Adblocking: How about Nah?

Re:Adblocking: How about Nah? by nostrademons on Saturday July 27, 2019 @12:58PM (#20542888)

Yeah, for many years I figured "Let the website owners make money, I get to use their service for free anyway, and I can always mentally tune the ads out."

And then sometime around 2015 or 2016, I started noticing ads that would lock up my CPU, or get my laptop's fan running, or prevent the page from loading entirely, or increase page loading time by 10x. And then I decided enough was enough, and installed an adblocker.

It's not the general concept of advertising that I object to. It's when the advertising makes the content that I initially came to see unusable. Fix your goddamn Javascript and maybe I won't block you, although at this point I'm kinda enjoying the ad-free experience.

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Re:Adblocking: How about Nah? by afiori on Saturday July 27, 2019 @05:39PM (#20544357)

For me the moment was when some websites started putting popup ads in every single link and navigation.

I a specific instance there was no way to use the site, every link would redirect directly without opening the correct page at all.

I literally needed an ad-blocker to be able to use the website.

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Re:Adblocking: How about Nah? by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday July 27, 2019 @06:11PM (#20544556)

The uh, seedier parts of the web never stopped using popups it seems.

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Re:Adblocking: How about Nah? by _archon_ on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:15AM (#20553705)

When referring to popups from such websites, you're not pronouncing it correctly if you're not wiggling your eyebrows.

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