clean is a web we can dream to achieve.