>ads become obnoxious
>making sounds
>autoplaying videos
>cover up half the screen with a timer that doesn't let you close it
>people start to just block ads
>ad companies solution isn't to make their ads less intrusive
>it's to make pages unviewable with ad blockers
>website now gets less traffic and needs more ads to survive
How are people this dumb to see what the real problem is?
>Ads equal revenue
If your content is worth revenue then put it behind paywall, otherwise you can fuck off.
>t. exoclick employee
literally who?
> I use a hosts file :^)
yeah, sure, I'll disable uB0 for (You)
Get ready for Monero miners on every web page. Its the future.
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What is no script
Something the overwhelming majority of people don't know about.
I don't block ads. I block spyware trackers.
Every site owner can host ads on his domain and I'll see them.
That's what 'ad blockers' do.
They will once it inevitably becomes a feature of most ad blockers in the future.
Stallman tried to warn you about the dangers of non-free JS. He tried to prevent this. Why couldn't you listen. It hasn't just started, IT'S HAPPENING.
Normies will either be totally unaware, or they will approve of it, since it will allow them to get unobstructed content for free. There is no escaping the inevitable.
This is the future consumerists chose.
And now we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine will bleed to death. It didn't need to end like this- the normies only would have to listen....
>letting ads run code on your computers so website jews can make more shekels
dont think so, BLOCKED
I have the right not to be advertised to.
I stopped using an adblocker. If a website has annoying ads or ads that make my laptop fan kick in, I just never visit that website again.
fpbp
most websites would be better off filtering people who don't want to pay for them, anyways.
I have the right not to be advertised to and if I want to block ads I'll do it.
Websites did this to themselves by making ads more intrusive and annoying instead of just cutting back on the size. People blocked ads so now they do this full screen shit that you have to click out of after waiting 10 seconds. It's annoying and unnecessary.
Stop forcing your shit ads on people and they'll be more likely to not block you. But instead they try to fight fire with fire and show you MORE ads
>paywall
I don't want to make an account on each news page I scroll through
Besides
> ads are tracking
> please let me make an account to view your content
The problem is that you continue to visit the website after blocking the ads.
That's just an invitation for an arms race.
We need to fork the internet, go back to HTML 4.0 and build on that. HTML5 was a mistake.
Normies should not be allowed to use the internet or computers desu
>gee, why don't these people let us install literal malware on their computers in the form of "ads"
>must be those damn entitled cis white males
an arms race that you cannot win
If it comes to principles war, attackers WILL fuck your unsecured ports up, WILL find vulnerabilities in your sad excuse for a content delivery system and WILL ALWAYS fuck your site up in new ways given the will to do so, no matter how many millions other users will act passively, it only takes one motehrfucker to blow it all up.
The ad industry is literally a cancer on GDP and bottomless pit of money
It's why I advise against investing in Google or Facebook, eventually the companies will wake up and stop buying their ads. Ebay already did its study on Google adwords and rekt them, how Google is still in business I have no idea.
>website starts playing video ads with sound
>every fucking tab you open of the site starts playing the video
>make a thread in the forum about it but the mods delete it
>block ads
>2 years later
>webite asking users to stop using adblock
>think to myself I'm using the side a lot so it'd be fair for them to make some money and they've surely learned from their mistakes
>one week after unblocking them the video ads start again
Fuck ads. I will never, EVER stop blocking ads.
>video ads
>video ads with sound
basically an big flag for never returning to the site
don't give a fuck about normal banner ads. video? sound? fuck right off.
I also love that it follows you around the page as you read the article and doesn't pause or stop when you click pause or the X button. Thankfully it's normally only shitty "journalism" sites like cnet and news sites that do this, nothing of value lost by never going back, really.
Blocking access to web if you have as blocker is illegal in europe
> trusting the jew media ever
you're lucky a jap owns this site now
We need to go back to the 90s when only smart people browsed the internet and all the rural and suburban retards were confined to AOL.
There was a point, long ago, maybe 12 years ago, where most websites I used to visit on a regular basis didn't have many ads or anything that could be considered intrusive enough to give a shit about it.
Later on ad blockers were there, but at that point I didn't think they would be necessary either. -Then- more popular websites started becoming a little bit obnoxious about it. But if this is going to be a thing about "you did this first" well, I don't want to defend advertising too much, but adblocking for websites with a tiny ad on the side was some bullshit. Just like with many things, with the whole piracy "argument", it's many people asking to get DLC out, no microtransactions, better games, cheaper games, demos, no DRM, more and more changes back so you can buy it, but that shit is still going to be pirated, and they're still going to make money with their poor practices as well if they don't take that feedback. You're asking companies to just keep it to a minimum but still many people are going to use adblockers just because they can, there's no incentive not to, and if they do not take the feedback it's not like they're going to die tomorrow either.
nth post best post.
So why are (((you))) here?
Well honestly if websites implemented this in a tasteful way, asking you in a non obtrusive prompt to accept or decline. I'd be fine with them doing it, I run sites on the background and if they use it moderately, and didn't include any ads on their sites. this could be a win-win situation.
But like OP said, people running these sites are fucking retarded as stones.
>didn't fix "adds"
Saw this pop up on a porn site.
Removed noscript permission, and fixed.
>adds
Stop running unethical ads and then you can cry about people using ad blockers.
jewtube, jewgle, and the website my (((school))) makes me use for the courses are all mining shit on my machine. Load up their site and it maxes off all cores
I run a YouTube channel and it's my primary source of income.
YouTube is literally unusable without an adblocker. I would *never* go on yt without ublock origin. It's fucking horrific. Most sites are.
I can't tell my subscribers that, but it's absolutely 100% true. Browsing the internet without an adblocker is like driving a car without a windshield.
Just make web pages entirely with HTML compliant code.