Isn't the Internet an ugly place.

kjl

Today, adbock plus some how lost the list of ads to block. It's fixed now thank god but every single page I went to was covered in ads. All they do is flicker and annoy you.

Does anyone not use adblock, and if so why?

TouchingVirus

I don't use it as I have this apparently uncommon ability to ignore shít on the internet without needing the software equivalent of blinkers

Lionel Messy

The internet is great. I can meet vastly articulate and hugely interesting people like you.

hoodwinked

i use adblock, i got sick of being offered viagra 24/7! (im female btw)

Rented Mule

I feel that the internet is a reflection of the user OP.

humbert

TouchingVirus wrote: »

I don't use it as I have this apparently uncommon ability to ignore shít on the internet without needing the software equivalent of blinkers

I assume that, given the choice, you also wouldn't skip the ads on tv?

akura

Adblock plus is the shizz

cml387

DeVore will be having a little cry at this point.

TPD

hoodwinked wrote: »

i use adblock, i got sick of being offered viagra 24/7! (im female btw)

Can I interest you in some viagra?

Kxiii

I bet all of ye using adblock would download a car too.

hoodwinked

TPD wrote: »

Can I interest you in some viagra?

NO!!! :eek:

*cant find the block button*


i wouldn't mind but when i was engaged it was all "check out our real diamond rings" or "book us for your wedding"

i change my status to married and suddenly its all "can we interest you in viagra" or "the little blue pill that can"

TouchingVirus

humbert wrote: »

I assume that, given the choice, you also wouldn't skip the ads on tv?

Apples and oranges. For one thing most ads on the internet are in addition to the content you wish to read, so you can ignore them and still get the same thing you want - the content. Ads on TV aren't shown in addition to the TV show, they're shown in between.

To answer your question anyway it's a no, I don't channel hop during ads on the TV.

El Guapo!

Why can't people just ignore the ads? The only annoying ones are the ones that automatically play music when you open a page. Other than that, just ignore them.
Or you could subscribe to Boards and turn ads off!

Squeaky the Squirrel

TouchingVirus wrote: »

I don't use it as I have this apparently uncommon ability to ignore shít on the internet without needing the software equivalent of blinkers

Why did you stop using it?

castletownman

The Internet can be an ugly place. Like this internet dating lark. I'd never subscribe to that. I'd rather find a person the traditional way.

Through alcohol and pure judgement

briany

TouchingVirus wrote: »

I don't use it as I have this apparently uncommon ability to ignore shít on the internet without needing the software equivalent of blinkers

That's OK for non instrusive ad banners and little things, they're totally ignorable. The problem comes from the noisemaker ads, the ones with video, sound, blinking lights and the like. The ones that threaten to almost completely obfuscate a web page, that give you their totally undesirable pitch with each visit and that threaten to use up precious data if you're on a capped mobile internet plan. A waste of time and money on both sides. Huge gratitude to Ad Block Plus and it's makers for putting manners on arrogant advertisers.

I realise that many websites are funded by revenue from this so hopefully ad makers will continue to make more modest ads in future, conducive to a seamless web browsing experience and internet users will be able to turn off their adblockers on websites they enjoy and want to give a little bit back to.

TheUsual

Just ignore ads. I click too fast for ads to keeps up anyway.

I used to have adblocker software, but you start to miss out on what is current, like new phones, windows software, new software. The 'zeitgeist' I think it's called somewhere ?

So I went back to ads to keep in touch as I don't watch a lot of TV.

flanders1979

I only discovered adblock last year. Its great. Pity it doesn't stop junkmail coming in through the letter box.

Squeaky the Squirrel

TheUsual wrote: »

Just ignore ads. I click too fast for ads to keeps up anyway.

I used to have adblocker software, but you start to miss out on what is current, like new phones, windows software, new software. The 'zeitgeist' I think it's called somewhere ?

So I went back to ads to keep in touch as I don't watch a lot of TV.

Following 3 or 4 tech news sites would keep you up to date.

TouchingVirus

Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

Why did you stop using it?

Mainly because I swapped browsers to Chrome and never installed it. Now none of the browsers I use have Adblock installed except Firefox at home, but that's more out of laziness for an uninstall - Chrome is the primary. I also realised that 90% of the sites I visit are visited repeatedly, I like them, so I'm not going to do them out of advertising revenue. I will complain if the ads become properly intrusive (i.e. popup, popunder, auto-playing video, sound, seizure inducing ads with flashing backgrounds etc).

kjl

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Mainly because I swapped browsers to Chrome and never installed it. Now none of the browsers I use have Adblock installed except Firefox at home, but that's more out of laziness for an uninstall - Chrome is the primary. I also realised that 90% of the sites I visit are visited repeatedly, I like them, so I'm not going to do them out of advertising revenue. I will complain if the ads become properly intrusive (i.e. popup, popunder, auto-playing video, sound, seizure inducing ads with flashing backgrounds etc).

yeah, unless you are clicking on those ads and buying things, you are doing diddly squat to "help" the site out.

maxfresh

ad block is great stops those annoying 5 second ads on youtube

I use it but I'd rather not. The only site I really want to block ads on is YouTube because they're so damn annoying, but ABP only works on a whitelist rather than a blacklist. So I have a fair few sites whitelisted.

I used to use AdBlockVideo which did just the job, but they stopped updating it with Firefox 15.

TouchingVirus

kjl wrote: »

yeah, unless you are clicking on those ads and buying things, you are doing diddly squat to "help" the site out.

And who said I wasn't? I've clicked on a fair few - the most recent being an ad for Mouseflow (and all the muslim women ones here to boards too :pac:). Anything else? Also there are CPM (Impression) rates, and I count as an impression while you do not.

Squeaky the Squirrel

kjl wrote: »

yeah, unless you are clicking on those ads and buying things, you are doing diddly squat to "help" the site out.

Na, they mostly work by impressions now, once they're displayed, site benefits. It use to be the way you're thinking, still is for some I think but mostly impressions now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_impression

kjl

Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

Na, they mostly work by impressions now, once they're displayed, site benefits. It use to be the way you're thinking, still is for some I think but mostly impressions now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_impression

Impressions are free with Google ads. Plus it's not like you couldn't use tor to randomly generate ip addresses and have 1000's of impressions

humbert

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Apples and oranges. For one thing most ads on the internet are in addition to the content you wish to read, so you can ignore them and still get the same thing you want - the content. Ads on TV aren't shown in addition to the TV show, they're shown in between.

To answer your question anyway it's a no, I don't channel hop during ads on the TV.

TV ads are shown in addition to the programs! It's exactly the same as having the article you're reading interrupted by an advert, you have to scan the ad to to find the continuation of the article. Sure, the interruption is brief but they are frequent. Also, I didn't ask if you watched the TV ads, I asked would you remove them if you could!

Each to their own though. Which reminds me, I must add an exception for boards.

Squeaky the Squirrel

kjl wrote: »

Impressions are free with Google ads. Plus it's not like you couldn't use tor to randomly generate ip addresses and have 1000's of impressions

Pay by the thousand impressions with Google Ads? No?

http://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6310?hl=en&ref_topic=24937

http://www.profitworks.ca/blog/109-google-adwords-cost-per-impression

Reading around there abit on it though it really comes down to the type of advertiser and the campaign they want to run...

Anyway...don't really care or want to get into it so I leaving it there.

TouchingVirus

humbert wrote: »

TV ads are shown in addition to the programs! It's exactly the same as having the article you're reading interrupted by an advert, you have to scan the ad to to find the continuation of the article. Sure, the interruption is brief but they are frequent. Also, I didn't ask if you watched the TV ads, I asked would you remove them if you could!

I don't know any site that forces their advertisement on me for 3 minute segments. If I did I would most definitely be in favour of removing them. I pay a license fee for TV, I do not for content on the internet. That's just two differences, there are many. Hence the apples and oranges comment. I fail to see the relevance of TV ads, it's not what the topic is about.

Senna

But if you don't read the adverts, isn't that like stealing from the internet?

somefeen

How come I don't have this problem?
Only sites I've ever been on that had ads with sound are dodgy porn.

So by my own reasoning, people that use ad blocker are perverts.

kjl

kjl wrote: »

Today, adbock plus some how lost the list of ads to block. It's fixed now thank god but every single page I went to was covered in ads. All they do is flicker and annoy you.

Does anyone not use adblock, and if so why?

Weird I just installed Adblock on my newly jailbroken iPhone and opened boards to test. This was the first thread.

lintdrummer

I use adblock for chrome. Main reason i installed it was because on my slow connection it really improves my browser speed.

Squeaky the Squirrel

lintdrummer wrote: »

I use adblock for chrome. Main reason i installed it was because on my slow connection it really improves my browser speed.

same, stick on no script aswell or whatever the chrome equiv is called.

I don't use NoScript because it hampers the user experience too much. Disabling JavaScript just breaks too many sites.

Squeaky the Squirrel

Karsini wrote: »

I don't use NoScript because it hampers the user experience too much. Disabling JavaScript just breaks too many sites.

It's abit of a headache/takes abit of time to figure out what needs to be allowed but all good then.

deisedave

El Guapo! wrote: »

Why can't people just ignore the ads? The only annoying ones are the ones that automatically play music when you open a page. Other than that, just ignore them.
Or you could subscribe to Boards and turn ads off!

People visit more sites than just boards.ie with adblock. The reason I use adblock is because certain sites have a pop up for gambling or whatever every time you click link, so I use adblock for those sites and just forget to turn it off.

Standman

TouchingVirus wrote: »

I don't use it as I have this apparently uncommon ability to ignore shít on the internet without needing the software equivalent of blinkers

Silly, silly post. :eek:

PC CDROM

I use ad block.

Some of the porn sites I visit have horrendous ads! All them wimmin trying to "chat" to me.

TouchingVirus

Standman wrote: »

Silly, silly post. :eek:

Really? Please do elaborate

CollardGreens

why does "somefeen" look at dogy porn? we have dog parks here in the states, usually you can view some butt sniffing there ~ should I perhaps take some pic's and post them?

(;))

TwoShedsJackson

Can ignore them most of them time, but after the 8 billionth 'the internet has blessed me with a $23463466 an hour job' and 24 billionth 'cut down a bit of your belly fat every day with this weird old tip', they can feck off, really.

deisedave

PC CDROM wrote: »

I use ad block.

Some of the porn sites I visit have horrendous ads! All them wimmin trying to "chat" to me.

All joking aside that is my main reason, when I watch porn there is constant ads so I install adblock to get around that. I really should start browsing sites like boards on a different browser or disable adblock when browsing boards because its such a good site. I think I will use firefox for boards in the future.

Also adblock is also used to get around those annoying ads on youtube.

Namlub

cisk wrote: »

Weird I just installed Adblock on my newly jailbroken iPhone and opened boards to test. This was the first thread.

Oh, do you have an iPhone?

Squeaky the Squirrel

Namlub wrote: »

Oh, do you have an iPhone?

:D

Namlub

Namlub wrote: »

Oh, do you have an iPhone?

Yeah, thank god for the jailbreak, Adblock was one of the first tweaks installed. The boards.ie mobile ads are too damn big.

BluesBerry

cisk wrote: »

Weird I just installed Adblock on my newly jailbroken iPhone and opened boards to test. This was the first thread.

New iPhone? showoff!!!!!



:pac:

WatchWolf

I once saw a video of a kitten being nailed to a tree and shot to death on the internet.

But you're talking about ads.

Oh.

Ruudi_Mentari

I guess 2 men / 1 screwdriver and the like is the Gremlins / Ghoulies of my day?

Glad I was only exposed to the laytex and cheap thrills of a different variety as a lad. Furthest our morbid / sexual curiosity was permitted was an 18 cert movie, wasn't even porn mags in circulation!

PC CDROM

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Really? Please do elaborate

If it needs explaining.....

kjl

Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »

I guess 2 men / 1 screwdriver and the like is the Gremlins / Ghoulies of my day?

Glad I was only exposed to the laytex and cheap thrills of a different variety as a lad. Furthest our morbid / sexual curiosity was permitted was an 18 cert movie, wasn't even porn mags in circulation!

Jesus Christ, why did I look at that, 1 man 1 screwdriver, I actually feel sick. Why? Why? Why would he do that? Like there is no sexual gratification from it.