Well, you either do that, or you live with the ads. Reporting them to ioi is the only thing you can really

I'm just reporting al lthe things that have happened to me.  The Gamer Print full page thing happened for about 2 days.  Progressive is an insurance company and those thankfully stopped, though I do see their ads from time to time.  The Evony ads are still here, but when they first came around, they were popping up with extra windows that took over parts of the main page.

I guess next time it happens, I'll take a screenshot.

Also, one of the things I also remember is this 'Gamer XD' video file from I guess the Disney Channel.  Yesterday I believe I remember it redirecting me to a page with just that video on it, forcing me to click a button back to the main page.

Sigh... Disabling AdBlock and FlashBlock for vgchartz.com

Why is my comment extreme? I run a firewall and AV to prevent malware, and I won't be turning either of those off either. On a personal level, my own security is far more important to me than this site and if there's a potential for it to be compromised, I will take measures to prevent that. If that means I'm going to be blocked then so be it, although I'm unsure who gave you the authority to make such a statement.

This, exactly. If there truely was a problem, I would have seen it. I use Windows Vista, with IE8, and Windows Firewall turned off. Yet I've never had most the problems that people have been citing. The only time I saw malware attempts was actually from specific threads, and given that there was a known issue with a malicious sig, and the thread loaded fine later, I feel safe saying that it was the sig that was the problem, not the ads.

To those who are whining about "I didn't agree to X" or "it's my right to use adblock on this site", sorry, you're wrong. As per the terms of use you had to agree to when you signed up for your account, you acknowledged that there may be changes to the terms, and that your continued use of the site indicates agreement with the new terms. And, that there may be a supplemental addition to the terms that supercedes the base terms of service. ioi, the site's owner, has stated that your use of the site is contingent on loading the ads. This alone supercedes the TOS, and by posting in this thread, you have acknowledged that you have read it, and by continuing to do so, agree to this added clause. If you disagree, then your recourse is to stop using the site. It's also seen in other things like credit cards- they could raise your interest for no real reason. But it's not the interest rate I agreed to when I signed up to the card. My continued use of the card, though, would indicate an acceptance of these new rates. (I've actually opted out of new TOS on some of my cards, and they closed them.) It's a similar thing to here.

Some people claim that site views are a way to make money; mind telling me how one can make money with those alone? They may be usable in influencing the price per view of an ad, but that's about it. I obviously don't know all the numbers for this site, so I'm going to use a set of numbers for example purposes only:

Say this site gets 10,000 views per day. But 40% of the userbase blocks ads. This makes the effective audience 6000 viewers. However, rising costs force the site to block access to anyone who blocks ads. Suddenly, the site viewership drops 25%, to 7500 per day. However, the percentage of people viewing ads is UP 25%. Thus, bandwidth costs are reduced by 25%, while at the same time, ad revenue is increased by 25%. Why would this be a bad thing for the site? It would allow us to do more features, expand the staff, and more things that I'm sure are being planned that I'm not privvy to.

That said, yes, I do have a few issues with some of the ads slowing down my computer, but I leave them as-is. I can easily write it off to this computer being 3+ years old, and the fact that Adobe Flash is a piece of shit. (I try to use as few Adobe products as possible because of their poor programming.) I would love to see the site use something else. But, all the flash eventually forces me to crash adobe, and thus renders part of the site unusable, mainly, the scripting parts. (I have to open a new tab to do things like add to my game collection, submit database stuff, alert mods, etc.) And at other times, the ads do prevent a page from completely loading, though I think that may've been an issue with the pop-over that are gone. (Thanks for getting rid of them, BTW. They were the same ad as loaded on the page itself.) However, I do not block ads, nor have I ever, because I know they are what keep the net going around. And I'll be honest- the self-rightous people on this site thinking it's their right to deny the site revenue, despite clearly being a violation of the TOS, is ridiculous. If it were my call, I'd just ban them, and implement the blocker myself. The fact that ioi has been entertaining their, frankly, BS, indicates that he's more tolerant than I.

I have read it. I ain't turning my adblocker off unless you can guarantee your ads are clean. Simple as that. If it means I get banned or blocked then hey ho, off I go. As for this-

You're equating me enforcing my personal security online, (which I have the absolute right to do, regardless of what you may think) with committing a crime? Seriously?

Too many pages to read so sorry if this has already been discussed, but my main issue with ads in general is something that I know many of you longer term users like myself and I'm sure ioi is fully aware of; viruses.

Numerous times THIS site as well as others throughout the interwebz have given users viruses from the ads that are simply pushed through the site by whatever company is used for supplying the ads.

I have in the past been an active donater to this site when the paypal donate button was active, if it were active I'd use it annually.

I have also used the amazon widget to buy products because I knew this site gained funds from it.

But, I will not open my computer up to potentially being attacked by viruses from ads that I would never follow or care about anyways.

No offense taken.

As I said, I have no problems with adverts, but I do have problems with adverts I must interact with. This site has many, many adverts. I already have to be inconvenienced by them (although, if correctly targetted at me, they are far less of an inconvenience). However, if you are telling me that I will also have to deal with pop-ups that crawl onto my screen and cover content, or, worse, take my entire screen and demand I interact with them, then I do have an issue, and I will leave. I have no issues with pop-ups covering existing banners and the like (Kotaku do this frequently, for example), but full-page pop-ups, or the crawling ones really, really annoy, especially if I have to interact with them.

Also, what other select sites do with their adverts does not impact my opinion. I only care about the sites I visit. If I have to interact with adverts to visit your site, I'll simply go elsewhere.

Yes, I know I'm only one man, and I'll be in a minority, but I wouldn't be leaving as a form of protest, I'd be doing it because your site would no longer appeal to me as it once did. The content may interest me here, but I have no desire to click through adverts to access it; and I certainly won't pay to access an advert free version of it. Yes, I'm interested, but I'm not that interested.

Do you plan to ban people who use AdBlocker in the future?

It'll be 1 then, and I'd imagine that'd apply to a lot of other people too. I can't see this ending well, the bad publicity you'd get alone should give you pause for thought.