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Re:Adblock Plus now sells ads by newscracker on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:18PM (#12489675)
> Ads on sites like Google and Facebook are perfectly fine by me—I just don't want big, animated ads or (more frequently) broken ones which prevent me from reading content.

Honest question - don't the sidebar ads (on the right) on Facebook look ugly and intrusive to you (more so since they also change often)?

Apart from Facebook tracking, I block ads on Facebook because of these too.

Re:Adblock Plus now sells ads by morgante on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:28PM (#12489804)
> Honest question - don't the sidebar ads (on the right) on Facebook look ugly and intrusive to you (more so since they also change often)?

Not at all. I honestly don't even understand how you could think they are.

They're literally just a (static) image and a few lines of text.

Heck, I often even find Facebook ads to be inherently valuable. Most of them are for services I use and like.

Re:Adblock Plus now sells ads by majewsky on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @07:41AM (#12495851)
They aren't very valuable if you are already using and liking the advertised service.