I would not wish that on anyone. lol

It takes a very "special" kind of person to enjoy that particular website.

This is what I see now. I think this is more than enough advertising.

DethLord here. Why ban me?

My points were valid. Granted I may have gone a little overboard with my choice of language but sugar coating it does not make it taste any better.

Why delete my legitimate posts?

Better yet, why leave my original post in someone else quote?

I know you'll ban this account too but if this is what this site is coming too I really don't care.

if sites didnt use pop up ads, adult ads or excessive ads i wouldnt use my adblocker
but since most do, thats why i use mine, but i do make exceptions for sites i trust.

also

no offense, but isnt copying and pasting articles hurting sites too?

I dont understand why this is a topic... if you want the sites IP (numbers, news, forum access) then you have to pay since it costs money and time produce. Ads are a convenient way to have a third party pay for these costs.

Blocking ads is a pretty douche-ish behavior as you reap all the benefit an screw over those who provide the content.

Great article Ars...per usual. :)

I only block sites that use ads that force the user to click on something so they can read the articles (Hehe my ad is going to cover up what your reading so you HAVE TO look at it to find the close button thats so small you might miss....)

Since this one does not, I wont block your ads.

Ok so I haven't really used an adblocker before, but lately this website has been loading really slowly for me. It is even worse when I have multiple tabs open. I use google chrome btw. I really don't mind the ads that much as I understand why they are needed. The adblock that I am using only blocks a couple of the ads which has greatly increased the speed of the website loading. The gamerprint background and the blur header are still there. It looks like I have only blocked two ads on the homepage and they are the one that is above the numbers chart and then the one to the left of the most popular games. And its not the speed of my internet that is making the site loading slow as I have 4Mb/s and no other website is slow at all. My laptop is about 4 years old and I believe that it is the main problem as it is older. Sorry for the rambling, but these are my observations.

Oh, well, since you see no problem with it I guess it must be ok.  Who are you again?  Seriously, I'm taking my advice from someone I know and trust rather than an anonymous internet guy.  Sorry.

Here's a decent argument to ars technica and this general idea of ad blockers.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100306/1649198451.shtml

I believe it's been mentioned, but I think it deserves to be repeated. A lot of articles get quoted in their entirety in these forums, along with some "They don't deserve the hits" comment regarding the lack of a link. Other times the link is included, but what's the point with the whole article re-posted? Seems this carries with it at worst copyright issues with some content, but at least at a minimum this breaks the "intent" of the internet: to drive traffic to various content.

You're perfectly within your rights to request users not use adblockers, and within your rights to enforce that policy. But you might clean up your own forums a bit first, before insinuating that others are not good web citizens.