I read I agree business wise it hurts the site and any site, but these software were created for a reason,  I never used to block this site, but as the site became more popular, the ads became more annoying, in your face and just ruin my enjoyment of browsing. I'd rather pay to get an ad free environment then to deal with those ads.

Honestly, I understand your point and as soon as I ......my friend gets a new computer he will be happy to turn off his ad-blocker but at the moment the ads are killing his little old laptop.

I literally *CANNOT* browse VGC on my 5 year old Apple laptop unless I block flash/ads. Most other websites have a reasonable amount of ads and aren't painfully slow with ads enabled. Frankly, I wish there there was a mobile/low bandwidth version of the site to use on my phone as well.

The ads that I see on my home PC are mostly a scam anyways. Mom learns how to whiten teeth at home? Get ripped in 2 weeks? Before/after ads for weight loss with half naked girls? Lingerie models in evony ads? I know you don't have that much control over this stuff but come on, I expect to see this crap in spam emails, not a legitimate website.

I'm sorry. That is all I will say.

I would be ok it just one window would pop up with pub, but a half a dozen of them is pretty annoying.

We block the ads the same way admins block spambots in their websites.

I agree that Evony ads are what got me started.
I will apologize since I don't think I will stop any time soon.

There is a reason why Google comes out on top on web browsers. I know this is not the same thing but still you see what I mean.

Most of these sites including this one I visit for fun and sometimes get other users opinions on games. I do not wish to openly open my self up to ads that may harm my computer to do that. I would just stop going to those sites. I do not find any site I go to except my schools website worth going to if I had to pay. As I can get all the same information elsewhere, and by other means.

It is a bit sad that because of ad views some sites might loose employee's and everything else, but again a lot of people would stop going to them anyways. It is kind of a lose lose situation.

Sorry, the analogy is terrible.  I'm sorry it went over your head.  I mentioned it to the wife and she said it's terrible too and that it's more like not tipping after eating at a restaurant, but what do women know?

My understanding is that even with an ad blocker, there is still a permanent ad on the right and left sides of the screen. Plus, an ad on the top. Additionally, when someone first comes to the site, there is often a full page ad. Also, when someone first comes to the site, there is often a pop up full page ad.

You misunderstand, Gnizmo has a face for radio porn (yes that bad), but nerd shirts in general work.  The best is badass gaming shirts like Gears stuff if you're going for the goth type, I've even seen goth girls with the gear as a tattoo, and something that takes some thought to get, that gets the cute intelligent girls, they read it and comment on how thats cool and you have a good talking point