We need to go deeper

If they can find a way to monetize content without lowering the user experience, I'm down. I stopped watching TV because of the commercials. I'm not gonna stand for them on the internet. Adblock wouldn't exist if there wasn't a reason for it to.

Honestly, if video ads weren't a thing, I probably wouldn't have installed adblock in the first place.

Regular ads on sites don't bother me one bit, but video ads, no thank you.

Less intrusive and annoying ads = money. Annoying ads = people trying to block them and less people see them so less money. A lot of gaming sites are horrible about ads though. My laptop hates those wiki sites.

It's cat and mouse and trying to guilt people into watching ads is a joke. They will keep making them, and we will keep dodging them. It's just the way of things lol

The problem with it is that when more and more people adopt adblockers (It's growing at a near 100% rate per year, and the total revenue losses created by adblockers by now are in the dozens of billions) content providers on the internet make less and less money, but seeing as how people are very often reluctant to pay for using internet services (besides to your actual ISP lol), and we don't want to see ads either, it's really hard to find a good solution. Just think about all the great things on the internet supported by ads; Google, Youtube, Facebook, newspapers, etc.

What other way to monetize those services without making the end user pay is there?

So at least disable adblock for domains on the internet that you like.

I refuse to disable adblock on any site that supports flash based ads, or simply has some asinine amount like six or seven ads on a single page. I get you want ad revenue, but good god I shouldn't have to wade through a minefield of ads to click on actual content. Especially when browsing on my laptop, I tend to use my trackpad when in bed and I accidentally click on a lot of things because of the whole left click on tap thing trackpads tend to do. I accidentally click enough ads on my phone (where video ads can really go to hell); I don't need to give accidental ad clicks from my laptop too.

As it stands, most sites I've seen have already adopted ways to bypass adblockers if they really want to. I've been on some porn sites that shuffle the ad domain by mixing it with their own domain so that the ads can't be automatically blocked. A site I use that organizes streaming links for movies and shows redirects the main tab whenever you click a video link that opens in a new tab. One site I use to watch anime, boy I hope they never figure out things like that, because I lost the ability to use their site on mobile due to pages constantly redirecting to Google Play Store ads.

I don't mind non-intrusive advertising, but the moment you start redirecting my pages, we have a problem. The moment there are almost as many ads on the page as actual content, we have a problem. The moment you think having ads with sound and flash ads in general is a good idea, we have the worst problem of all. I don't even bother testing the waters with most sites, as so many have gotten so desperate, it's an absolute minefield if you want to actually support a given website.

just use this site without an ad blocker and you will know that it is a solution.

Continue everyone!