Is Adblock bad?

[RustInPeace]

I'm willing to pay extra for the websites I visit if it means turning off ads

Really? A website charges you for an ad-free experience, you'd pay them? To me that doesn't click. An app that charges a nominal fee for an ad-free experience, free to download and mess around with, no problem. I've done that with the Casper app, all they charged was $3, their ads were really annoying, so, no question. An app with a cheap premium is one thing, a website, a whole domain having that kind of deal is stupid, greedy. Even if it was cheap, I'm sure there are other sites like the one that charges for ad-free, so why bother?

 

[sarkwalvein]

By default I enable ABP for everything, then I disable it for some pages as an exception.
I have it disabled only for gbatemp and youtube right now.
If I like the page, want to support it, and the ads are not very intrussive, then I disable the adblocker for that page.
(and tbh sometimes the ads on youtube make me smile, call me weird)

I can't even navigate GBATemp anymore without being assaulted by adverts. The worst ones are the video ads, redirects, and full-page ads which actually have a countdown on the close button. These ads need to fucking stop.

Do you have some virus that modifies the gbatemp site?
I have abp disabled for the site and I only get a small static banner below the comments.

 

[Vipera]

Really? A website charges you for an ad-free experience, you'd pay them? To me that doesn't click. An app that charges a nominal fee for an ad-free experience, free to download and mess around with, no problem. I've done that with the Casper app, all they charged was $3, their ads were really annoying, so, no question. An app with a cheap premium is one thing, a website, a whole domain having that kind of deal is stupid, greedy. Even if it was cheap, I'm sure there are other sites like the one that charges for ad-free, so why bother?

If the website is static then sure, but if the website is news related, for example, it's going to have new content nearly every hour written by professionals. The world of journalism is fucked up as it is already, I don't want to be part of the problem :/

 

[Jayro]

I'll allow nds-card.com ads on GBATemp, because they're a sponsor for the site, and I respect that. (I love this place, and won't obstruct their financial flow)

HOWEVER... Other sites need to stop pushing their server costs onto the users. Pay your own damn server rental bills like a damn adult. I don't know where this trend of pushing server costs onto the viewer came from, but it's a trend I wish never got started. Maybe I should shove IRL advertisements in my apartment windows, and charge my neighbors money every time they look at them so they'll pay my electric bill. (Sounds pretty stupid, right? So does pushing your server rental costs onto users)

 

[sarkwalvein]

I'll allow nds-card.com ads on GBATemp, because they're a sponsor for the site, and I respect that. (I love this place, and won't obstruct their financial flow)

HOWEVER... Other sites need to stop pushing their server costs onto the users. Pay your own damn server rental bills like a damn adult. I don't know where this trend of pushing server costs onto the viewer came from, but it's a trend I wish never got started. Maybe I should shove IRL advertisements in my apartment windows, and charge my neighbors money every time they look at them so they'll pay my electric bill. (Sounds pretty stupid, right? So does pushing your server rental costs onto users)

And you are just a some kind of philantropist that wants to throw your money for the sake of the enjoyment of the users? Wut?

PS: Based on your example I suppose your neighbors go daily to your home to charge their computers, store their things in your fridge, watch tv, etc.

 

[Vipera]

HOWEVER... Other sites need to stop pushing their server costs onto the users. Pay your own damn server rental bills like a damn adult. I don't know where this trend of pushing server costs onto the viewer came from, but it's a trend I wish never got started. Maybe I should shove IRL advertisements in my apartment windows, and charge my neighbors money every time they look at them so they'll pay my electric bill. (Sounds pretty stupid, right? So does pushing your server rental costs onto users)

You have every right to put ads in your windows if you let your house be an open spot for people to get inside and use your place for stuff. Or you can even charge them. That's what every place open to public does, from hotels to museums.

 

[FAST6191]

I don't think that analogy really holds. Not to mention it was more "if advertising no longer works then maybe it is time to invent a new way".

I would contemplate social contracts maybe not being updated for the internet age but even when watching TV the only thing I ever heard negative about adverts, at least prior to DVRs, was the power companies would know when it happened as everybody went and turned on their kettle, never looked to see if water/sewer companies would similarly know.

That said the rise of adblock did maybe lead to native advertising (though I have examples of such things going back decades), and that is maybe harder to filter.

If someone wanted to try to cast it as "the payment I seek for the service I render is to watch an advert*, without it you are being a tea leaf" then I guess I will listen to the further arguments but it is not looking like I change my stance.

*or maybe defraud the advert company by having it play and paying no attention to it.

 

[Ghost]

Personally, I prefer uBlock Origin since it less resource hungry as opposed to AdBlock Plus.

 

[Jayro]

Personally, I prefer Ublock Origin since it less resource hungry as opposed to AdBlock Plus.

I use uBlockOrigin in Chrome, not Windows, and it does a fantastic job.

 

[smf]

HOWEVER... Other sites need to stop pushing their server costs onto the users. Pay your own damn server rental bills like a damn adult.

And you need to start paying your own damn travel costs like an adult when you come round here and mow my lawn for free.

 

[migles]

I think we should just suck it up and watch a 5 seconds ad or deal with our precious websites filled with ads. It helps money go around easier really..

i don't think i should suck it up while i am trying to open something and 5-10 windows automatically open full of flash\images\videos wasting my internet bandwith, while i am just trying to read a news page that could be resumed into a sentence, but for some reason the real information is behind 3 "click here to read more\next page" buttons to find out, it didn't worth my time

3-5 seconds videos on youtube i can suck it up, depends on the occasions.. when i am just listening to music it really sucks, the fucking ads are louder than the music itself and i can't leave on a playlist alone, because after several songs i have to switch into the tab and click the skip button otherwise i have to suck up a 20-40 (sometimes even longuer) video ads

 

[FAST6191]

HOWEVER... Other sites need to stop pushing their server costs onto the users. Pay your own damn server rental bills like a damn adult. I don't know where this trend of pushing server costs onto the viewer came from, but it's a trend I wish never got started. Maybe I should shove IRL advertisements in my apartment windows, and charge my neighbors money every time they look at them so they'll pay my electric bill. (Sounds pretty stupid, right? So does pushing your server rental costs onto users)

If my friends and I have a knees up and our houses or gardens are not suitable for the task we all chip in and rent a village hall somewhere. If the party is 24/7 and online then I don't see a great deal of difference. There are bad ways to set about obtaining the funds but the notion itself is one that tracks with things people generally do in the world. I agree it has got more prevalent since ISPs stopped providing hosting, work hosts started getting sued and thus stopped, universities got tired of being warez hosters and... free hosting has always sucked but even more so since we invented php and they decided not to follow along into that world. The times, they do a change though.

 

[Vipera]

i don't think i should suck it up while i am trying to open something and 5-10 windows automatically open full of flash\images\videos wasting my internet bandwith, while i am just trying to read a news page that could be resumed into a sentence, but for some reason the real information is behind 3 "click here to read more\next page" buttons to find out, it didn't worth my time

You should probably change website altogether then. If a website is using so many advertising chances are it's either a clickbait site or warez. Not really worth of your attention, regardless of their content.

 

[migles]

You should probably change website altogether then. If a website is using so many advertising chances are it's either a clickbait site or warez. Not really worth of your attention, regardless of their content.

i know, but this seems standard almost everywhere..
i always use adblock, some ads get through but i don't notice the majority of stuff..

 

[V0ltr0n]

Adblock for youtube is bad imho. Adblock for sites that have popups is just fine. Popups are the most retarded, intrusive kind of ad to exist. I don't use adblock myself. I just avoid sites with popups.

 

[coolfuze]

This https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en
and this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...chrome/bkkbcggnhapdmkeljlodobbkopceiche?hl=en

I cannot surf without anymore

 

[Thirty3Three]

I turn it off when watching YouTubers I want to support, but other than that, it mostly stays on.

Fork that. Ads suuuuuuuuck. Old YouTube was best YouTube

 

[coolfuze]

Adblock for youtube is bad imho. Adblock for sites that have popups is just fine. Popups are the most retarded, intrusive kind of ad to exist. I don't use adblock myself. I just avoid sites with popups.

F**k youtube at the moment, they stopped offering ads on a lot of conservative speakers channels in hopes those channels will stop producing content, that's the logical reason.

 

[V0ltr0n]

F**k youtube at the moment, they stopped offering ads on a lot of conservative speakers channels in hopes those channels will stop producing content, that's the logical reason.

Well, that is indeed bullshit. I was unaware. I just thought it was some ad revenue crap affecting all youtubers.

 

[WeedZ]

Advertising is a detriment to the continued growth of the human species so the argument is moot