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Why Do You Block Ads?
flyingember asks: "With ad blocking becoming ever more popular among users, why do you block ads? And with what? Do you view internet ads as different from say, TV ads? What about in a magazine? Do you not buy a magazine because it has too many? I'm specifically talking about the ads in a webpage, but even popup blockers can cause problems with me using a site."
Recently in Barnes & Noble, I remarked to my friends, "I won't buy magazines because they're all full of ads. Why can't they make a magazine with no ads?", to which one friend responded, "What you want is a book."
Because I have never seen an internet ad that actually made me interested in a product.
...dogs lick their balls?
Twelve-and-three-quarter inches. Unyielding. This wand belonged to Bellatrix Lestrange.
That would just be plain unfair.
The Mothership
Dr. Freud to the front desk please...
You may not understand fashionistas, but they aren't simply idiotic. They are simply playing an entirely different game than you are - one that has its own rewards and advantages.
I block google ads. They're less annoying, but thats like saying someone who punches you in the face is less of an asshole than someone who kicks you in the nuts.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
7. Profit?
Nobody even made fun of you. You should have just let it go and nobody would have noticed.
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RumorsDaily
Also just as annoying or amusing is when I do searches and get google ads to find bessel functions on ebay, quarks at pricegrabber or other irrelevant nonsense.
Cultural relativism! Woohoo!
People engaged in insipid, useless, self-referential activities are not just 'playing a different game'. They're playing a dumb game, demonstrably.
No gods, no demons, and no masters. Secular Humanism!
Jews
Looking for Jews?
Find exactly what you want today
www.eBay.com
But if you don't look at the ads it's like you're stealing the internet!
Georgia Tech, the leader in Chia(tm) technology.
be careful. they just might.
Science : Proprietary , Knowledge : Open Source
You're getting paid for your slashdot comments? Where do I sign up?!
Not this website 'cause it treats my favorite poster - the AC - like dogshit in order to increase its more trackable, sellable, registered user base. This is to the detriment of discussion and moderated information exchange.
Some people will laugh with you, but the rest of us are laughing at you while we get bargain prices on quarks and bessel functions.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
...or cover some part of the house while you're painting :) Try that with Flash ads.
Actually, the Flash ads worked fine, but removing the paint from my laptop afterwards was a bitch.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
or "YOU ARE A WINNER CLICK HERE AND SUBMIT YOU EMAIL ADDRESS"
there normaly plain text and have something to do with the website your viewing.
what i hate the most is adverts that claim they scanned your computer/registery and found spyware. when your not even using windows.
See, if I see an ad on a web page (especially a large / moving / flashing / content-obscuring one), I think less of the advertised product. There's no chance I'll shop at Orbitz, and I don't even know what they are! I just know I dislike the company from their ads. So by blocking the ads, I'm doing the companies that placed the ads a big favor by increasing the likelihood I'll buy their products.
Besides that, the one time I browsed without Adblock recently I was amazed that so many news sites I liked to read were so crowded with ads I could barely read the text! No thanks - the website is much more pleasant without ads.
The ones I hate the most are the ones not caught by my current privoxy setup. Though the ones you mention are a close second.
The Farewell Tour II
If you were american, you'd send a bill to accounts payable for consulting hours.
Democrats and Republicans only disagree about how to enslave you
Now I shop at eBay.
I filter my internet for the same reason I filter my tap water. Just because there's crap in it i don't want.
I propose the following punishment for all internet advertisers who use invasive ads:
1) Strip advertiser naked.
2) Nail his (odds are he's male) penis to a tree.
3) Hand him a butter knife.
4) Set the tree on fire.
"Fight for lost causes. You may discover they weren't."
All they'll have left are the bottom and strange quarks, and the bessel functions of the second kind. Good luck with those - can't even build a decent nuclear generator with that.
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
A little while ago, my Mum was having trouble convincing one of our older family members to eat properly. I had recently stumbled across a new type of food in the supermarket that my cats really enjoyed, and so I thought that the old cat might enjoy it too..
Typical geeks. Your mum has to eat cat food, and your concern is the HTML vs Flash conflict.
What's the matter with you, what do you have against trees ?
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
There is one reason, and one reason only to watch ordinary TV in America.
You and your flatmate take turns flipping channels. First one to hit a car ad makes the coffee. You never wait more than 90 secs.
Justin.
(With thanks to Mark Williment)
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
Yes. Once I was researching studies on second hand tobacco smoke.
Ebay offered me 'great bargains on 2nd hand tobacco.'
Uh huh?
Environmentalism is the new Victorianism. Everyone ties on a green corset and pretends we're virtuous.
15 Naked advertisers. You?
Remove all ads from TV and couch potatoe generation will suffer from bladder rupture. Sure someone will sue you for that...
I'm not insane. My mother had me tested.
Actually 3.
If you find a package that has just two quarks, one of them is certainly an antiquark, so you better bring that back for a refund!
Ebay also claims to have all the Plutonium you need..
"It ain't a war against drugs.it's a war against personal freedom" --Bill Hicks
Slashdot take note: I am happy to put up with banner ads if they don't consume too many resources, but I simply will not see anything that uses Flash. Perhaps you should make it a condition of advertising on your site - you and El Reg are the only sites I've noticed missing out from this policy.
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There are ads on
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
But if that plugin would require quite a bit of CPU usage to prevent the other plugins from eating up your CPU, we'd be pretty fucked now, wouldn't we?
After 3 days without programming, life becomes meaningless
- The Tao of Programming
I thought you made a good point, and took everything you said seriously, right up until the PowWeb advert in your sig. Thank that people can't put invasive advertising in their Slashdot sigs!
I swear we should be allowed to give mod points to sigs... "-1, Offtopic"