I hate pachter so knowing that he gets properly annoyed by ad-block makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside for using it.

I disable it on a good few sites I visit now, had it off here for a while but there is an apple app advert which opens up another window with audio... I can't have random audio playing from my PC speakers, just a no-go so have it back on here too.

I use ad block and am feeling like a no-life now :(

I use adblock but if its a site i visit regularly and want to support i and there domain to the ok list thats in adblock.

It can be a great tool without screwing over the content providers you use regularly.

The point is that a ton of quality and content would be lost with the money, your AngryJoes, Rev3s and Totalbiscuits all couldn't do what they do if they didn't make money with this stuff.

Cut out the money and you're left with a very bleak picture and if you actually believe that isn't the case then I can't help but call you naive. Do you really want to go back to the days of teenagers making videos in their bedrooms being the majority of Youtube content? Cause that's what you get when there is no more money involved in the whole business.

Of course there would still be people left that review games but not only would they be far fewer but the reviews would also be of lower quality (as in production value) and we probably would hardly be getting reviews before games actually release.

Annoying commercials were probably some of the reason people gave up cable tv so fast. They have the most generic mass market relevant products with the most annoying lowest common denominator marketing.

Basically the village idiot's money is good too, and people have short attention spans, so you get the loudest, dumbest commercials about people yelling excitedly about toothpaste, or diapers. Who would willingly put themselves through that? I literally get angry trying to watch these things. No matter how many times in a row they play the same diaper commercial I still won't be interested. Maybe I'm too stubborn.

If they gave me the option to choose the commercial content of things I'm actually interested in, they would get valuable market data, plus a more effective ad targeting. But they won't innovate until people force them too.

But what do I know to question someone associated with the great Dorrito King

So what does this bloke do, then

Not being willing to support the people that create content on the internet and actually being proud of that is not an opinion that should be validated with a different answer.

Also btw. Pachter is actually one of the few people that does these videos for free, so acting as if he's being greedy here is just hilarious.

I never signed anything where I agreed to watch 30 seconds of annoying crap every time I open a webpage.

I know I'm being a scumbag by doing what I do. With that said, some ads are just too obnoxious.

No you didn´t, but then you should stick forkes into your eyeholes, because ads are everywhere, no matter where you go, and the day will where websites will charge for usage or block ad blocks. 

You have to realize that you are not just hurting the content creators you are alo ruining it for everybody else.

btw. you can skip most ads after 5 seconds

P.S. Do you know what would happen if your mummy and daddy wouldn´t get paid for the work they do? Well you wouldn´t be here arguing about adblock right now thats for sure.

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