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I'm genuinely curious how anyone can spend any significant amount of time reading on the web and not use an ad-blocker. Even mostly-benign animated sidebar ads

I'm genuinely curious how anyone can spend any significant amount of time reading on the web and not use an ad-blocker. Even mostly-benign animated sidebar ads are too distracting for me.

abrowne 11y ago
Two words: reading mode.
0xFFC 11y ago
Not going to non-standard site ? I never ever go to site which its developer put ads every where he/she liked. I have very restricted list of sites which I think are good enough my attention and time. p.s. and I spend 7 8 hour a day sitting and reading material and documents from net. p.s-2. And I am okey with standard ads.Site owners has right to make living to, and I think using ads-blocker is selfish act.
- joshuapants 11y ago
  > Site owners has right to make living to Site owners have the right to make a living. They do not have a right to waste my bandwidth, damage my hearing, or compromise my security. > I think using ads-blocker is selfish act Perhaps, but it's a reaction to the considerably more selfish trend in advertising.
  - jamespo 11y ago
    "damage my hearing" indeed
  - 0xFFC 11y ago
    Did you even read whole comment?
    - joshuapants 11y ago
      I did.
kalleboo 11y ago
> Even mostly-benign animated sidebar ads are too distracting for me. My ad-blocker has been honed for the past 20 years I've been using the web. It's in my head. I just don't see banner-shaped animated objects anymore. That said, I do block Flash for performance reasons, which also results in getting rid of the worst offenders. The day banners start using CSS animations or god forbid WebGL, I'll probably start blocking them outright.
matwood 11y ago
I don't mind static ads, and Click to Flash seems to take care off all the ads that would bother me. The sites I visit are pretty typical of HN, SO, etc... so I'm not necessarily running into bad site designs too often.
bloaf 11y ago
You can just modify your HOSTS file and get system-wide ad blocking.

I'm genuinely curious how anyone can spend any significant amount of time reading on the web and not use an ad-blocker. Even mostly-benign animated sidebar ads are too distracting for me.

abrowne 11y ago

Two words: reading mode.

0xFFC 11y ago

Not going to non-standard site ? I never ever go to site which its developer put ads every where he/she liked. I have very restricted list of sites which I think are good enough my attention and time. p.s. and I spend 7 8 hour a day sitting and reading material and documents from net. p.s-2. And I am okey with standard ads.Site owners has right to make living to, and I think using ads-blocker is selfish act.

joshuapants 11y ago
> Site owners has right to make living to Site owners have the right to make a living. They do not have a right to waste my bandwidth, damage my hearing, or compromise my security. > I think using ads-blocker is selfish act Perhaps, but it's a reaction to the considerably more selfish trend in advertising.
- jamespo 11y ago
  "damage my hearing" indeed
- 0xFFC 11y ago
  Did you even read whole comment?
  - joshuapants 11y ago
    I did.

kalleboo 11y ago

> Even mostly-benign animated sidebar ads are too distracting for me. My ad-blocker has been honed for the past 20 years I've been using the web. It's in my head. I just don't see banner-shaped animated objects anymore. That said, I do block Flash for performance reasons, which also results in getting rid of the worst offenders. The day banners start using CSS animations or god forbid WebGL, I'll probably start blocking them outright.

matwood 11y ago

I don't mind static ads, and Click to Flash seems to take care off all the ads that would bother me. The sites I visit are pretty typical of HN, SO, etc... so I'm not necessarily running into bad site designs too often.

bloaf 11y ago

You can just modify your HOSTS file and get system-wide ad blocking.