Do you see ads on the internet?

eth0 · 09-10-2012 09:07PM #1

Inspired by the thread earlier on. Don't see em myself but if I was using a different computer it would soon bother me and I'd have to install the famous adblock.

Before anyone accuses me of putting people out of a job the odd time I do use another computer I'd click on a few before I'd install adblock - does more good for the site than spending the whole year looking at them and not clicking. Also have the supposedly 'non-intrusive' ones disabled, Google can go fuck themselves as they are probably worse than the rest with all their datamining although the ads themselves might not be the worst.

super_furry · 09-10-2012 09:08PM

Never really bothered by them unless they hijack my speakers.

bnt · 09-10-2012 09:14PM

Not on my main computers, but I was using an Android tablet to read Boards the other day, so there were ads every few posts. A thread on blood donation mentioned the ban on donation by homosexuals - naturally - so the ads were for STD Screening and Hairy Gay Men. So I will not apologise for using ad-blockers every chance I get. :rolleyes:

Arpa · 09-10-2012 09:17PM

By clicking on the ads you're not really doing the site owner any good as they have to pay per click. So unless you're interested in actually buying something from the site, would be better not to click it. Pop ups can be annoying but the ads at the side of the search results don't really bother me. Just think if there weren't ads there we'd be paying for searches.

Mr. Boo · 09-10-2012 09:20PM

They just don't register with me. I don't need adblockers cause I don't see em. Same with ad breaks on tv, I never know what any of them are for cause I tune out completely.

zenno · 09-10-2012 09:21PM

Good ole kaspersky anti-add banner makes sure i see no adds, who want's them and this is why i dumped my TV 2 years ago, damn adverts.

eth0 · 09-10-2012 09:21PM

Arpa wrote: »

By clicking on the ads you're not really doing the site owner any good as they have to pay per click. So unless you're interested in actually buying something from the site, would be better not to click it. Pop ups can be annoying but the ads at the side of the search results don't really bother me. Just think if there weren't ads there we'd be paying for searches.

I'd be doing good to the owner of the site displaying the ads. Also the ads I click on would be usually for a crowd I'd rather see out of business.

We wouldn't be paying for searches. Some distributed peer to peer thing would take over.

starbelgrade · 09-10-2012 09:22PM

I only installed adblock quite recently when Boards decided that it was a good idea to start putting adverts in the middle of threads.

RoundyMooney · 09-10-2012 09:25PM

zenno wrote: »

Good ole kaspersky anti-add banner makes sure i see no adds, who want's them and this is why i dumped my TV 2 years ago, damn adverts.

I record everything now. The only place I don't find adverts overly intrusive is, unusually, the radio.

The way I see it is, I pay channel subscriptions and a Tubridy license, so they can take a running jump after that.

Arpa · 09-10-2012 09:29PM

eth0 wrote: »

I'd be doing good to the owner of the site displaying the ads. Also the ads I click on would be usually for a crowd I'd rather see out of business.

We wouldn't be paying for searches. Some distributed peer to peer thing would take over.

But you'd only be costing the site owner money by clicking on their ad. They only pay Google when the ad is clicked. Better to ignore it unless you are interested in buying something.

It is likely that some other search engine would spring but none of them could compare to Google. Do you know how many people would love to get their hands on the process that Google uses for searches? We would go back to the days of Yahoo, AOL, Alta Vista and the likes. Would not be a good thing. Put up with the ads, they're easy to ignore when you've seen them all all your life.

BrokenArrows · 09-10-2012 09:30PM

Not really.

It came up in discusion with a friend a while back that Facebook had ads. I disagreed at first until I thought about it.

tomtherobot · 09-10-2012 09:30PM

I see dead people.

akura · 09-10-2012 09:31PM

Adblock FTW!!!!!!

kingtiger · 09-10-2012 09:32PM

after reinstalling a PC

1st Chrome
2nd Adblock
3rd Flashblock

finished

garv123 · 09-10-2012 09:33PM

I taught advertising on boards between posts was just when you're not signed in but i noticed lately it says "advertisement" under some posts but ive ad block so no ad appears. Youtube was gone very bad lately with ads on the side of the page talking through videos so thats only when I downloaded adblock. Didnt bother me until then.

eth0 · 09-10-2012 09:33PM

Arpa wrote: »

But you'd only be costing the site owner money by clicking on their ad. They only pay Google when the ad is clicked. Better to ignore it unless you are interested in buying something.

It is likely that some other search engine would spring but none of them could compare to Google. Do you know how many people would love to get their hands on the process that Google uses for searches? We would go back to the days of Yahoo, AOL, Alta Vista and the likes. Would not be a good thing. Put up with the ads, they're easy to ignore when you've seen them all all your life.

Ordinary sites that show google ads don't get paid per click anymore?

Not too worried about search engines going to shoite, won't be long before they'd improve. A lot of this stuff is known already, just a very hard market to break into in the absence of a 'power vacuum'

B.A._Baracus · 09-10-2012 09:36PM

I dont even see the boards.ie ads until someone mentions them. I just instinctively scoll by them when reading a thread.

Shryke · 09-10-2012 09:36PM

Adblock for years. Nobody should ever apologise for blocking ****ing advertisements. Disgusting bastarding/brainwashing things. Even when you're aware of an add the repetition of seeing it has proven to influence a persons choice. There's a lot of despicable crap behind ads. I'd personally like to see more regulation and far less public space given to them.

Akrasia · 09-10-2012 09:44PM

Shryke wrote: »

Adblock for years. Nobody should ever apologise for blocking ****ing advertisements. Disgusting bastarding/brainwashing things. Even when you're aware of an add the repetition of seeing it has proven to influence a persons choice. There's a lot of despicable crap behind ads. I'd personally like to see more regulation and far less public space given to them.

Ads dont have any effect on me... Doo do dooo doo do do... Thats it, you people have stood in my way long enough, i'm going to clown college

zef · 09-10-2012 10:08PM

I hate ads, specially the talking ones!
Noticed youtube really upping the ante with them recently, did my head in then i found out about adblock plus-yaaaay- , just got 'do not track plus' there today, running here on boards it says
"1 ad network tracking you: 1 blocked
3 companies tracking you: 3 blocked"

I only got rid of the ads in the past month, didn't realise you could do it so easily!

iamstop · 09-10-2012 10:28PM

zef wrote: »

just got 'do not track plus' there today, running here on boards it says
"1 ad network tracking you: 1 blocked
3 companies tracking you: 3 blocked"

I only got rid of the ads in the past month, didn't realise you could do it so easily!

I use ghostry. Blocks most things you want blocked and blocks tracking. Very occasionally it blocks things you want to see but it's easy to turn them on on a one time basis.

admiralofthefleet · 09-10-2012 10:34PM

i have been using adblock plus for years now, i dont even see ads on boards

shedweller · 09-10-2012 10:44PM

It's only a matter of time when websites won't work unless you have ads enabled. Or some nonsense to that effect.
I block ads wherever possible. So much so that whenever i do watch tv i get really annoyed at the ads every 10 minutes. Or is it 15? Either way they are fecking annoying as hell!
Anyway, there are people paid to research this stuff and figure out ways to get ads out there in our faces.

One of them probably started this threa...:eek:

GLaDOS · 09-10-2012 10:45PM

I use adblock, but keep it disabled on some sites I like to support (including boards)

09-10-2012 10:51PM

Ads really only get to me if they interfere with what I'm doing or distract me (such as unskippable ads before videos, or Flash banner ads with sound). I tried using ABP for a while but noticed that some sites blocked me from going in unless I turned it off. So I didn't bother with it after that. However I do have the AdBlockVideo plugin installed to block ads on YouTube, as these really do interfere with what I'm doing.

eth0 · 09-10-2012 11:04PM

Karsini wrote: »

Ads really only get to me if they interfere with what I'm doing or distract me (such as unskippable ads before videos, or Flash banner ads with sound). I tried using ABP for a while but noticed that some sites blocked me from going in unless I turned it off. So I didn't bother with it after that. However I do have the AdBlockVideo plugin installed to block ads on YouTube, as these really do interfere with what I'm doing.

which site blocks it?

RADIUS · 09-10-2012 11:08PM

Use simple Adblock as it blocks all ads. The original Adblock actually shows some ads from advertisers that pay them.

09-10-2012 11:10PM

eth0 wrote: »

which site blocks it?

I can't remember to be honest but I did come across a few. I do remember that OkCupid popped up messages such as "There used to be an ad here" and lecturing on why ads shouldn't be blocked.

bob the bob · 09-10-2012 11:12PM

adblock plus all the way. including on my phone. mobile Firefox plus adblock plus. <br />
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mobile internet is slow enough without downloading all those tacky irrelevant ads.

PizzamanIRL · 09-10-2012 11:13PM

They're there but I don't see them.

NegativeCreep · 09-10-2012 11:20PM

Yup I see them. They don't bother me in the slightest. I guess I'm just used to them now. I've never clicked on one though cause I've never seen anything worthwhile advertised on the net.

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