>"I'm not blocking ads, I just choose not to request them."
>"The internet is a pull medium."
just let me put the malware in you're hard drive already
Hey Anon. Yeah, you, posting the fedora pepe to try and make fun of us adblockers...
Thank you. Thank you for turning on ads so the rest of us don't have to. Do us all a favor and continue doing that.
In the mean time, I and the rest of /g/ are just going to continue blocking ads on every site. After all, people like you, who feel guilty about not supporting the websites they visit are just going to continue to view the ads, so we have no reason to. The bills are still going to get paid with or without our contribution.
Try not to get viruses. We'd hate to have you join us after realizing that advertisements are a common vector for distributing malware, and are now being used to distribute malware to mobile users.
Why does everyone try to justify adblocking? What's wrong with saying "I am able to do it and I prefer it"?
>>55295222
Because money is involved.
A LOT of money.
And huge corporations like Google.
It will probably be a legal issue soon, and affect everyone.
Better get your arguments ready now.
>>55295222
Exactly why people get all defensive and make walls of text when you point out that piracy is bad. Because they do feel guilt.
They're both bad for the industry. I'm still going to do them because I can.
>>55295233
I think the OP arguments are good, but sadly they won't hold up if you circumvent adblock-killing scripts.
>>55295253
Honestly I feel worse about pirating shit than I do about blocking ads. Not that I give a shit, but if I had to rank it, anyway.
If they had never become so fucking intrusive, I wouldn't block them, but when they take up over half the screen space, overlay the page, auto play or come with malware, I just can't fucking take it.
>>55295222
This is my reasoning, though I whitelist sites I care a lot about and I haven't pirated any games since I got a job.
Don't give a shit.
Adverts are why facebook exists, why google is now king of the earth, and why privacy is dead.
>>55295233
Ad blocking began because a majority of ads were intrusive, poorly designed, and in some cases predatory for the end user. If Google Adsense and other websites put harsh requirements on ads and websites work with UI designers to get them to fit the style of the website, then I may enable adblocker once more.
Unfortunately, companies have gone a much darker route, instead paying for advertisements diguised as news articles, and hit ads in normal operations of a site. Legislation needs to put limits on both parties ways, in my opinion.
When I dont use adblocker I dont even notice any ads.
I dont know what you guys visit that gives you malware and popups.
I'm not sure it's worth talking to someone who doesn't see the value in blocking ads. I don't want to see them, and I don't want to pay to download them. So I don't. It's that simple. SJWs who "feel like" I'm cheating companies out of money may feel free to kill themselves.
>>55295526
>pornhub
>block ads for normal browsing
>run vms on pay-to-view-ads websites with no adblocker
i'm making up for all the ads i blocked
30gb per day being shoved in my face, and i get $10 every day out of it
Just host the ads on your own servers, bro
>>55295068
>"there's nothing wrong wth site being "content-free" and having a lot of ads, i gotta support myself ya'know" - Hister JS coder 5 months after opening his startup
I'd be totally fine with all ad-driven websites disappearing as a result of ad blocking. They've driven relative ad value as low as possible in an effort to make as much money as possible.
The internet was a better place when websites were run by hobbyists who actually cared about their sites.
>>55295068
Completely ok anon
>>55295177
>let me put my dick to your cunt
This is just like raping someone
>>55295068
A website is a set of instructions to a browser on what to display.
Seeing as it's my browser running on my hardware, it's only reasonable that I should be the ultimate authority on what it does.
>>55295068
Unrequested online ads get blocked because they:
- are in the form of popups
- have sound
- use flashy animation
- use distracting colours
- contain questionable content
- contain malware
- take up bandwidth
- take up too much space on a page
Fix your advertising style, or get blocked. Very simple.
Bandwidth caps. Especially mobile. Pay to load your 1mb banner videos when I wanted your 1kb of text? Lol no.
>>55295233
>It will probably be a legal issue soon, and affect everyone.
how
>>55296741
I'll block everything, no matter how non-intrusive it might seem.
>tfw you're fully justified in your firewall blocking ads for 'malware purposes'
>>55296799
>tfw you're fully justified in your torrent client downloading music and videos for 'finance purposes'
I block ads, pirate movies, music, software and vIdeo games. Yeah, I can afford it, but why pay when I don't have to?
Fuck paying for shit.
>>55296813
this
>buy $50 game
>or get another week's worth of gasoline
I don't like to see ads and I don't like paying for content if I can get it for free with no consequences.
I can see that this is a problem for content producers but I don't care. If they really start to enforce copyrights or ads I'll have to rethink my position.
I block ads because I am completely obligated to do it, go ahead and bitch but it won't change anything
>>55296730
>>55296813
>>55296837
these
>>55295068
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubAEjdZCQY
>>55296741
Don't forget how they use cookies to read your browsing history to give you 'relevant' offers
>>55295253
I sometimes feel bad for pirating games and programs since it actually does take a certain amount of knowledge, risk, and effort to make a game/program, but that's how I decide whether or not I want to give my money to a developer. Same with books. I feel a little less bad when pirating suites like Adobe and MS Office, though..
The MPAA/RIAA, Jewlywood, and advertisers can blow me, though. None of those people are actually struggling from day to day and don't actually want to contribute in any positive way to society. I'll happily bleed them for every cent I can.
I block ads and don't care, deal with it.
I donate to support sites I like. I still block the ads.
>>55296784
It won't, he was pulling garbage out of his ass.
>>55295068
>"I'm not blocking ads, I just choose not to request them.
When has anyone said this?
>>55295233
>It will probably be a legal issue soon, and affect everyone.
LOL, OKAY
>>55295233
"fucking stop me, cucks".
/argument
>>55296813
I only pay for content when I think the author deserved it. I do that for some indie games, but not any music or movie.
>>55295068
Sorry that you decided to make your money with ads. Adapt or die
>>55295068
>im not spamming you with ads and trojan viruses
>im earning the money I deserve for pajeet retard tier wordpress "developing"
>>55296741
And on top of all that even the ones that may seem "reasonable" may be doing shady shit in the background like tracking your browsing activity. Nah, fuck off cunts.
>>55299483
>may
will
Seriously, if you think there exists an advertising company that isn't also in the information selling business, you're deluded.
Why do you think there's such a high premium for “personalized ads”? Information has a price. If they have any opportunity to get their own hands on it, they sure as hell will.
i block more than just ads, i wont let you run shitty scripts in my browser, or waste my bandwith with huge gifs, etc
>>55295222
I do it because I can.
Or will someone one day that it is un-/g/ to use adblockers?
un-ethical?
inhuman?
The right thing to do?
Who knows what the right thing to do is?
>>55298930
Most ads don't bother me at all, but I CANNOT stand those. So fucking annoying.
Why is everybody relating this to piracy? I see the two issues as completely separate. I didn't ask for ads but I certainly had motive if I pirated media
>>55299678
They're relating it to piracy because it is literally the only straw to grasp.
>>55295068
Gone are the days of hypertext links on jpgs.
It has to be flashy, large, and resource heavy to grab your attention.
No.
>pirating games? Ah, a joke! Sorry, but I'm not laughing. I prefer to SUPPORT game developers.
>>55299770
That picture gave me anxiety
>there are actually people who consider ad-blocking wrong
I don't give two fucks
I have blocked ads since like 2008 and the other day I used a friends computer and jesus christ every should just block them.
It should be illegal to spam people as hard as they do now with ads.
I didn't realize the internet is almost unusable with ads left unchecked.
>>55295068
Ads are a cancer that need to be surpressed, in a world where you can find everything you need in a click ads are useless, they don't bring anything to society and they only exist to waste time and space on the internet, on newspapers and magazines, on the tv.
So, what's the purpose of this thread?
Like a few posters said the main reason we have to block ads today as /g/ users is to avoid malware, conserve bandwidth and system resources, and of course because the overall quality of the internet as dropped as the years gone by. Gone are the years of fans making sites and now we have people whoring themselves out with the most basic of junk content and stuffing ads on them to make money off of it.
>>55295068
I block ads because I do not want to see them. No matter what changes are/aren't made by the industry I will continue to block ads. I don't like them, I won't see them.
>>55295352
>Ad blocking began because a majority of ads were intrusive, poorly designed, and in some cases predatory for the end user.
Nah ads are cancer. I don't give a shit about a particular website, if he must dies, another one will replace it. I WON'T EVER disable my adblocker.
I do the same with tv and radio, I switch whenever they put ads.
>>55295068
We need to encourage normies to not use adblock. They do not deserve the ability to block ads. Any developer who makes an easy adblock solution should be arrested. We already have the /etc/hosts file which is easy in and of itself but beyond the grasp of normalfags. If we make it hard for notmies to block ads they'll just give up and live with ads and provide the financial support needed for online businesses that rely on ad revenue.
>>55296753
Malware and this >>55296753
>>55295526
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-website-malware-idUSKCN0WI2DZ
>>55300547
/hosts/ is pretty good, but it can't
block only specific parts of a domain(foo.com/ads/*)
and you can't do cosmetic filtering
>>55295233
The internet is not about the companies it's about the content.
No one asked the companies to go corporate on the internet chummer.
>>55296784
Because money is involved
