| pokoko said: The reason for the rise of AdBlock isn't because of ads, it's because of obnoxious advertising practices. If something is only mildly intrusive then people won't spend energy circumventing it. When it gets to downright annoying or even frustrating for the audience, then the fault falls directly on the heads of those who made it so. Content providers need to look at the situation and understand that the real problem isn't AdBlock, it's intrusive ads that lead to people going out and downloading AdBlock or even avoiding their websites altogether. I will tell you now that I would not visit VGC if I could not block the ads. Having multiple video ads PLAYING AT THE SAME TIME is fucking annoying. Likewise, I stopped visiting NFL.com because every single time I would check on a score, a video ad would play. VGC is actually the reason I finally went out an downloaded AdBlock in the first place. |
Hey, me too. I resisted getting adblock for a long, long time until VGC started crashing Firefox with every other page i clicked through because the flash ads would just overload the browser.
Now i'm a touch addicted to how much more smoothly websites run, which should say something about the majority of ads: clumsy, flash-based garbage that just occupies CPU cycles and very rarely mean anything to me anyway. Right now i'm on a school computer and have one of those idiotic "ridiculously easy trick" ads telling me something about car insurance, something i have no interest in switching.
Now, anilinkz.com is filled with lots of ads, but they, for instance, have a "watch mode" button that will eliminate everything but the background banner. Having made that concession for us, i return the favor by disabling adblock.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
