Ads don't bother me. Flash and other plugins bother me so I use a flash/plugin blocker. Keep the ads text and I'll at least see them show up on the page :)
Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
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Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#52Yes, I use ABP and Ghostery. I would run noscript, but too many sites are incapable of rendering in plain html these days.
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#53Adblock, Noscript, Ghostery, BetterPrivacy and ShareMeNot. I'm using Firefox.
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#54Nope, 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.
While maybe unsolicited advertising is annoying, good luck with your mental notes though. I assume you are writing your posts on a computer? Sure hope Intel or AMD never ran a commercial...
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#55I don't mind most ads. But I do manually block particularly bad ones.
I wouldn't use one of those AdBlock subscriptions though. Sure, maybe now you won't be "tracked" by as many ad networks, but you're allowing your web experience to be edited by some unknown party. Most configurations don't even show you what you're missing.
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#56Banner ads are the reason that several of our favorite websites can even exist. Therefore, no, I do not block ads. It's almost internet blasphemy.
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#57Opera comes with a "content blocker" that I use. If I see an annoying ad, I block its origin. I count all animated ads as annoying, because they distract me from the content.
In blocking only a few sources, this takes care of nearly all ads on the Internet, with the notable exceptions of Google's and Facebook's ads. These I don't mind. I don't interact with them either, but I see no obligation to.
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#58AdBlock + NoScript. The web has been much more tolerable for a long time, thanks to these, and it is always amazing how much noise is on the page when I navigate with an alternate browser.
I use AdBlock, but I stopped using NoScript. NoScript essentially makes the modern web unusable. For 99% of the sites I visit I want them to be able to make my user experience more pleasurable through these technologies.
It would be interesting to know how many devs consider NoScript users when designing websites. (I personally think it's too much effort).
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#59Nope, 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.
All ads? Really? This whole website is, in a sense, a promotional vehicle for Y Combinator.
Re: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
#60as a few of you have pointed out, i'm at the point where i can't really stand to browse without an adblocker of some sort - and so use a combination of adblock + ghostery. for those that may not be aware, if you flash your router with tomato/dd-wrt/etc you can install an adblocker/host script which will allow all mobile (iphone/ipad/android/etc) devices to browse relatively ad-free when connected to wifi.