I will simply back out and look somewhere else for the information you purport to possess. If you weren't such greedy assholes, and litter your page top to bottom with ANIMATED ADS that interfere with the basic functioning of the webpage, I might not have to run ad blocker at all. But since you and your kind insist on trying to squeeze every last dime out of your online presence possible, and in doing so make the webpage essentially useless, I have no sympathy for you. Fuck off.

Some sites are just totally unreadable or blocked with ads to the point you do just say fuck this and leave. I don't get the strategy. Ok, you have ads that's ok and I get it. But to render your site unusable makes no sense

I've done it on request. If the results are annoying, I leave. No biggie.

Forbes does this crap. If article looks interesting enough I pause the Ad Blocker read it, and unpause the Ad blocker. If not I move on and find the article some place else.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Forbes does this crap. If article looks interesting enough I pause the Ad Blocker read it, and unpause the Ad blocker. If not I move on and find the article some place else.

I've skipped many Forbes's pages because of this.

Along with that, what yahoo felt it was a good idea to have videos auto start playing when you hit the site, I have my audio muted because of these things....

Jackwads...

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
I've done it on request. If the results are annoying, I leave. No biggie.

Same here.

Whether it's because of ads or not, if a site runs poorly (too much overhead usually), I am generally gone within seconds.

I don't need anything online bad enough to suffer through ads, same for TV commercials, and radio/music, and I don't care one tiny bit if that's how they generate revenue. Figure it out another way, or die off, or find a sucker who doesn't mind, because I refuse. Most advertising is a scourge, a pox upon humanity and civilization, an unnecessary evil, at best. I remain perplexed and doubtful that it really works very well at all, anyway. The number of times it's positively affected a purchase in my life has to be incredibly small. Most often I make it a point to specifically avoid those items/brands who annoy me with ads. The signal to noise ratio of advertising in general has to be 100,000,000:1, or worse.