77% of adblock users feel guilty

It honestly doesn't even pass my mind

Using an adblocker is not something people desire, but it's necessary.

If their website is so great then maybe they should paywall it rather than forcing people to download malware/resource waste on their machines.

ads are dangerous, slow, distracting, and invasive
i have not and would never click on one

no i don't feel guilty, use a donation button if you want people to support your otherwise-free site

1 in 3, according to the latest SJW polls. Stare rape and fart rape are great concerns.

I don't use an adblocker because I want my fellow devs to get paid.

literal propoganda

Paywalls are not the way to go, because the second you put up a paywall you i) cut your userbase down by some percentage, and ii) bring user growth to a screeching halt.

then too bad, get a real job instead of being a glorified shill

this

I'm in advertising, and even I use uBlock.

So you're saying its not worth for people to directly pay in order to access that website... So why would we pay you by viewing ads?

>more ads than content
>retarded popups literally every click
>flashing banners infested with malware trying to scam you
>all that crap making the page unusable

Oh no, how come people are blocking that shit

It's their own fault, if the ads weren't retarded and annoying I wouldn't care. I don't mind something like 4chin ads or google's text ads.

>Friend sends you an article
>"Its actually well written and researched"
>Open it why the fuck not
>scroll to get past ad
>ad gets stuck
>bottom of page

gud

fuck ads

one thing that annoys the fuck out of me almost as much as ads are Newsletter Popups.

If I go to a website and it darkens the screen and shows a SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER ENTER YOUR EMAIL NOW***!!!! :))))"

"***to be shared with our wonderful 3rd party partners ;)"

I vow to never again visit the site

I'm not going to believe shit from a blog that is just trying to influence it's own readers into removing ad-block

Since even popular sites get served ads by shitty servers i think ill continue blocking all ads.

>guilty of what?

A little, I wish ads weren't so aggressive.
I would be happy to have ads if they weren't getting in the way of my life.

I whitelist a handful of sites that have useful content I use regularly and that don't have intrusive ads. Fuck everybody else.

>visit website
>anti-adblock script
>install anti-anti-adbloćk
>continue browsing
>mfw

No because I choose what runs on my machine.

I just recently reinstalled my browser and forgot to grab ublock as part of my extension reinstalls.

It took me less than 5 minutes of browsing before I was getting those popup "OK" text box ads and url hijacks that gladly reminded me to get ublock.

I feel no guilt, fuck your malware shit.

Content creators need to fuck off and stop being so damn greedy with their alternate donation systems. Sites wanting $5/month for their ad-free donation tiers? FUCK OFF, I could visit your website 200 times a day for 5 years and you'd still not make $5 off my clicks alone, let alone per month.

Watching my flatmate swiftly disassemble features of a website that piss him off is always a laugh.
Most people it would be to much bother but he gets it done in seconds.

The exaggeration in these threads always makes me smile. You know most of you faggots only go on Cred Forums, YouTube, and Stack Overflow. The only time you are in any actual "danger" with ads is on shitty free porn sites.

Most of the sites normies go on have their ads hosted by Google, who bans accounts without hesitation.

Basically, just admit you use it because your tired of having to wait 30 seconds to listen to an album rip on YouTube. It's not like anybody here actually cares or is taking a fucking poll.

youtube has ads?

Normies type in shit like "watch movies FREE online"
FREE music
FREE youtube downloader
These are buzz words for virus creators.

this

it's more like
>77% of Cred Forums users feel guilty
nobody fucking cares

literally any other site that you didn't list immediately pull the microsoft tech support shit

Maybe back in 2008. There's a streaming service for all of that which normies share each other's accounts for.

I don't feel guilty at all, actually. I don't even feel guilty blocking so called "unobtrusive" ads, or ads on my favorite websites.

I whitelist every website I enjoy and visit regularly.

Random/One time websites get blocked

I mainly stick to Cred Forums because despite its reputation you don't come here and then leave with your neggyhole pozzed up.

Cred Forums is a free porn site.

>an album rip on YouTube
I had a physical negative reaction to this.

>Actually using Stack Overflow
ishygddt

I block all ads on all websites I visit, indiscriminately.

No, because I whitelist sites that have acceptable amounts/implementation of advertising (like Cred Forums.) Ergo, I don't feel guilty at all for blocking ads on sites that use pop-ups, 30-second unskippable videos, or PopAds.

I use ublock

I actively take pleasure in knowing that websites aren't making money off of me in exchange for their shit content. I would keep running full adblock for every website even if the ads were reasonable, unintrusive, and not a path for malware.

Webmasters can either put their information online as a labour of love (like how it was back in the early 90's when the internet was good) or create a product that's worth purchasing for money.

What's a neggyhole??

This. I don't give a shit how good a site is, I'm not exposing myself to tracking and malware for anybody.

hell yes

i whitelisted homestuck once

I don't. Been using it ever since these ads with yelling smileys appeared.
youtube.com/watch?v=9a3VzJQeCso

Nice. My favorites were the interactive ones like "shoot the ducks" or "blow up the enemy tank" that didn't open a link until you actually won.

77% of adblock users are cucks

HIV negative.
Guess what pozzed up means.

Oh that shit is disgusting, also an honorable mention should go to putting related article links in the middle of an article instead at the bottom.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

no

>chris aljoudi
>chris the jude
>uBlock creator
no, he's the guy who tried to steal it from based gorhill so hey could make money off it

>Basically, just admit you use it because your tired of having to wait 30 seconds to listen to an album rip on YouTube. It's not like anybody here actually cares or is taking a fucking poll.
I've been using adblockers since I was 10, does youtube really do this? What the fuck?

What's with the new "opening Chrome PDF viewer" box popup/ ad shit? It's freaky.

thats like feeling bad for putting a "no soliciting" sign on your door.

people are fucking retarded.

HERE IN MY GARAAAGE

Except they don't. I see these things literally every day.

>huffingtonpost.com

Who takes this e-rag seriously?

>243 random users of the ad blocking program Goodblock
Nice sample you fucktard.

I refuse to believe there are people stupid enough to not know YouTube has advertisements.

Have you never used a YouTube app on another device? Did you miss all of the YouTube Red discussion about it not having ads? Did you not realize Google owns both YouTube and the largest online advertising platform ever? Have you never seen a video or thread about a "YouTuber" complaining about blocking advertisements on their videos?

>Have you never used a YouTube app on another device?
No, I only use my PC

>Did you miss all of the YouTube Red discussion about it not having ads?
I legitimately don't even know what YouTube Red is

>Did you not realize Google owns both YouTube and the largest online advertising platform ever?
I do realize Google owns YouTube, I just didn't think they'd be jewish enough to actually make you watch an advertisement before every video

>Have you never seen a video or thread about a "YouTuber" complaining about blocking advertisements on their videos?
No, I don't follow “YouTuber” culture. The only youtube videos I watch are scientific stuff, conference proceedings, lectures and the occasional nerd disassembling a radio or something

>77% Guilty about blocking ads
How many SJWs are there?

>I do realize Google owns YouTube, I just didn't think they'd be jewish enough to actually make you watch an advertisement before every video

This is discussed on literally ever botnet thread on Cred Forums, which is pretty much every thread on Cred Forums.

My nigga. You have the right to adblock and piracy, don't let the jews and misinformed tell you otherwise.

>Unless you whitelist
Unless you purchase the products advertised, they aren't going to make any money out of you at all. Therefore the money they're not getting out of me is a tiny fraction of the money I'm saving.

according to this article, at least 187

If that's true then it should be easy for you to link me to a single other example of a currently live post that mentions this fact. Could you do that to back up your argument?

No and i never will. Fuck off cancer ass company's. Also fuck the malware/virus from ads.

My favorite thing back when I didn't use adblock was getting a 30 second - 1 minute advertisement for even a 15 second video. The Judaism is out of control.

>no i don't feel guilty, use a donation button if you want people to support your otherwise-free site
That works extremely poorly. Also people who have to donate to strangers usually start nitpicking in order to convince themselves they dont have to donate/donate less.

Why didn't you use advertisements before? And how old are you?

Ad blockers have been around since before youtube existed

Donations only work if you're popular.

lol no

also, this

I do, but I really don't want some shitty company trying to sell me their garbage when I can just find it when I want to.

>2013
>Web content can magically put and run executables on your computer without your explicit action.

Okay dude. I'm sorry you feel like a dumbass for ruining your computer by downloading and running penis_enlarger.exe that one time but you gotta stop blaming the internet for you being an idiot.

>Have you never used a YouTube app on another device?
i use only browsers and youtube-dl to access youtube, and i have used adblockers for many years, longer than i have used youtube
>Did you miss all of the YouTube Red discussion about it not having ads?
isn't that an unrelated porn site?
>Did you not realize Google owns both YouTube and the largest online advertising platform ever?
yea, but google web search is just sponsored results, which youtube also has (i think? don't really look out for that kind of thing)
>Have you never seen a video or thread about a "YouTuber" complaining about blocking advertisements on their videos?
no, i don't read youtube comments

company's what?

I know that, but I never got into adblockers till about 5 years ago. First thing I thought was why didn't I get one sooner.

ads are only profitable if you're popular

>ads
>trackers
>multiple pages so they can serve more adds
>clickbait titles to keep you clicking
>ad in middle of article
>related stuff halfway or taking up a lot of space to keep you reading
>ads that roll open automatically
>ads that play a video
>sound ads
>popups

>Not knowing what a drive-by download is
Cred Forums, please leave.

>use script blocker
>there are like 20 things
>have to test which script is necessary to get the page working and which fuck you up
its like trying to disarm a bomb by cutting wires

>>this article says you feel guilty

>tfw I don't at all
I also install ad blockers for other people to prevent them from getting malware

>someone shows me something on their computer
>watch as shitty internet spends most of the time loading ads
>"i can get rid of those ads if you like"
>"HOLY SHIT REALLY?"
>install ublock
>reload the page
>"HOLY FUCK WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS SOONER?"

here you go fucker

i just donate to small sites

No. I even feel vindicated when I visit shitty sites. I'm a complete load to them. I eat bandwidth and don't offer anything in return.

>someone shows me something on their computer
>watch as shitty internet spends most of the time loading ads
>"i can get rid of those ads if you like"
>"nah i don't mind them"
Every fucking time

That post doesn't specifically mention the fact that ads play before the video starts

The way I read that post, it just implies ads in general, e.g. banners and side column ads.

a couple have said that as well, but a few were amazed

...

>ads play before the video starts
what, like a video ad?

I don't feel guilty, but I am sad about the situation.

I have to deny revenue to sites I use if I want to browse safely and privately.

The only right answer

I'm talking about the 30 second ads that apparently show up before you want to watch something

Why? If the website is worth keeping alive, donate. If not, who gives a shit?

>great content

where

haven't run into that, sounds terrible

I get this on most videos with adblock plus + adaway but the YouTube app just works

ublock with firefox works for me.

I think that ads are a mutual agreement based on trust. You agree to accept minor distractions while viewing the content and in exchange they agree to be modest and careful about it so as to not hurt the user experience more than necessary

I use AdBlock only because on many sites it has become a NECESSITY. Try reading Forbes without it. Your article occupies a 200px by 50px square in the center of the screen and it's surrounded by 30 banners.

If they respected their viewers I wouldn't use it, but they abuse ads and show no respect. Therefore I don't respect their revenues.

I actively turn it off on sites that I want to support.

Why don't you disable it and find out.

It works. Thanks bro. I forgot why I stopped using unlock

I dicked that up but cheers anyway

> he fell for the 8GB RAM meme

>huffpo
these are the same people who feel guilty about slavery

1. I use multiple different ad blockers in succession (privoxy, hosts, qutebrowser's blockers, cosmetic filter stylesheets, etc.), disabling them all would be tedious

2. Even if I did disable them all, I'm using a fairly minimalistic browser which has no support for stuff like HTML5 video, flash or other bloatware

>Friend ask about computer problem
>ah no worries you just have to download this file
>Go to cloud storage site
>No ad block
>Fucking DOWNLOAD NOW buttons all over the place
>Ad buttons are identical to the actual download button
>Click accidentally on a shitty ad, a zillion popups spawn and engulf the screen
>Ends up taking 15 minutes to get a 1 minute download

How do people deal with this shit?

>Friend

This and

>Go to cloud storage site
>Free Download: 1Kbps (Approx. 8 Hours)
>Premium Download: 10Gbps (Approx. 1 Minute)

>ad.fly

If anybody here has ever posted a link using this, I just want you to know that I hate you

1 minute at 10 Gbps would put the file at 600 Gb in size, which means a 1 kbps connection would need 600000000 seconds = 19 years

>back when i had dialup
>"free download (limit 56k)"
ok
>nowadays with shitty 10mbps broadband
>"free download (limit 1MB/s)"
ok

>Not being a rebel and taking the 19 year option
Fucking casuals

Not in the slightest. Also stop making adblock=evil threads every fucking day, we won't ever stop using them

>1% every 70 days
easy

I once torrented a game over the course of an entire month

Best wait ever, game did not disappoint. (SWkotOR II)

Nope

When I use websites that I like I whitelist them, currently my whitelist is three entries long

if i felt guilty I wouldn't have the addon installed you jew

It's really a shame how so many normies are so accustomed to viewing ads that they don't even care about it anymore. I was once like that, until I realized just how much time and sanity adblock has saved me.

I'm offended that advertisers feel they have some right to fill my head with their mental pollution. With fear, guilt, want, anxiety, envy, and even hatred. Who the fuck do these people think they are?

donating sucks it is not viable

>listen to an album rip on YouTube

for what purpose

>scan QR code
>type in amount
>hit “send bitcoins”
wow so hard

Running ads hosted by third parties is an open act of hostility towards your userbase and should absolutely never be tolerated.

There's clickbait websites that show you a list of related articles instead of the article you clicked on, with a link to the article you clicked on on top, just in case the list can suggest something more distracting to you before you get the content you actually came for. it's a real game of putting you into subconscious browsing mode.

That is one handsome woman

Fuck no. Why should i feel guilty not wanting fucking ads anywhere, which i wouldn't click anyways?

I refuse to believe there are people stupid enough to not know when they are getting baited.

I pay for an internet connection which is capped. Ads use my bandwidth without my consent. I don't pay for ads. The argument "but TV has ads" doesn't fly, because TV is free. If internet was 100% free with 1Gbps connection, then I wouldn't have a problem with ads, I could live it.

Came to post this

>Do you?

of fucking course not

>huffing tons of paint
Why does anyone ever listen to this shitrag?

Adblock is a normie tier adblocker anyway, if you want actual results you'd ask uBlock users.

>77% of men feel guilty for not being cucked

This

>Have you never used a YouTube app on another device?
Yes, but I block ads on my phone too.

>Did you miss all of the YouTube Red discussion about it not having ads?
Yes

>Did you not realize Google owns both YouTube and the largest online advertising platform ever?
Same as >Have you never seen a video or thread about a "YouTuber" complaining about blocking advertisements on their videos?
No, I don't subscribe to cancer channels (aka reviews/gayming)

Pic related.

Why would I feel bad about protecting myself from a malware vector?

Hell no

Here's the real source.
slideshare.net/AlexGroth1/goodblock-2016-report-on-ad-blocking
Pay particular attention to slides 2 and 3

If any good anons could post the relevant slides, would be great.
I'm on mobile and simple can't be arsed

My thoughts exactly.

"We put up with advertising, which is intrusive and distracting and makes every experience worse. Opt out: Stop watching advertising. Block it. Don’t participate in things that are ad-supported. Yes, that means that good publishers will have to find other ways to support themselves."

I block all ads, zero guilt. I try not to use services that rely on advertising. Instead, I choose alternatives that provide value without getting the idea that they should make a quick dollar off their customers. I donate monthly to products and services that I use. Thankfully, most of them only accept donations.

Being back in college around many people, I heard the radio for the first time in over a year. LITERALLY several minutes straight of nonstop advertising. Like what the fuck. Disgusting. I am glad I don't participate in this game.

Ha, 77% my ass. How can a journalist site like huffpo report on this shit while making money off of ads, and expect anyone with even a tiny brain to believe their horseshit claims? They've lost what little credibility they had in the first place.

this wreaks of the jews.

They get money for just listing them, plus compensation for views and clicks. Purchases don't factor in.

This.

you can block YouTube ads on phone too you know.

On Cred Forums, yes, anywhere else is just an annoyance.

>B-b-but guys! Snowden said ads were a threat to your privacy and security!!

>the huff post
>lying on the internet
business as usual gentlement

>adblock
That's why it's 77%. Now count ublock users.

>posting anime
>still being a manchild in 2016

I installed adblock on every PC that came through the shop for 5 years. I became a hero for figuring out the ultimate antivirus.

I also killed the business because people weren't coming back with viruses ever.

the fuck should I?

I hope all ad-supported websites crash and burn and we can finally go back to the 90s internet without all the corporate bullshit that we have now, but I guess that's a pipe dream by now. I can only do my part by blocking fucking everything and encouraging everyone else to do so as well.

...

No, I'm a selfish piece of shit and I know it.

The web is a pull medium, not a push. So I'm not blocking ads, I merely choose to not pull them.
Why would I feel bad?

>normies don't watch porn
if they say they don't they're likely into zoo, pedo, bdsm, interracial gay, etc porn

but 99% of gorhill users don't, user

>77% of adblock users have autism

Good thing I'm a part of the 33%

>not part of the 77%
>part of the 33%
learn 2 count faggot

>huffpost

The reality is simply that they don't want to have to be in your presence any longer than necessary, not that they like adds.

[spoiler]jk user love you[/spoiler]

>Do you?
hell no fuck them

>huffingcyanide post
In other words, not a shred of guilt, as long as websites are using intrusive and/or malicious ads.

Yes goyim, remember the starving ""content creators"" you are robbing.

Clear conscience here.

>are in any actual "danger" with ads is on shitty free porn sites
Remember the time Cred Forums run malware ads? Remember forbes?

>YouTube app
I don't do such things.

This.

It has been proven time and time again that if your content is actually appreciated and you put up something like patreon or paypal or some other thing where people can straight give you money, you will get money. And plenty of it.

People whining about adblockers either aren't investigating better funding models or they are scared that people don't actually value their content at all so they won't get any money through those other models.

Ad revenue is peanuts and should be peanuts when you can get money for someone literally looking at your page for one second.

>I once torrented a game over the course of an entire month
Forgetting the ED2K times this easily, are we, user?

this, most of the youtubers i watch are utter cancer i dont want to give ad revenue to

>77% of adblock users feel guilty
>adblock user
>didn't get any surveys related to that subject

Yeah that's bullsh--

>huffpo

Oh ok no need to point it out. We need another hulk hogan for those faggots.

Every few months. Then I try to watch a Youtube video or try to download a file and see 5-6 fake download buttons, at which point my regret magically dissipates. Then I remind myself that if your primary source of revenue your life depends on comes from advertising, you're a retard.

looks like the huffington post made a bullshit article to get you disabling that adblock.also fuck jimmy wales, donation begging cunt. if he put like one banner at the top everyone would be fine with it and he'd make fuckloads of money. also fuck captchas and google in general

>surveys are sent to everyone!
It's not a fucking census.

Then don't make it 77% of adblock users but 77% of adblock users who are willing to participate. Fuck do these niggas know bout me.

I've been using adblock plus since 2006 and switched to ublock (origin) in 2015. no i don't feel guilty. I feel powerful

>getting mad over statistics

>encouraging patreon paywalls

What people should do is finally stop treating the internet as a full time job. Get an actual job and boom, problem solved. You can afford to pay those 20 bucks a month to host your blog. There's a reason why a mention of getting a real job triggers all the e-beggars.

I don't have a problem paying for stuff, but I'm not going to pay even a dollar a month to watch someone's youtube videos. If every channel I'm subscribed to did that, I'd have to pay 70 bucks monthly. Fuck that. Producing "content" has never been a problem for anybody before crowdfunding and ad revenue became big buzzwords. Why is it a problem now? Oh, that's right, you can get ez money from begging online and making up reasons why you can't make shit anymore unless people pay you.

FUCK NO!!!

No, I don't.
Adverts are deliberately programmed to be annoying.
>"this thing constantly flipping through 5 different adverts annoys me"
>"but it lets me select a specific one from a list"
>"maybe it'll stop changing every 1.5 seconds if I do that"
>select one
>several seconds later it starts changing by itself again
>WHY
>I'VE CLEARLY ACKNOWLEDGED THE ADVERT
>BUT IT STILL BEHAVES AS ANNOYINGLY AS POSSIBLE

I feel as guilty as the people who create the ads that cause people to use adblock.

Not at all.

besides, I directly contribute to the people I like via patreon. Ad supported business can go fuck themselves, get a real business model and plan you parasites.

>feel guilty
I feel nothing

lol cucks

Sometimes I kinda do when I block a good website, but I'd rather not get spammed with shitty ads that start playing sound by themselves. Choose your ads better please.

I have nothing against using patreon to supply special content to those who donate so long as the core content remains free.

pffffffft.
fucking normies.
I remember when you had to walk to the internet uphill and through a blizzard, BOTH ways.
Ads
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

one page worth of ads nowadays wouldve filled my entire hdd back in my day, if the kikes don't like our ad blocking, they can geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet out

>What people should do is finally stop treating the internet as a full time job.

That's fucking stupid. When I get home from working all day, I want my favourite content creators to have made things for me to watch in the evening. That is practically impossible if they don't work full time on it, and I have the money and will to pay for it. So why shouldn't this happen?

besides, "the internet" creates trillions of dollars of revenue. To say people shouldn't treat it as a full time job is just naive or moronic, pick your preference.

wasnt the huffington post the site that made you disable your adblocker so you can read their articles and then infected like half their reader base with malware through ads?

probably, but that wasnt the most serious infection you got from that place

No regretties

Why would I? Advertisers should feel guilty for forcing their virus ridden cancer down our throats.

>That is practically impossible if they don't work full time on it
That's what they want you to believe

Go back to 2006/2007 when youtube became popular and mass donations/crowdfunding were unheard of. Nobody had a problem making content for you to enjoy AND having a job at the same time. Some channels used to do it less frequently, sure, but it's not like it was for the worse. At least they weren't completely burned out like they are now from the necessity of making a video a week to satisfy their "patreons".

>besides, "the internet" creates trillions of dollars of revenue. To say people shouldn't treat it as a full time job is just naive or moronic
So making a couple videos on youtube or writing "journalistic" articles is a full time job to you? Sounds more like a hobby to me.

Yes I feel terrible for not wanting malware on my computer.

No, fuck all of them.

No one that sells out their customers to advertisers is innocent, no fucking one.

Frankly, I didn't watch shit back in 2006/2007 on Youtube and most of what I did watch were just recordings or video uploads with basically no editing involved.

The average quality of production has increased dramatically so I don't think it is entirely fair to compare like that. People could shit out low quality videos to save time but most peoples' expectations are higher now.

Lolno

reminder that every time you solve a reCAPTCHA you're working for free and essentially paying Google and Gookmoot.

I wonder what percentage of adblock users also avoid answering questionnaires.

I actively leak pre seminal fluid at the thought of costing advertisers time and money .

most content creators worth their salt don't make much if anything from ads, they make money off donations, subscriptions, paywall stuff, etc. and it has nothing to do with adblock, ad rev has been going down for years because it's so saturated and companies have realized how ineffective 90% of it is.

Production quality may have increased, but that didn't necessarily translate to better videos

Besides, take technology then and now. It used to be really expensive to get a proper camcorder back then so people used webcams or whatever cheap thing they could get their hands on. Now you buy any phone and can record decent videos with it. HD camcorders are pretty cheap, too. It's entirely fair to compare then and now.

Lastly, nobody gives a fuck about production quality. You think people watch pewdiepie because his videos are in 4K resolution and recorded in a sound-proofed studio? They watch him because he uses clickbait titles and does le funny facecam screams.

> my computer
> my internet I pay for
> feeling guilty for declining to run invasive ad software on my computer

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

people are mentally ill if they feel guilt over this

Absolutely not. I would feel more guilty for not blocking them, as I would knowingly open my system up to tracking and malware distribution.

Fuck no, I had adblockers installed since day 1 on every device I own, haven't seen an AD for years

nope, advertisers trashed TV and radio and polluted the sides of highways for miles, i am not about to let them trash my PC with advertising too, fuck em, i dont owe them anything

Yes.

Brought to you by Intel Xpoint.

>huffingtonpost
Tumblr-tier journalism.

Unrequested online ads get blocked because they:

- are in the form of popups
- have sound
- use flashy animation
- use distracting colours
- contain questionable content
- contain malware
- take up bandwidth
- take up too much space on a page

Fix your advertising style, or get blocked. Very simple.

>Gladly, an adtech startup, surveyed 243 random users of the ad blocking program Goodblock.

Huffpost again showing how retarded they are.

>Once a day, our buddy Tad the butterfly will appear on the corner of your screen. To raise money for charity, click on him to view your one ad for the day.
What the fuck is this shit and why do people even look past ublock?

I do. Adblock is a terrible resource hog nowadays. Ublock is kinda better in that regard.

>surveyed 243 random users
Wow, what a HUGE pool of subjects!

Go watch a few a DefCon/BlackHat talks. Get a Calendar too while you're at it

fpbp

So question here. How do you survey a ad-blocking user? After you detect the block
>you display survey through ad stream
>you use the content to track down an IP and find people
>you embed your survey in the content, but then why wouldn't you do that with the ad and adblocker wouldn't work

I am out of guesses that make little sense.

HAHAHAHAHA!
what a bunch of cucks
where does this statistic come from? Sweden? Or USA?

I had 2 people like that, but after some time I saw them installing adblock anyway.
they were too shy to admit it, and then when you are gone they research it and install it anyway

>huffington post
>surveyed 243 random users
>Wow, what a HUGE pool of subjects!

Really? How he fuck is this newsworthy? Fuck this gay earth.

Lol nope.

>i have no idea what a drive by attack is
>please kill me, I'm such a dumb faggot

no i feel good about it and i have prevented companies taking ~900$(just divide ur ublock count/1000) from my pc.Also i am not a beta cuck like OP pic

Put me down as 23%

Fuck you. I feel guilty for putting adds on my sites and apps.

No. I don't feel guilty at all.

>Being guilty for being imposed ad's
>Being guilty because someone wanted to monetize internet space
>Being guilty because the ad meme became a thing back in 2001.

Damm people have gotten really stupid after all these years or maybe it's just these last 2 generations.

THIS. And some sites show them EVERY TIME!

has anyone had problems with adblock? dosn't even block the ads on twitch anymore

No.

I block ads on my phone, my pcs, and my router.

Oh god how can I feel guilt when I see that Internet become like Tv with ad everywhere
I'm proud to use adblock ( actually Ublock Origin )

>t. I don't know what flash 0days are

/thread

The internet was not developed as a tool to distribute malware and market spam

Nothing of value is lost by killing these parasites

Sounds like the average adobe employee.

Huffington is British i believe. One of those trendy alt-news sites.

This. Why feel guilty?

I don't feel guilty about using adblock.
I love the delicious tears of Americans whining about muh ad revenue, muh well deserved income

It's certainly Anglo

It's scaring me how something as tacky as ad-based revenue has essentially become the internet business model.
Google and Microsoft are inhaling that shit like liquid diamonds.
Maybe I've gotten older but Jesus, anyone remember when browsing websites was y'know, a pleasure, full of wonder?
Now it's become a chore. Ads ram-hogging and clustering the page feels like strangulation, it's a mean-spirited corporate tactic designed to bait you into paid-services.
Literally fuck the internet

fpbp
fucking this
btfo
/thread

Why not just install an ad-blocker and stay away from clickbait sites?

No. And even when I do see the occasional, non-obnoxious "we wish you wouldn't block our ads" message and act on it, the web page turns into that TV from idiocracy. I use pastebin constantly so I thought it would be prudent to unblock ads, and then I was bombarded with four simultaneous videos on each cardinal direction of the screen.

>turn off everything once for a website
>it loads slow as shit

Fuck no. I don't really care if I see ads. But when they're doing some heavy shit in the background, then they can go fuck themselves.

Big companies sell user profiles for money
People who need to get a job rely on page ads

>enabling flash

Oh shit Pa/g/eets what are you doing

Not at all, fuck capitalism. Down with the system

fuck no

fuck the jew cunts who wrote this article

Why should I feel even a the slightest pang of guilt for blocking ads?

isnt it 1 in 5 experience sexual assault, not rape? no dicky dicky action just some feely feely?

>sexual assault
You mean like looking at them for more than 3 seconds?

>muh real jerbs
that's just a spook

Why would I feel bad about blocking shit that doesn't respect my privacy, infects my computer with malware and forces websites to censor content it doesn't want to be associated with?

If anything I wish blocking their shit hurt them more than it does.

I know loads of people who do.
Half the people I know refuse to use them!
Why have all British men become puffs!
Piss of you wet arses!

Charge for it then. OH nobody will pay? I'm sorry.

Cable television isn't free and still has ads.

>still not knowing what a drive-by download is
Please, get out:

Guilty of what? Not allowing certain bits of data on their computer?

The only mistake here is reading any article from huffington post.

I honestly feel pain when I browse any website on my mobile and it's literally unusable due to ads.
Fuck webdevs and site owners

/thread

>guilty

A feeling? What is that?

I for one have no love for this consumerist capitalist hellscape.

fpbp

Fuck to the No

If you don't torrent porn, then you have to use ad ridden websites that are 50% adverts. I'd rather be able to jerk off to the porn I want without being stopped page change about some dumb scam.
Then there's doing the same thing on an android and it's 10 times fucking worse.

I felt guilty, then I found out what I was truly blocking.

Most of the online content I view is user generated, and hosted through donations. Or it's made by a company to increase the utility of their product.

Allow me to communicate my feelings via a "reaction image" to save time.

Obvious bait to make you feel bad so you can uninstall your adblock so shittingtonpost can collect their revenue through ads. Best to ignore lads

says the guy posting his opinion on a website only available through capitalism, on a machine that's the same case.
Know what you're giving up, faggot.

fpbp
/thread

Maybe things would be different if they didn't choose partners distributing malaware and advertise for scams. Fuck them and they're wife son.

I only block:
iframes
plugins
pop-anythings
videos on non-video sites
audio on non-audio sites.
JS-abusing ads (stalking JS shit, shit that eats CPU out the ass, etc.)
High FPS GIFs. (anything over 5FPS)
Flashy "LOOK AT ME" GIFs.
Entire websites that abuse multiple pages for articles and advertisements EVERYWHERE. (fuck that shit so much)
Everything else is fine with me.

The problem is my preferences aren't the preferences that these "trusted ad networks" are pushing.
I tend to view my preferences are fairer for everyone.

Of course, abusive advertisers want everything they can get, so will try to compromise as little as possible.
Nope. Never. Fuck you cunts.
Newspapers don't try to rape my eyes and ears with nice, simple text and picture ads.
I even read a few of them and occasionally use some of them.
So am I hell letting you.

This. Fuck ads.

WELL SHIT NOW I DO BECAUSE I SEE A VALUE THAT MISREPRESENTS NUMBERS. Guys, I'm sorry for being white as well.

No shit, the second I went to a site that did the instant video streaming with audio I learned about blocking ads. Also, when I go to a site and see 157 blocked, that should tell you something... But yeah, sorry some sites ruined ads for you, I am not going to check every site and see if you are cool or not.

Kek. First they fuck your internet experience with shitty invasive and dangerous ads. Now they want you to feel bad and apologize like the good goyim you are.

>feeling guilty for not asking for something I that I do not want
Damn right, son.

Can't really add anything to this.

I felt guilty for being ignorant for so long after diacovering ad blockers

Nah, I'm fine.