Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ...
by ekimekim on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:50PM
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I don't mind ads in sidebars, banner ads, etc. I whitelist my adblocker and there's only three reasons I've ever blocked a site:
* The ad prevented me from getting to the content (popup modals, youtube preroll ads)
* The ad made noise (I've recently started using an autoplay-blocker which is on by default and helps with this, as well as annoying autoplay videos that aren't ads)
* The ad massively slowed down or crashed the page (for some reason, wikia seems to be particularly bad for this). This is much less common now that I have flash disabled by default.
* The ad prevented me from getting to the content (popup modals, youtube preroll ads)
* The ad made noise (I've recently started using an autoplay-blocker which is on by default and helps with this, as well as annoying autoplay videos that aren't ads)
* The ad massively slowed down or crashed the page (for some reason, wikia seems to be particularly bad for this). This is much less common now that I have flash disabled by default.