I started blocking ads a couple of years ago, when I noticed more and more websites took longer and longer to display. All because of waiting for some ad on some other server which particular routing was going halfway trough the globe. Some of the servers were even unreachable and I would end up waiting 2 or 3 minutes for a web site that was already fully loaded except for the ads(I was on dialup, btw). It could be argued that it is the HTML rendering engine that was at fault, but blocking the ads is much simpler than fixing the browser. That said, I don't mind the least seeing ads on web sites, as long as they dont interfere with the purpose of the site.
Why not ride the wave of unchecked buffer exploits and start boobytrapping web pages with mailto:blablabla_payload links that could disable/crash/whatever the most widely used email "harvesting" tools ?
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I started blocking ads a couple of years ago, when I noticed more and more websites took longer and longer to display. All because of waiting for some ad on some other server which particular routing was going halfway trough the globe. Some of the servers were even unreachable and I would end up waiting 2 or 3 minutes for a web site that was already fully loaded except for the ads(I was on dialup, btw). It could be argued that it is the HTML rendering engine that was at fault, but blocking the ads is much simpler than fixing the browser. That said, I don't mind the least seeing ads on web sites, as long as they dont interfere with the purpose of the site.
Why not ride the wave of unchecked buffer exploits and start boobytrapping web pages with mailto:blablabla_payload links that could disable/crash/whatever the most widely used email "harvesting" tools ?