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Should people use Adblock?
« on: February 13, 2015, 09:41:02 pm »
Many of us use Adblock to disable annoying flashy,pop up advertisements, for basically every website we visit. For the past few years, the use of Adblock has been on the rise like crazy. Take a look at this Statistics for Adblock Plus.

Honestly, I don't know where I stand on this subject. Because the more people use it the less revenue website owners make, which can be an issue in the future don't you think?

Imagine, if websites started to charge you money to view certain information?


 
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2015, 09:53:24 pm »
People use Adblock to stop viewing stupid clutter, absolutely no one likes it. We shouldn't have to suffer just for having our right to view information. Many websites make revenue with ads as a bonus, not so much a source of primary revenue. These website hosters need to understand that if people are going to use Adblock then they have fucked up on their business decisions.

We are technically charged for most of the information on the web. We pay in information, everywhere you go websites are tracking you. They won't make money by charging access, because some one out there can do it for free, so they won't make money there either.

Within time, ads will die. they'll find more information to sell and the industry will remain continuous.
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2015, 10:36:14 pm »
I think it is immoral, abhorrent and unacceptable to pray on weak people by forcing brainwashing down their necks. 
I haven't watched TV for about 15 years due to my intense hatred of Ads.
People who make Ads should kill themselves, no really, fucking do it.
No but really, this whole field exposes exactly how fucked up and ignorant we are as a species.
We are willing to cannibalize ourselves for some imaginary numbers on a piece of paper in our pocket.
So yes, I use adblock and I think every single person on the planet should.
They should put all the Ads on one channel so if anyone wants they can switch over. lol.
FUCK advertisers.
See Bill Hicks:

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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2015, 10:58:55 pm »
Quote from: d4rkcat on February 13, 2015, 10:36:14 pm
I think it is immoral, abhorrent and unacceptable to pray on weak people by forcing brainwashing down their necks. 
I haven't watched TV for about 15 years due to my intense hatred of Ads.
People who make Ads should kill themselves, no really, fucking do it.
No but really, this whole field exposes exactly how fucked up and ignorant we are as a species.
We are willing to cannibalize ourselves for some imaginary numbers on a piece of paper in our pocket.
So yes, I use adblock and I think every single person on the planet should.
They should put all the Ads on one channel so if anyone wants they can switch over. lol.
FUCK advertisers.
See Bill Hicks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J14O05N4g2A

I totally agree with you. Advertisements are the #1 reason I don't watch TV anymore.

Adblock Plus really saved my life on the internet too, and everyone I encounter not having it installed, gets told to do so.

If there are any website owners, who's only revenue is from ads, I won't feel sorry for him/her.
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2015, 11:08:46 pm »
No, Adblock sucks. They should use uBlock instead:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2015, 11:10:30 pm »
Quote from: bones on February 13, 2015, 11:08:46 pm
No, Adblock sucks. They should use uBlock instead:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

 ;)

I don't really see the benefit in that? Adblock Plus + Disconnect or Ghostery = win!
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2015, 12:59:06 am »
Quote from: Phage on February 13, 2015, 11:10:30 pm
I don't really see the benefit in that? Adblock Plus + Disconnect or Ghostery = win!
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-now-whitelisted-on-adblock-plus-10-pay-to-play/
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#performance

Plus uBlock is much more polished IMO, like how host-style blocking rules are supported and popular filter lists are already listed in the filter list settings page.
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2015, 02:45:22 am »
Quote from: bones on February 13, 2015, 11:08:46 pm
No, Adblock sucks. They should use uBlock instead:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

 ;)

Awesome. Looks much better on CPU/Memory usage and they allow multiple block lists. Uninstalled ABP and installed uBlock.
Also what Fur said about ABP allowing business to pay them to unblock ads, that is disgusting. Also open source.
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2015, 03:39:32 am »
Quote from: Phage on February 13, 2015, 11:10:30 pm
I don't really see the benefit in that? Adblock Plus + Disconnect or Ghostery = win!

Adblock is a memory hog and slow compared to uBlock. uBlock + Privacy Badger + https-everywhere + Self-Destructing Cookies = win!
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2015, 06:09:34 am »
Quote from: Sneaky on February 13, 2015, 09:41:02 pm
Many of us use Adblock to disable annoying flashy,pop up advertisements, for basically every website we visit. For the past few years, the use of Adblock has been on the rise like crazy. Take a look at this Statistics for Adblock Plus.

Honestly, I don't know where I stand on this subject. Because the more people use it the less revenue website owners make, which can be an issue in the future don't you think?

Imagine, if websites started to charge you money to view certain information?


You probably shouldn't read the ebooks that are hosted on this site without paying for them either...
Or pirate movies for torrent sites....
Or skip commercials on youtube...
Or any number of other things that are established by the system to produce money...


But then again... I'm not really a "good" person... So fuck them and their adds. ;)
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2015, 09:04:40 am »
Quote from: Fur on February 14, 2015, 12:59:06 am
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-now-whitelisted-on-adblock-plus-10-pay-to-play/
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#performance

Plus uBlock is much more polished IMO, like how host-style blocking rules are supported and popular filter lists are already listed in the filter list settings page.
Quote from: bones on February 13, 2015, 11:08:46 pm
No, Adblock sucks. They should use uBlock instead:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

 ;)

Okay, I'm convinced. I've changed to uBlock.
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2015, 03:54:30 pm »
I am absolutely happy with this combo --> Adblock Edge, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, FoxyProxy.
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2015, 07:21:06 pm »
The next level of Social Networking Technology, will undoubtedly fix the ads-stress over the internet. This is why I can't help coding..
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2015, 07:26:48 pm »
Ill just leave this here:
http://blogs.redorbit.com/adblock-plus-sells-out-allows-acceptable-ads/
For the lazy fucks; this is about adblock allowing ads for the right price basically.
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Re: Should people use Adblock?
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2015, 08:31:07 pm »
Yeah, fuck adblock, I noticed it didn't block MANY ads no matter what and it slowed down the porn pages. I switched to uBlock and I am very happy!
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