Should people use Adblock?

[Kulverstukas]

Bump. I wanted to say that ads are not that bad, ofcourse not all, but some are legit and it helps to maintain a website/have some revenue, on mobiles it helps developers have some income to support their work, they don't invade anything and just display ads... admob is probably the biggest network which I use as well in some of my apps and I tell ya that extra 40euro/month doesn't go to waste.
Same goes for websites - ofc no one likes the penis enlargement bullshit lol, those should be blocked, but legit advertisements shouldn't be completely blocked. And someone said that if the website needs ads to stay up, they are doing it wrong? well not completely, as I said, the project could be awesome, but offering it for free ain't going to pay back the hosting and other expenses. People aren't willing to give a lot of money in donations unless the service saves their lives, ads help developers gather income to pay back some of the work and that's it.

[0E 800]

I notice ads for the things I purchased only after I have already purchased the same item online.

WTF - Paying Comca$t for cable and I am still subjected to TV advertisements? How does that work?

The advertisers should be paying my cable bill if I am subjected to their advertisements.

Good looking out on uBlock. +1

[Kulverstukas]

WTF - Paying Comca$t for cable and I am still subjected to TV advertisements? How does that work?
The advertisers should be paying my cable bill if I am subjected to their advertisements.

That's not how it works. You buy a service of watching the TV from the Television provider (not counting other bullshit for smarttv and whatnot), nothing more. The channels that operate on the television are a whole different thing - they make money from TV shows and viewer ratings, however they also get paid to display ads. The bigger is the channel/bigger viewer rating, the more valuable ads they show.
So basically they shouldn't pay you, and you have no choice because there's no adblock for the TV and every channel you turn to (except for exclusively paid ones like Discovery Science or National Geographic) does it. I agree that everyone hates ads on tv tho

[Darkvision]

Bump. I wanted to say that ads are not that bad, ofcourse not all, but some are legit and it helps to maintain a website/have some revenue, on mobiles it helps developers have some income to support their work, they don't invade anything and just display ads... admob is probably the biggest network which I use as well in some of my apps and I tell ya that extra 40euro/month doesn't go to waste.
Same goes for websites - ofc no one likes the penis enlargement bullshit lol, those should be blocked, but legit advertisements shouldn't be completely blocked. And someone said that if the website needs ads to stay up, they are doing it wrong? well not completely, as I said, the project could be awesome, but offering it for free ain't going to pay back the hosting and other expenses. People aren't willing to give a lot of money in donations unless the service saves their lives, ads help developers gather income to pay back some of the work and that's it.

BAD doubleposter! anyway i just wanted to say real fast ive always hated any and all fucking popup ads, but just blocking pops had me happy...till the interent decided to plaster 500000000 per page. youtube is a great example of this, roughly 30 ad's blocked PER video. Its just absurd. Even then though, what finally made me go for the "fuck ads" of an adblocker, was when they started deciding to put video ads...on every fucking page. (not to mention before videos) i tend to have a TON of tabs open, and it gets really fucking old doing the "which tab has the ad playing" hunt every 30 minutes. so yeah. imo sites can fuck themselves on getting revenue through ad's, they abused the privilege.

[shimomura]

There use to and rarely but sometimes still is some artistic integrity within ads. Selling products is obviously essential to our economy and small and local businesses advertisements don't bother me. Like those above me have stated, it's the abuse by fuck tards who created spammy and shity ads to further expand there local business destroying, monopoly-esque corporations that have led us to implement ad blocks. As with many things in society, the fair play of a few is eclipsed by the abuse of most. As a web designer, fuck it, I'll generate revenue on the quality of my work, not the click bait convoluting the aesthetics of the page.         

[Sneaky]

I was wondering if there are any laws in any countries restricting certain advertisements to be displayed or the amount per page?

[puddi]

fuck adblock. ads such as adsense, admob and other harmless ad networks like them should be excluded from the list.

[cyberdrifter]

fuck adblock. ads such as adsense, admob and other harmless ad networks like them should be excluded from the list.

Harmless? You're an idiot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising

[puddi]

Harmless? You're an idiot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising

so google's cookies will infect my computer? ha!