It's already 2016. Why do you still block ads?
That said. If you still block ads, you have ten seconds to post why you do.
Excuses like these will only get you nowhere, especially if you're on a stable connection ;
- Adware/Malware/Spyware. Sure, the exception's there if you're dumb/stupid to enough to infect yourself somehow.
- "I don't like ads"
- Page load times.
- "YouTube ads" are basically useless excuses now. You're either smart or dumb enough to not download YouTube videos and watch them in your preferred qualities and resolutions in your preferred media player(s) and likely dumb enough to not have autoplay disabled somehow. YouTube Red is basically YouTube ad-free, you've no excuse to even use your ad blocker here anymore.
What's your excuse this time, /g/?
Not a jew
Am a Jew I don't want to pay for shit or get other people paid.
>>54845731
Because I honestly could not give two shits about the websites developer / owner and I find ads annoying
>>54845731
Cleaner looking websites is my primary reason. If I visit a website, I am there for a reason. I only want what I came there for.
Also, I have clicked exactly zero ads in the days before adblocking, and I have clicked zero since. Feels good, mon.
Lel... "content creators" :D :D :^D
I probably wouldn't block ads if it wasn't for those video ads that auto play at full volume on some sites.
>>54845731
>You're either smart or dumb enough to not download YouTube videos and watch them in your preferred qualities and resolutions in your preferred media player(s)
Most autistic thing I've read on /g/ today.
>>54845763
>you are obliged to click on ads and buy the products advertised
>>54845731
Because I don't give a shit, that's why.
>>54845878
>le edgey teenie detected
I honestly don't care. Ads annoy me.
>>54845899
(You)
Imagine a normie who goes on walks everyday decides one day they would like to buy a dog. The normie continues his walks and decides to take their walks with the dog but every time the dog is on a walk it constantly bark/yapped. Consistently. No amount of training fixes the issue. What would you expect the normie to do?
The only options are to either stop taking it on walks or to purchase a muzzle for the dog. So fuck you I do what I want by blocking obtrusive ad's.
Why is there no adblocker for retards posting bait?
>>54845731
The web is not a push medium. It is a pull medium. I simply don't request to pull the advertisements.
I don't want to support clickbait.
>>54845731
I don't like ads.
Ads are an eyesore. That's it. If I could, I would block billboards as well.
>Tell me why you use ad blocker anon
>I don't like ads
>That's not good enough
> OP is a faggot
>>54845731
-I don't like ads
-Page load times
-YouTube ads
>>54845929
That's a good analogy, anon. I will remember that one for use in the future if necessary.
>>54845983
/thread
>>54845731
Websites existed before monetisation became a priority, they will continue to exist afterwards. There is no reason to support advertising companies when the majority of the revenue goes to anyone but the content creator in the first place.
There are plenty of organic ways to market content without need to make intrusive, annoying popups and sidebars. If you need to make users like or share a page before allowing you to view content, you're not publishing content worthwhile of being liked or shared in the first place.
When was the last time you watched a shopping channel or something similar and thought, "Wow, I really shoud buy this junk. How ever did I do without this blender." That's the equivilent of todays advertisements online. Buy this snake oil, check out this freemium service, give us your details so we can profile and sell you crap.
If users don't stand up for a more ethical form of advertising, we will end up with a truly consumerist internet build solely around selling instead of sharing information freely. If I want to support a site, I will pay for a membership, subscription or donation. I do not however, concent to being made a product for advertising companies to share between each other in the hopes that I'll buy another seventeen shirts I don't need with money I could be saving or investing.
Pages load faster you fucking nigger
>>54845731
>If you still block ads, you have ten seconds to post why you do.
I don't want to see ads
>>54845837
/thread
How does it benefit ME to not block ads?
>hurr supporting content you like
retards like you already do that for me
>not being this smart and wanting us to see clickbait and porn ads
>>54846303
Because blocking ads is stealing, clean and simple.
>It's okay if I don't pay for this steak at the supermarket. It's not like I was going to pay for it anyways.
Your logic, anon.
>>54846459
so tell me how it benefits me to not block them, retard
Because ads are ugly and because I can.
Here's when I don't like ads:
>sex ads
>medical ads
>'things you don't know' ads
I don't give a fuck - those ads need to die in hell, where they belong.
>>54846459
congrats on making the most retarded post of 2016 on /g/!
>>54845731
Because I hate ads.
I don't give a fuck if a nigga has to work harder to make a buck, that's not my problem. My problem is being assaulted with shit I don't even have the slightest want to even know about.
Im not going to inconvenience myself just because someone wants me to see the last 5 items I saw on Amazon 10k times, or because Google noticed I was looking at something new (Ex: look up vac ovens, across international ads fucking everywhere for the next 3 days).
>>54845731
because besides 4chan, lainchan, 8ch an, wikipedia and some times reddit, the 'content' is literal trash.
Go to a forbes.com article right now and look at the autoplaying videos, banners everywhere.
Thats why I use adblock you faggot.
There's no point in not using one, if your computer is that slow use a host file that redirects ads to 0.0.0.0
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Ads are notorious for being malicious, I won't allow such things thing to run on my machines.
Because I'm on a tight budget and I can't afford internet at home, I don't like squandering my phone's meager data plan on things my eyes would flick past anyway.
>>54846459
>Walking past a butcher shop and not looking at the steaks on sale is stealing
Get a load of this faggot
>>54846459
>go to butcher at the supermarket
>see a slice of meat I want to buy
>butcher takes the meat and starts wrapping it
>as he's wrapping it he's slapping a bunch of ads all over the wrapping
>somehow the ads are related to my google searches at home or they're ads for shit I don't care about
>butcher cuts a hole in meat and looks for a way to insert a thumb drive with a music video of some shit band I don't like
>ask politely for butcher to remove the ads and don't go near the meat with music video, I just want the meat and that's it
>he begrudgingly takes off the ad grumbling that you're stealing money from his pocket
>walk out with what you wanted in the first place
Not my fault the butcher isn't getting paid adequately for what he's supposed to be doing and needs to be both a butcher and a shill, fuck ads and I'll block them until the day I die. Zero fucks given.
>>54845731
>2016
>I have to justify myself to a bunch of sperglords
TOOOOOP KEK
>>54845839
This. Also because most websites are trying to destroy whatever individuality they once had, and I don't want to reward them for that.
i block ads because i can
they want to make money off me, make it worth my damn time instead of annoying the fuck out of me
cunts
>>54846459
>In a relationship
>"Hot slutty singles in your area anon"
>No thank
>rerouted to virus city
>auto downloads 10,000 clippys'
>"I see you're trying to find slutty girls in your area"
Wear a condom before sex
Download ad blocker before you browse
>>54847107
> this trash analogy
fuck me lad, step it up
>>54845731
Is this bait
Viruses being served directly through ads/Javascript exploits is commonplace nowadays.
Just recently Forbes, New York Times, and a bunch of other big-name sites got caught inadvertently serving malicious ads on their homepages. You wouldn't even have to click on it, just it being displayed was the attack vector.
Also a majority of sites have no scruples and shit up their site with big banner ads all over. and it makes browsing those sites worse.
The default behavior should be using an ad-blocker and disabling it for sites you choose to support through ad revenue, if you choose to.
>>54845731
>Adware/Malware/Spyware. Sure, the exception's there if you're dumb/stupid to enough to infect yourself somehow
Except for the fact that ads can infect you even if you don't click on anything.
You know how smart people avoid infecting themselves?
I'll let you figure that out yourself, but it rhymes with mad locker
>>54847329
I bet you sit through every YouTube ad and give each one a courtesy click so Pewdiepie gets another 10 cents. Fuck off out of here, you're part of the cancer killing the internet.
>>54847453
>projection: strawman edition
no senpai, your analogy is just fundamentally flawed
Severely increases page load times
Horrifically intrusive
It's shit I don't care about
Won't get malware through them
Don't give a fuck about supporting people for money via ads
>>54847420
not to mention the gook who runs this place allowed an ad infested with malware on it last month. Luckily I had an adblocker
>>54847484
Enjoy your steak brought to you by the magic of Ford Focus and Blizzard's hit new IP Overwatch. See this car behind me and your steak?
>>54845855
Fucking this!
I don't like ads that flash or make noises. If I like a site, and they keep their ads to simple banners, I'll disable ads for that specific site.
>>54846459
no, blocking ads is not stealing.
the ad company is paying the person with a web page to put their shit up. they are not paying you to view the ads, they are paying the other person to display them as requestable content.
the web is a pull medium. blocking ads is the moral equivalent of refusing to buy a beverage from a sponsor at a sports game.
why are americans so bad at understanding what property is? all they ever think about is their batshit insane laws that have been specially formulated to increase profits for choice industries. you are a fucking slave, anon.
I don't like ads.
>hurr you can't use that excuse
I don't care. If I don't like I won't look at it. Speaking of which, goodbye.
>>54847952
You're morally obligated to give me money! It's an implicit contract, that means I think it's right, so you do it or I complain on my blog!
I make money from adsense.
I also block everything with adblock + noscript
>>54847988
Fucking this.
The only thing more annoying than ads are listening to whiny, entitled little douchebags crying about it's "stealing" and "there isn't a better business model!"
>>54848420
If only they knew what "getting a job" was. I'm sure the revenue they receive would increase at least a thousand fold, much like a Japanese katana.
I'm so sorry if your living expenses are completely thwarted by me adding a line to a text file or installing a browser add-on.
My internet is shit but I'd still block them even if my area had fiber optics because of this >>54845855
>>54845731
Because I don't want to view ads and I do not give a shit if I'm "denying ad revenue" to those kikes.
SHILL'S ARE RUINING THIS BOARD EVEN MORE THEN IS ALREADY FUGGED
>defending ads
>>54848471
I'm not saying that they're not working hard or that it isn't a job. I'm saying that I simply do not give a hot fuck if they get paid to do it or not.
I'm not going to sit there and watch ads. Ain't nobody got time fo dat. I'm not going to sit there and let whatever malware that happens to come along with the ad take a crack at my machine. Ain't nobody got time fo dat.
I'm going to block ads. If this is somehow affecting your financials, I'm sorry. Sounds like something that falls firmly into the category of "not my fucking problem."
Why shouldn't I?
because i dont like ads. what the fuck? lmao. only ads i don't block are 4chainz because they aren't noticeable at all and i use this site the most
>>54848558
Yeah, that's what I was trying to convey. Them trying to get money from their hobby by using ads isn't my problem, and them trying to use ads as a full time job isn't my problem either. The biggest reason for me definitely has to be the malware though
>>54845731
Because all the malware we're talking about is from user interaction.
Give us a reason to enable ads apart from "the content creators need money" because in 2016, there's donation driven sites.
>>54845731
I block ads on my phone because websites have started streaming ads in between content as you scroll which is fucking obnoxious when I hit the point that hasn't loaded yet.
>>54845837
this.
>>54848607
>the malware
I'd like to say this is my chief reason, but I'd be lying. Frankly, I spend most of my time in a Unix-like environment, and I seriously tend to doubt there's anything out there that's going to bother this machine.
If I'm honest, it's the fucking tears about the business model that make me run custom hosts files.
>if YOU can't come up with a better business model than the one we have now then EVERYONE has to use the one we've already got!
>YOU FUCKING HAVE TO!
>I WANT MY MONEY! I'M ENTITLED TO THAT AD REVENUE!
No, you sad little shitfuck. You're not entitled to anything.
Patrick Contri comes immediately to mind. Patrick who can't go a whole ten minutes on any subject without suddenly remembering how much he hates adblockers and how those lost shekels are rightfully his. I wish I made as much money as he does to sit around and talk about video game crap that hasn't been relevant since either one of us were little kids. I'm 38 years old, and he can't be that far behind me. You'd think at his age, with a college degree and life experiences, he would understand how this works by now.
I'm not your employer. I don't owe you compensation. How do you not get this?
>>54845731
Compromised ad servers are a very real problem.
You can sort of circumvent this by using a sandbox I guess but good lord, is that really what it's come to? I've stopped whitelisting because I want this model to hit rock bottom so that maybe all those involved will decide to finally fix their shit.
Also, I like cleaner looking pages. Oh, and of course there's the fact that I have absolutely no obligation to have these things downloading to my PC and I get a good laugh every time somebody suggests that I do.
While we're on the subject though, what happened to that Brave browser? Still going or did the ad companies get to them?
>>54845869
>not understanding the only viable reason to not block ads
>still defends them seemingly
ad revenue? ring any bells you assmatress?
>>54845731
because
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Ads are mind control, and I try to limit my exposure to them as much as possible. I don't want companies to pay someone else to make me more "aware" of their brand.
ads annoy me because I don't like clicking on something and being redirected
>>54846459
if i could viably and legally get free steak without paying for it I literally would and not feel the slightest bit guilty.
>>54850980
This
>>54845731
Malware. A browser that actually works with modurrn sites you might NEED to access if you don't like automated phone systems is complex and probably insecure.
Shit content. If it's not from someone who can afford to host it as part of a wider business model, hosted out of pure dedication, or paywalled, it's guaranteed to be shit. You get what you pay for, and who's paying when a site serves ads? Not you, the advertiser. The advertiser didn't pay for a good site, they paid for fucking clickbait.
>>54845731
I like ads. I like that small business are trying to reach out and pitch their product.
That being said, I'm a jew and I feel I'm smart enough that my future will turn out great, which means I have to take measures to save any bit of money I can
> watching ads is patriotic.
> if you use an ad blocker, you must be a terrorist/communist/homosexual
This is what Yankees actually believe.
Because I hope blocking ads will eventually kill off shitty clickbait and usher in a new era of quality subscriber content
>>54851052
This is what yankees are told to believe.
Also, copying is theft because musicians deserve money for life should they make even one song that anyone wants to listen to ever, and scientists should have to beg for grants and get a limited period of royalties that eventually ends, necessitating more grand begging.
It doesn't even matter anymore all the popular youtubers get sponsored anyways to yap for 30-45s about some lame ass product anyways eventually all of them will be doing this instead of having pre-rolls.
> "YouTube ads" are basically useless excuses now. You're either smart or dumb enough to not download YouTube videos and watch them in your preferred qualities and resolutions in your preferred media player(s)...
Implying that downloading the videos is in any way less cumbersome than watching them on the site. For me it doesn't come down to what's the smarter approach, it comes down to which is the most convenient 90% of the time. If I like a video, then I will download it and watch it at my leisure.
That covers youtube. For every other somewhat reputable site I visit I can't not notice the amount of intrusive, and frankly annoying (OP saying that's not an excuse is faggotry in its purest form) advertisements that pop up. Taboola (not 100% sure if ad service, but serves clickbait, so close enough) and Outbrain are, to me, digital cancer that only succeed in making me angry.
>>54846459
If I could steal that steak and get away with it I would
>>54845731
Because I don't want to see a bunch of fucking ads.
Is that a good enough reason, anon?
