Do you feel guilty about using Ad Block Programs.

wylie

Before i installed a advert blocker, i was constantly having to close ad's popping up in new windows, ads floating across the screen and really noisy talking ad's. Total pain in the butt. Specially adults themed adverts popping up unexpectedly:eek:.

Irish indo article http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/news/irish-publishers-set-to-miss-100m-as-adblocking-continues-to-soar-31447140.html

Do you dudes fell guilty about using ad blocking software?

lertsnim

No

Wacker The Attacker

only if it stops porn

brevity

I have it turned off on certain sites I like so that they can get money from the ads.

josephryan1989

Why would I feel guilty????

Mesrine65

No, if add pop-ups weren't so annoying & intrusive, there would be no need for ad blockers.

K4t

No, and this part only reinforced my lack of guilt.

The ad-blocking epidemic has also affected so-called 'YouTube stars', who make a living from broadcasting material on YouTube and rely on the ads to pay their bills.

ancapailldorcha

Not even a tiny bit. Youtube in particular have started taking the mick with minute long ads for music videos.

Incidentally, does anyone know of a good survey blocker?

syklops

Not even a teeny weenie bit.

blastman

Listening to that gimp from PageFair in the Indo just makes me install more ad blockers! If websites hadn't p!ssed everybody off with the damn things in the first place, there wouldn't be any ad blockers.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

No, occasionally when I use someone else's computer and they don't have it installed I'm reminded how rage inducing the internet is without it. Tis worse it's getting as well

josephryan1989

The ads are the electronic equivalent of those cheerful chugger idiots that step in your way in the city centre by waving at you and trying to get your attention. In the same way I want to chin one of them I also block ads.

Antar Bolaeisk

brevity wrote: »

I have it turned off on certain sites I like so that they can get money from the ads.

Pretty much this, the sites I want to support I allow ads (but only if they're not in your face or overly distracting).

Graham

I don't mind adverts in moderation, especially free sites.

How much can adverts actually add to the page size:

adblocks.jpg

:eek:

hardCopy

wylie wrote: »

Before i installed a advert blocker, i was constantly having to close ad's popping up in new windows, ads floating across the screen and really noisy talking ad's. Total pain in the butt. Specially adults themed adverts popping up unexpectedly:eek:.

Irish indo article http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/news/irish-publishers-set-to-miss-100m-as-adblocking-continues-to-soar-31447140.html

Do you dudes fell guilty about using ad blocking software?

I use an ad blocker and don't feel bad about it.

That Indo infographic is brutal, completely inappropriate use of a pie chart.

endacl

Absolutely. Why dafuq would I feel guilty?

syklops

"Ad-block users are inadvertently inflicting multi-billion dollar losses on the very websites they most enjoy," said Sean Blanchfield

Thats bullsh!t Sean. So called "Much loved" websites are harming themselves by having a floating ad pop up in front of whatever content I am trying to view.

onlinemonkey

Not even slightly; I have turned off the blocker for some sites that I use a lot but if their ads get annoying it just goes back on again.

Graham

syklops wrote: »

Thats bullsh!t Sean. So called "Much loved" websites are harming themselves by having a floating ad pop up in front of whatever content I am trying to view.

+1

The Indo is one of the worst culprits with their auto playing video crap.

tetsujin1979

nope, and I never have.

Rosie Rant

I don't feel very guilty. I got sick of waiting ages for pages to load up because the ads were slowing everything down, of jumping out of my skin because some obnoxious voice had just started shouting in my ear about some "fantastic secret to earning money from home" and of waiting for some crappy ad to finish before I could watch a minute long video on youtube (always the same 2 or 3 ads again and again) . If the advertising was less "in your face" I would happily turn my adblocker off.

Menas

I am an advertisers worst nightmare.
Ad block on the internet devices. Rarely watch live tv- and when we do we mute the adds. When we watch recorded tv we obviously fast forward thru the adds.
I suppose I do buy newspapers so there is some infiltration there...and I pass bye bus stops every now and again.

Harry Palmr

Rather like asking if I feel bad as I flash past the ad breaks watching TV off disk!

Ads are there to be avoided.

That said I never miss Channel 4 drama brought to me by Lexus IS

Dravokivich

My phone is not an advertisement board. I always put adblockers on it.

I use ad blockers on browsers because the size of the media used by advertisement companies impedes my ability to browse.

colossus-x

Haven't been able to sleep since I started blocking them such is the guilt I'm burdened with everyday and night. All those poor innocent little adds I've viciously and mercilessly blocked. Will never get those ads back. No idea how I'm gonna make it up. I hope in my next life I won't be so callous.

suicide_circus

The day youtube figures out how to circumvent adblock is the day I stop using youtube

OneOfThem

Never clicked an internet ad before I had an ad blocker. Haven't clicked one since I've had one. Nothing has changed for any website I visit. Why on earth would I feel guilty?

Menas

Worst I ever saw was Angry birds, the free version on android.
Ads would run in the middle of a gameplay. The popped up in the game every 120 seconds no matter what you were doing. And that is on top of the banner ads...
My four year old loves that game so we ended up just buying an ad free version of the game.

kylith

suicide_circus wrote: »

The day youtube figures out how to circumvent adblock is the day I stop using youtube

I wouldn't mind them so much if Youtube would stop showing the same fcking ad over and over again. I became so enraged after the same unskippable fcking vevo (?) came on for the umpteenth time that hour that I've stopped watching youtube on my phone at all and have gone back to my mp3 player.

BBDBB

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I only installed an adblocker on reading this thread. Brilliant. 6 adverts blocked on this page alone.

I have no qualms about using it.

moc moc a moc

Menas wrote: »

My four year old loves that game so we ended up just buying an ad free version of the game.

You let the terrorists win.

Diabhal Beag

Losing internet monies should make website owners more prepared for when the Web implodes due to solar flares destroying technology and the humble google ad. So no, basically, I'm helping them.

jaymcg91

The reason one may feel guilty is because websites like this exist because they are able to pay the costs of running it through advertising - and users who ad block are inadvertently destroying the viability of websites that are free to use.

All that being said - I use ad block .

J. Marston

I use it but not to stick it to advertising companies, I just can't handle cluttered websites.

MonkieSocks

Don't Click This!

wylie

MonkieSocks wrote: »

Don't Click This!

Sneaky sneaky what is it......I'm not click bait:pac:

Chain Smoker

Unless I'm mistaken, a lot of regular Web adverts distribute their pay on the basis of click through rates rather than views of the page they're on. A lot of the statistics about lost revenue from adblock fail to account for the fact that the people who install it are going to be among those most averse to traditional advertising methods and therefore significantly less likely to click on it anyway.

I can't stomach youtube without adblock though. it's especially bad in Ireland where they sometimes seem to only have one or two advertisements on rotation, so you get the same thing over and over and over.

TomBtheGoat

I always block ads and no OP, I don't even come close to feeling guilty about it.

The Randy Riverbeast

No, websites with ads which dont annoy me get left alone. If its a video or has sound its gone. The touch version of boards has ads which are very easy to tap on.

gutenberg

Use it without any qualms. When I use any other computer or device which doesn't have it, it just reinforces why I installed it in the first place. Those ads which stop playing when you mute them are particularly infuriating, means you can't escape...

Schwiiing

suicide_circus wrote: »

The day youtube figures out how to circumvent adblock is the day I stop using youtube

Lots of sites have circumvented adblock. Channel 4's on demand site for example. Adblock saves Youtube money by not having to pay it's content creators soI doubt they will be looking at banning it any time soon.

jester77

No problem blocking ads, if the advertisers treated us with respect then they would not have this issue now. Pop-up ads, hover ads, flash ads, auto playing videos and audio. Seriously, what do they expect. Same on mobile, nothing more annoying than interstitial ads.

Kerplunk124

Whatever word the opposite of guilty is, that is what i am

Cienciano

Careful now, Dav has said he'll ban anyone who tell people to install an ad blocker.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95801045&postcount=35
Can see his point, but still have an ad blocker myself.

If linking to another forum in this case is against the rules, can a mod delete the link?

Idjit

Banksy (a graffiti artist) was once quoted with regards to advertisements. In this case he was discussing whether he felt bad when editing advertisements with graffiti to make them into parodies:

"They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."

I think about this rant any time a discussion about the morality of ad block etc comes up. Advertisements (especially the ones online) have driven me away from sites more times than they have been relevant. I feel zero guilt from excluding them from the things I watch/hear/read every day.

OneOfThem

Cienciano wrote: »

Careful now, Dav has said he'll ban anyone who tell people to install an ad blocker.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95801045&postcount=35
Can see his point, but still have an ad blocker myself.

If linking to another forum in this case is against the rules, can a mod delete the link?

Chap says a lot of sh1t tbf, then says completely contradictory sh1t a little later when he's forgotten about the first sh1t. So you're probably grand.

Sir Oxman

wylie wrote: »

Before i installed a advert blocker, i was constantly having to close ad's popping up in new windows, ads floating across the screen and really noisy talking ad's. Total pain in the butt. Specially adults themed adverts popping up unexpectedly:eek:.

Irish indo article http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/news/irish-publishers-set-to-miss-100m-as-adblocking-continues-to-soar-31447140.html

Do you dudes fell guilty about using ad blocking software?

<ad****>nope</ad****>

briany

I agree that users who promote Adblock should be banned. We need a robust base of suckers continuing to fund free content on the web.

No, If I want to buy something I "google" for it, I don't want stuff that I'll never buy or even click on shoved into my face!

_Kaiser_

No don't feel any guilt at all. Most ads are actively irritating (pop-ups, pop-unders, auto-playing ads etc) so I've no qualms in removing them from the content I DO want to see.. particularly on mobile.

I give more than enough money to these various companies without having to put up with stuff like that as well.