Do you feel guilty about using Ad Block Programs.

wylie · 14-08-2015 04:15PM #1

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 · 14-08-2015 04:16PM

No

Wacker The Attacker · 14-08-2015 04:16PM

only if it stops porn

brevity · 14-08-2015 04:18PM

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

josephryan1989 · 14-08-2015 04:18PM

Why would I feel guilty????

Mesrine65 · 14-08-2015 04:20PM

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

K4t · 14-08-2015 04:20PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:21PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:26PM

Not even a teeny weenie bit.

blastman · 14-08-2015 04:26PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:28PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:28PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:30PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:34PM

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

How much can adverts actually add to the page size:

adblocks.jpg

:eek:

hardCopy · 14-08-2015 04:35PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:38PM

Absolutely. Why dafuq would I feel guilty?

syklops · 14-08-2015 04:41PM

"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 · 14-08-2015 04:46PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:49PM

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 · 14-08-2015 04:51PM

nope, and I never have.

Rosie Rant · 14-08-2015 05:12PM

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 · 14-08-2015 05:24PM

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 · 14-08-2015 05:39PM

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 · 14-08-2015 05:45PM

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 · 14-08-2015 05:46PM

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 · 14-08-2015 06:09PM

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

OneOfThem · 14-08-2015 06:49PM

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 · 14-08-2015 06:51PM

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 · 14-08-2015 06:58PM

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.

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-08-2015 07:04PM

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

I have no qualms about using it.

Do you feel guilty about using Ad Block Programs.

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