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If a website has misbehaving ads, ads I consider over the top, or are known to distribute malware ads consistently to the point where I don't feel safe, I stop
by Klathmon 10y ago
If a website has misbehaving ads, ads I consider over the top, or are known to distribute malware ads consistently to the point where I don't feel safe, I stop going to that website.
If it ever gets to the point that I can't remember which sites I don't want to visit i'll probably add some kind of blocklist, but that hasn't been a problem yet.
The only site I can think of off the top of my head that I don't visit any more is the verge. It's just too much, and the experience isn't worth the content (and for them it's not so much the ads, but just that the site is so heavy and slow. The ads did contribute to my decision though, they are full-page and expand down and everything terrible about ads). There are more, but I honestly can't think of them right now...
- coldpie 10y agoSo if you run across an ad that plays audio or redirects to the app store, you just put up with it and hope it doesn't happen again? I hope you can at least understand why others may want a more robust solution to guarantee that never happens.
- Klathmon 10y agoI honestly haven't hit either of those, so it might be my own little bubble here is why I feel this way. I hear about them a lot when talking about advertising, but I've never seen them personally. But if I did get an audio ad, or a redirect ad, and they were consistent enough that it became a problem, i'd stop using that site. I mean, on a scale of bad things, having an audio ad play once isn't really all that high up the ladder. Yeah, it's not ideal, and it shouldn't happen, and if it happens a few times i'm going to stop going there, but it's a sound on a website. Removing an entire chunk of income from a news website because I'm afraid of hearing an audio ad (something most trustworthy sites also don't want in their ads) seems over the top.