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I'm not where my position is relative to the rest of my generation, but for me it's all about practicality. I have no vendetta against advertising and I don't t

I'm not where my position is relative to the rest of my generation, but for me it's all about practicality. I have no vendetta against advertising and I don't think it is inherently evil. I don't think it makes for a good content publishing model, but that is the content publishers choice. What bothers me is how intrusive and obnoxious they are. Large ads that pop up or take up 3/4 of the screen, can't click out because the [x] button is too small, making me wait to watch an ad with no escape hatch, video with loud volume, popunders, etc. it just got out of hand, so I opted out completely.

tdb7893 10y ago
I don't have any moral problem with ads and companies need to make money so I don't have an adblocker and I just don't visit sites with obnoxious ads. 90% of the sites I visit (i.e. google, facebook, stackoverflow, reddit, hackernews, xkcd, netflix, etc...) don't have annoying ads. Oddly enough the only times I have really regretted turning off my ad blocker is when I'm watching videos where an unskippable ad longer than 10 seconds comes up or I go to some news site (which seems to 3/4 of the time have some full page popup or autoplaying video).
- coldpie 10y ago
  > I don't have any moral problem with ads and companies need to make money so I don't have an adblocker and I just don't visit sites with obnoxious ads. How do you keep track? What about drive-by exploits that could infect your computer on first visit? Or mobile ads that redirect to the app store?
  - tdb7893 10y ago
    I know to just avoid most news site except for maybe 5 or 10 that don't have terrible ads (5-10 isn't that hard to just remember). Mobile ads that redirect to the store are annoying and there's no great way to deal with them but I don't seem to run into those much where I go (maybe happens to me twice a week). Other than those the only real concern is drive-by exploits from legitimate ad networks, which doesn't seem to happen very often in the wild.

tdb7893 10y ago

I don't have any moral problem with ads and companies need to make money so I don't have an adblocker and I just don't visit sites with obnoxious ads. 90% of the sites I visit (i.e. google, facebook, stackoverflow, reddit, hackernews, xkcd, netflix, etc...) don't have annoying ads. Oddly enough the only times I have really regretted turning off my ad blocker is when I'm watching videos where an unskippable ad longer than 10 seconds comes up or I go to some news site (which seems to 3/4 of the time have some full page popup or autoplaying video).

coldpie 10y ago
> I don't have any moral problem with ads and companies need to make money so I don't have an adblocker and I just don't visit sites with obnoxious ads. How do you keep track? What about drive-by exploits that could infect your computer on first visit? Or mobile ads that redirect to the app store?
- tdb7893 10y ago
  I know to just avoid most news site except for maybe 5 or 10 that don't have terrible ads (5-10 isn't that hard to just remember). Mobile ads that redirect to the store are annoying and there's no great way to deal with them but I don't seem to run into those much where I go (maybe happens to me twice a week). Other than those the only real concern is drive-by exploits from legitimate ad networks, which doesn't seem to happen very often in the wild.