| rocketpig said:
You may think you're being cute by easily being able to block ads but overall, it just hurts everyone. Blocking ads leads to more obnoxious attempts to FORCE you to watch an ad (hey, who doesn't love splash ad pages?) instead of being able to more easily integrate them into a site. Remember that you're riding on the backs of people who do a shitload of hard work to give you a place to roam on the interwebz. Don't so easily cast off what is probably their only source of revenue to give you your playground that you so enjoy. |
+1.
Unobtrusive ads that help support the websites I love visiting without hurting my browsing experience are great.
The ability to decide what ads I want to see and not see with extensions like Adblock/Adthwart is also great.
| rocketpig said:
As for Flash, I don't hate the program; in fact, I use it on a regular basis. But I use it SPARINGLY. It's a resource hog and has its place on the web and probably always will but people over-use it and too often butcher sites where a nice little javascript would fill the need much more cleanly. |
Powerful javascript libraries like jquery, mootools, and prototype kill pretty much all non-canned flash apps.
