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Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

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Re: Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

#72
Yes. Except for okcupid. They pleaded with me via an ad of theirs (which was locally so it wasn't flagged by adblock) telling me that they rely on ads for income. They also said that I coud just pay 5 or 10$ and pay for my use for life. Which was a pretty cool thing to do :)

Ads should be quality checked by the site's owners. A crappy ad can turn away a visitor. At least I don't run the risk of that.

Re: Poll: Do you use an Adblocker?

#74
I run Adblocker Plus from Chrome, but I keep it disabled unless the site in question gets WAY too intrusive. I keep it disabled for at-home content creators, like bloggers or blip.tv channels. People who work hard on something and get no other form of compensation for it SHOULD get add revenue.

Something like Disney.com, though, where there are about a zillion ads for cruises I will never go on, can kiss my taint. Ditto for ads that are loud, distracting videos on the sidebar, or ads that crash my poor little netbook (yes, there have been a few. My laptop is a fragile flower).

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