How does Sup Forums justify adblocking?

How does Sup Forums justify adblocking?

Because I can.

* Bandwidth cap. (Sucks, I know). Won't be using it on ads.
* Avoids a known attack vector.
* Helps put click bait sites out of business faster.
* Privacy. No tracking.

I don't block ads I simply don't request them.

How does Sup Forums justify not adblocking?

Once ads became an attack vector the entire industry was compromised.

Antivirus software keeps you safe from threats that were released ten days ago. Adblocking software keeps you safe from threats that were released ten second ago.

Fuck off, tripshitting retard.

I pay a shitload for my internet and I have a cap.

I wouldnt have a problem if they were billboard ads like on Sup Forums, but they just fuck it up. I just wanted to have a good experience browsing the internet, not my browser coming to a crawl because they want to show me an ad that takes up the whole page with animation.

Call me entitled all you want, but its there fault in the first place for doing this shit. They can go fuck themselves, dont blame me

>Because I can.

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Some of Sup Forums's ads have been reported to have malware in them I would consider blocking them here as well.

Information should be free

Bait and popup ads are shitty business practices and shouldn't be legal. They also track your history so they can """"personalize your advertisements"""" Mozilla Firefox + uBlock Origin + DuckDuckGo is the best combination.

That image makes no sense. Half the shit applies to left-wing fedora tippers.

They got so butt blasted they tried to flip the script but it failed horribly

And we don't need to edit Ben Zyklon cartoons anymore. He is one of us now.

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My computer, my choice

If by fedora tippers you mean brogressive atheists, they're not really left-wing. They just pretend to be progressive for attention.

I only activate it on sites that try to abuse me. Sup Forums for example, is very subtle, so I don't use it. Jewtube is an advertising hell, so I block it.

This, and less clutter/more space for real content. Less distracting in the case of dynamic ads. Mostly no popups, no shit sliding in and out, and saves time watching videos without 30 second ads all the time. Is there any reason not to block ads?

basically malware
with the shady sites I visit, going without adblock is just fucking your computer up, senpai

Malware and eardrum-breaking audio at 4 am.

i keep getting those bullshit pop-up advertisements from some wanker company named Provider. It always makes every webpage I go to unusable with ads for dumb shit like "picture frames", and "Lawn Estimators" blocking every part of the page

But I think ads are still downloaded but not shown.

never seen malware on this site
90% of the ads just go to jlist

Maybe the two sides aren't so different after all.

>muh horseshoe

ads are cancer, I won't whitelist any sites ever. If a website ask me to turn off adblock to continu browsing, I won't go there anymore.

>brogressive

I don't like them either, but that sounds like a word a numale on Twitter would use

That wasn't his point........

They're not.

i don't like ads
they are annoying
they are an attack vector

>I'm an oldfag I've been there all week.jpg

I can almost hear and feel the asshurt that went into making that image, seriously

I haven't seen any malware yet, but I have had ads on Sup Forums redirect me to porn twice already without even clicking them.

>first wave feminist

Must be a really old picture.

A lot of desperate asshurt went into it, yes. The whole picture is supposed to be a tautology. If you think SJWs are fucking loonies, then you MUST BE this thing in picture. There are no other choices.

I don't believe ads as we know them are a good method of advertising anymore.
After being exposed to adblocker and using the internet in general my eyes have opened to the truth that ads are pretty annoying.
It's difficult to go back to tv and watch something with 5 minutes of ads every 15 minutes.
Sometimes when I don't have adblocker and whatever I'm doing is interrupted by an ad I'll just give up doing that thing rather than sit through the ad.
I'm less likely to buy what was advertised because the intrusive nature of ads put a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm confident that so many people feel the same, more people are using adblocker than ever before and perhaps the solution for companies is not to fight the adblocker but to find a different way to advertise their product that doesn't involve shoving it down peoples throats. And ad that makes someone less likely to buy something than before they saw the ad is not a good ad.

>justify adblocking
>justify
Only weenies justify it, other people just block them and don't give a second thought, because who gives a shit.

Same with torrenting and pirating. #YOLO motherfucker.

A lot of things should be free, user. But they aren't because that's not how the economy works.

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I just really hate ads
ads ruin everything

They trigger my autism.

For ten billionth time:

The actual click/view is worthless. Totally completely worthless. The scale ad companies pay out is based on internal figures for what % impressions lead to sale.

Blocking ads is no different than allowing them and just not buying the products and services they advertise.

People who think their retarded reasons justify using the content but removing the monetization model are just delusional. I honestly think yolo is a better argument than muhh attack vector, which happens one in a million years, and muhh cookies, while every social media button, youtube video and what not of the same company places them.

can't fucking stand adds

Not to mention the clickbate argument. The future or (unblockable) advertising will be sponored content. Clickbate wont go anywhere but will just get bigger. You already see advertorial news articles and product reviews popping up.

I also use adblockers. Simply to speed the loading of websites up. When I disable the adblocker I dont even see the ads because I've become banner blind.

There's no such thing as ad-blocking. Anybody who views ads does so because they actively requested them. I choose not to request them, and I use software to help me avoid requesting them by accident.

>You already see advertorial news articles and product reviews popping up.
These are as old as advertising though. They were much more common in print media in the last half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, they just kinda fell out of fashion for a while.

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As long as they put privacy stripping features into their ads, I will keep blocking them.

Fuck js.

>tfw one of these pictures is literally me

I don't have to justify shit

I don't want to see them.

Because the ads on exhentai are broken and won't let you view content without one.

Better question is how do you justify ads? If you can't afford a site, don't. You're not entitled to anybody's money.

because it's not the content that I requested

>Better question is how do you justify ads?
...freedom?

I want to avoid malware, popups, tracking and exploits.

>Putting your face online.
ISHYGDDT

Depends on your blocking software, but generally, they're not even downloaded

Capitalism is for cucks who want to be on the bottom rung of a hierarchy. Therefore, as an strong man, I avoid becoming cucked of my bandwidth by ads.

If ad is embedded to the page, it's hidden, otherwise it's not downloaded.

Fuckoff trip fag

I tried to play nice and whitelist "good" sites, I was repaid with a Teslacrypt infection that ate half my hard drive while I was doing housework.

The computer is a personal device in my house and I should be allowed to block any incoming data I wish.

i dont like ads

1) Online advertising has long been a medium for malware delivery and advertising companies have let us down time and time again in preventing malware entering their advertising systems. They cannot be trusted and they have little liability when they do end up serving malware.

2) Online advertising has a shitty model. In other media an advertiser will pay a content provider up front to get adverts placed with their content. They know that only a small portion of the viewership will act on the adverts but they see that as worth the investment. They cheat website owners by only paying by clicks, purchases and, rarely, views. Adverts in web content is the least profitable form of advertising income from a content providers point of view and they shouldn't buy into it. The only people who make the money are companies like Google who are paid up front. You don't see Google blocking people with adblockers, do you?

3) I have a right to determine what connections my computer makes. We all have a firewall installed which does exactly this. You could set up your adblocking rules in your firewall if you wanted and it would function exactly like hosts file based blocking. You cannot tell me that adblocking is unethical when we are allowed to use firewalls.

i would rather pay for quality content than be brainwashed

>It's difficult to go back to tv and watch something with 5 minutes of ads every 15 minutes.
I literally don't care. I watch TV, listen to radio with ads and don't care.
They are far less annoying than web ads, they are generally at fairly predefined intervals and you can always use the time to do something, grab some snacks in the middle of a show or hit the john.

Web advertising is just shit though. Sometimes you have to scroll down on a page to reach the first line of an article because of three banner ads, or an inwindow popup obscures all the content until you close it. I personally hate the banner ads that run down the sides of the webpage because often I change focus to something else and go to click into the window and the areas that look safe would then take me off to some shitty ad domain.

Ads on the web are way more annoying than in TV/radio/print.

This. Repeated and consistent malware. They poisoned the well too many times: ad networks can't stop serving that shit.

So fuck 'em, and fuck every site that relies on 'em.

Long-term, I'm guessing the web will have trouble surviving in a truly meaningful way as a platform. I'm in the long, long process of building what I hope will be a reasonable successor by the time it's done: something vastly more survivable in the face of mass censorship, mass surveillance, paywalls and the national balkanisation ("not available in this country" bullshit) of the web. Both search, and content filtering, are not an external element but are built right in to the UA: so is a privacy-protecting identity system, if you need any identity at all on a site.

Making money is not a priority in that plan. Some people are going to find it a rough transition: plenty of business models won't make it, but that's not my problem.

Ad funded content evolves to be crap because there are no standard for success except "get views/clicks"

Volunteer content > Paywall/subscription > forum posts > dogshit > ad-funded crap

I don't block ads I don't know

Flash is absolute shit and adblocking keeps me safe.

Most of the time I'm not the target group so ads are annoying and distracting. Also: LTE is still expensive and I refuse to pay for something I did not order nor like.

Uses less bandwidth, increase security, improve visual appearance of websites, don;t get subjected to literal shilling, and I have the right to control what code gets executed on my machine.

Even if the above wasn't true and there was literally NO benefit to using adblockers, I would STILL use it just to make sure I'm doing my part to put clickbait sites to out of business. If your website isn't something made out of love/as a hobby or you aren't offering anything of value to point where your business relies on ads, then fuck off.

I only wish there was some browser extension that could detect articles/content that is just shilling a product and block those too.

“Ad-blocker”

When the purpose of some program is to block advertisements, “ad-blocker” is a good term for it. However, the GNU browser IceCat blocks advertisements that track the user as consequence of broader measures to prevent surveillance by web sites. This is not an “ad-blocker,” this is surveillance protection.

Fuck ads.

Let's see. I don't like ads so I block them. It's justified.

I only block ads after I see them and click them

95% of internet content is clickbait copypasta and doesn't deserve to earn any money

>Because I can.
>I don't block ads I simply don't request them.
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>Some of Sup Forums's ads have been reported to have malware in them I would consider blocking them here as well.
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>Blocking ads is no different than allowing them and just not buying the products and services they advertise.

I can't believe there are people this retarded

>I wish ilived in V for Vendetta

Isn't that movie filled with pro-left political statements?

How do you justify ads that pop-up into your face?

By shady sites do you mean Club Penguin?

I'm not blocking ads, I am simply just not requesting them from the server