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Do you feel guilty about using Ad Block Programs.

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  • #32
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    jaymcg91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭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 ;).


  • #35
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,349 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


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


  • #36
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Don't Click This!

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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  • #37
    wylie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭wylie


    MonkieSocks wrote: »
    Don't Click This!


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


  • #38
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    TomBtheGoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TomBtheGoat


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


  • #40
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    gutenberg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭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...


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  • #42
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,733 ✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #44
    Kerplunk124
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭Kerplunk124


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


  • #45
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,133 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #46
    Idjit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    OneOfThem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭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****>


  • #49
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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!


  • #51
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,254 ✭✭✭✭_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.


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,001 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Have used ad blockers for years, I have recently changed from Adblock plus to uBlock origin. The company that owns Adblock plus, eyeo, has grown into a sizeable company, what I don't agree with is their 'acceptable ads' program that lets advertisers meet some rules, pay them to whitelist their ads, it is opt in for users but I wouldn't be surprised if it changes to opt out or no choice in the future.


  • #53
    Dimithy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Dimithy


    I pretty much have it disabled on any site I use regularly. These websites provide me with hours of entertainment, and information, for free.

    Maybe I'm just lucky, or people are exaggerating, but as far as I can see the days of pop ads and the likes are long gone from the vast majority of good quality sites.


  • #54
    yellowlabrador
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭yellowlabrador


    There's talk of a premium version of Youtube coming out soon. A lot of youtube 'stars' are now promoting and advertising products in their videos. I think that encouraging people to think they can have a youtube career is a bit crazy. It will be interesting to see how many people will be willing to pay for an ad free youtube service.


  • #55
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    K4t wrote: »
    No, and this part only reinforced my lack of guilt.
    I don't feel guilty about it either, though I allow ads on some sites I use a lot. But why do you feel less guilty about it because it takes money from people who have built something up from scratch on their own?


  • #56
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,651 ✭✭✭Infini


    Been blocking em by default for years simply because theyve been used in the past to launch viruses from so all adds are blocked by default.


  • #57
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    But how does one know that there pc can be scanned for viruses for free. :pac:


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have already found that some sites refuse to allow you to go beyond the first page or so if you have an ad blocker in place, I simply look elsewhere.
    Their choice to force ads onto browsers, my choice to go elsewhere.


  • #59
    BeardySi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭BeardySi


    cisk wrote: »
    Have used ad blockers for years, I have recently changed from Adblock plus to uBlock origin. The company that owns Adblock plus, eyeo, has grown into a sizeable company, what I don't agree with is their 'acceptable ads' program that lets advertisers meet some rules, pay them to whitelist their ads, it is opt in for users but I wouldn't be surprised if it changes to opt out or no choice in the future.


    So you stopped using it because you don't agree with a decision you think they might make in the future? :confused:


    No guilt whatsoever. I very rarely allow ads, and only then for sites I use regularly and want to support. I don't think I've ever actually clicked on an internet ad.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,001 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Treadhead wrote: »
    So you stopped using it because you don't agree with a decision you think they might make in the future? :confused:


    No guilt whatsoever. I very rarely allow ads, and only then for sites I use regularly and want to support. I don't think I've ever actually clicked on an internet ad.

    Pretty much, I don't agree with them making a business out of it. The other blocker is donation based, it's also more efficient on cpu and memory usuage.


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  • #61
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,254 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Thinking more about it, I wouldn't say it's a big deal anyway TBH.. for every tech-savvy user with an Ad Blocker there's probably 10 using the default IE browser their machine came with or vanilla Chrome because they haven't any idea you can install plug-ins


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