I don't use an adblocker but I do use NoScript.
Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
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Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
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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 hope you also enjoy paying a fee for every single website you enjoy, because without ads, this would be the only way anyone would be able to keep the lights on.
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Oh yeah... plus hosts file blocking of the most egregious servers and DNS blocking of the most egregious domains.
What are some egregious servers? Can I have a peek at your /etc/hosts I have flashblock, adblock with the antisocial filter. Still I see the damn twitter buttons. Is there a way to remove them and g+? How do I prevent google from tracking me?
Ghostery.
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#164Nope, 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.
Would you prefer to pay for your online content? Without ads, that's the only sustainable business model I can see for things ranging from the NY Times to Penny Arcade.
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#165Ghostery, Disconnect, FlashBlock, AdBlock, and in some browser profile: NoScript & RequestPolicy. I whitelist trusted sites. The online ad ecosystem is out of control with surveillance: data collection, tracking, device fingerprinting, aggregation, de-anonymization, etc. (and data volumes). HTTP_DNT=1
You don't need Disconnect if you're using Ghostery. I too was using Disconnect first, but Ghostery (at least the most recent version) does its job and then some.
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#166I don't use an ad blocker, but I don't regularly visit any web site with ads. If a website has ads I leave never to return again.
You don't read any newspapers online? Or read any web comics?
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#167Nope, never have. I have 99 problems but an ad ain't one.
I don't use adblock either. If I find a site that is so eggregiously ad-heavy that it hampers my browsing experience I'll generally just not go there. For the most part such sites don't have much to offer anyway so it's not a big loss.
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#168Of course. AdBlock + Flashblock + OptimizeGoogle (blocks Google ads) + Ghostery. Say what you want about the ethics of adblocking, but at this point, browsing the web without an adblocker is truly painful for me, as I've been using one for 5+ years.
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#169Trying to speak reason to HN on this is a lost cause. Look at the results of the poll so far:
About 65% of HN use an adblocker. The general online population, only about 1% use an adblocker.
HN is heavily heavily biased away from advertising. HN also mistakenly probably thinks it's because they're "early adopters" or more "technical". The truth is more like HN is in a bubble, anti-mainstream etc. If you did a poll on here to find out how many people watched American Idol, you'd probably find similar results - but that wouldn't mean HNers were 'ahead of the curve', it'd just mean HNers aren't "mainstream".
Get out of your bubble HN. Do what your potential users do - view ads. Maybe even buy a TV as well!
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I offered to pay a higher monthly fee in order to watch content on Hulu commercial free. There's no commercial free option, so I cancelled. Bottom line is I hate being exposed to commercials and am happy to pay for content.
I prefer having ads during a film, so that I can get a break and go make tea or whatever. Watching films on the BBC, which has no ads, used to irritate me a bit, as there are no breaks. But I guess you can hit pause on Hulu, unlike on regular television.
I have a Sky box. It lets me pause live TV. Including the BBC.