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Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide by zeta0134 on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:28PM (#13563901)
As a user of AdBlock, unless it's a site I desperately need to function (there aren't very many of these), having it be broken with AdBlock turned on clues me in that something shady is going on. I'm more likely to simply leave and never come back.

Note here that I'm not against certain kinds of advertising, and I'm all for subscription models and donation incentives and a great many other ways to fund sites. But third party advertising networks have forever lost my trust, and I simply won't tolerate the security risk nor the annoyance any longer. Your site is welcome to require me to disable AdBlock, and that's fine. I don't need to read your posts that badly anyway.

Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:41PM (#13563994)
> having it be broken with AdBlock turned on clues me in that something shady is going on

The "something shady" is AdBlock muscling their way into the ad revenue game using you as a way to bludgeon the sites serving the ads. Under no circumstance should an ad blocker prevent the site from working as expected; that's the purview of the site itself.

Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide by JetSpiegel on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:21PM (#13564244)
By that argument, people using IE6 are also "bludgeoning the sites serving the ads"?
Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:23PM (#13564251)
Yes.
Re:Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide by CaptSpify on Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:40PM (#13569240)
Sites can easily design themselves to work well without ads. In fact, it takes more effort to make your site break if ads aren't working.