Don't use ad blockers if you like AnandTech.

[dennilfloss]

Written for Ars but I'm sure it applies here too.:hmm:

http://arstechnica.com/business/new...king-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars

Even Roger Ebert retweeted this, so spread the word.

 

[mfenn]

Written for Ars but I'm sure it applies here too.:hmm:

http://arstechnica.com/business/new...king-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars

Even Roger Ebert retweeted this, so spread the word.

Or use Chrome. Because of the way Chrome works, its adblockers still download the ad, they just hide it from you.

 

[Jeff7]

In turn, the message to advertisers:
- Irritating, flashing, moving ads don't make me want to buy your product. They instead generate an increasing desire to inflict injury. Pop-ups are in a similar class.
- Sound in ads is not ok.
- If your adserver is slow, and is constantly holding up page loads, that increases chances of earning a block. dynamic2.anandtech.com was like this - it would constantly cause pages to take considerably longer to load, sometimes to the point of causing a timeout and failed pageload.
- If I find that your Flash advertisement is generating a significant CPU load, that also increases the chance of earning a block.

- I paid for the subscription option back when it was available, and might consider something like that if it were offered again.

 

[ric1287]

Or use Chrome. Because of the way Chrome works, its adblockers still download the ad, they just hide it from you.

What Chrome adblocker works the same as ABP for firefox? I haven't found one

 

[Miramonti]

Under consideration. Will send recommendation to the board for further review by June 1.

/edit: Successfully fastracked. AT has been unblocked.

 

[Leros]

In turn, the message to advertisers:
- Irritating, flashing, moving ads don't make me want to buy your product. They instead generate an increasing desire to inflict injury. Pop-ups are in a similar class.
- Sound in ads is not ok.
- If your adserver is slow, and is constantly holding up page loads, that increases chances of earning a block.
- If I find that your Flash advertisement is generating a significant CPU load, that also increases the chance of earning a block.

- I paid for the subscription option back when it was available, and might consider something like that if it were offered again.

This is why I block ads.

 

[olds]

In turn, the message to advertisers:
- Irritating, flashing, moving ads don't make me want to buy your product. They instead generate an increasing desire to inflict injury. Pop-ups are in a similar class.
- Sound in ads is not ok.
- If your adserver is slow, and is constantly holding up page loads, that increases chances of earning a block. dynamic2.anandtech.com was like this - it would constantly cause pages to take considerably longer to load, sometimes to the point of causing a timeout and failed pageload.
- If I find that your Flash advertisement is generating a significant CPU load, that also increases the chance of earning a block.

- I paid for the subscription option back when it was available, and might consider something like that if it were offered again.

This

 

[Fritzo]

I've understood this for years, and have never used an ad blocker.

In fact, I'll even click on an ad a few times a week to give a site some extra cash

 

[GagHalfrunt]

In turn, the message to advertisers:
- Irritating, flashing, moving ads don't make me want to buy your product. They instead generate an increasing desire to inflict injury. Pop-ups are in a similar class.
- Sound in ads is not ok.
- If your adserver is slow, and is constantly holding up page loads, that increases chances of earning a block. dynamic2.anandtech.com was like this - it would constantly cause pages to take considerably longer to load, sometimes to the point of causing a timeout and failed pageload.
- If I find that your Flash advertisement is generating a significant CPU load, that also increases the chance of earning a block.

Amen. Ad blocking sprang up to combat ads run amok. It's the fault of the assholes who tried to squeeze every penny out of visitors with obnoxious ads that were coded so poorly they caused problem at client level.

 

[TridenT]

Or use Chrome. Because of the way Chrome works, its adblockers still download the ad, they just hide it from you.

Which is the most annoying way that Chrome blocks ads. That's really fucking annoying. I don't want those to load at all. Reason #1 for not using Chrome.

Advertisers can go diaf with those extremely annoying and irrelevant ads.

 

[Homerboy]

honestly, what adds at Anandtech are THAT horribly distracting? There are 2 banner ads. One at the top, which goes out of site the second you scroll down to the 3rd message in a thread, and one on the left, that you generally can't see until you scroll down to the 3rd message. I don't EVER recall a horribly annoying/flashing/neon colored/with sound ad ever on Anandtech.

 

[mfenn]

What Chrome adblocker works the same as ABP for firefox? I haven't found one

Which is the most annoying way that Chrome blocks ads. That's really fucking annoying. I don't want those to load at all. Reason #1 for not using Chrome.

Advertisers can go diaf with those extremely annoying and irrelevant ads.

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If you have a decently fast CPU, then you wont even notice the behavior (esp. with Chrome 5 and Adthwart).

 

[lxskllr]

I was wondering what had happened to some of their articles, I thought it was just "one of those things" :^D

I really don't have a problem with ads, and I'll turn them on on occasion. I turn them back off when the ad servers go to shit. A couple weeks ago I was in Chrome, and a site wouldn't load for me. It was waiting for a non responsive ad server. I had to open Firefox so I could view the site. That's the kind of thing that bothers me. I don't mind seeing a couple of banners though. I'd prefer if they were embedded in the page, and not loaded by foreign servers.

 

[TridenT]

<------------------ Point

<------------------ Your head

If you have a decently fast CPU, then you wont even notice the behavior (esp. with Chrome 5 and Adthwart).

I have a C2D E7200 @ 3.6Ghz and I fucking notice it still.

 

[Rubycon]

Sorry but bandwidth and security concerns prevent the remote side of the network from loading anything like that here. It's done on the Earth side by firewall so whether the host has adblocking configured or not they never reach a host PC.

 

[mfenn]

I have a C2D E7200 @ 3.6Ghz and I fucking notice it still.

Now you're just talking out of your ass. It doesn't happen on Chrome 5 and with new versions of Adthwart. Get back to your fruit loops

 

[Rubycon]

Now you're just talking out of your ass. It doesn't happen on Chrome 5 and with new versions of Adthwart. Get back to your fruit loops

Could be his video card. I had a Trident card years ago and it sucked. Even flying toasters (after dark) were choppy and the toast never got dark!

 

[Leros]

Sorry but bandwidth and security concerns prevent the remote side of the network from loading anything like that here. It's done on the Earth side by firewall so whether the host has adblocking configured or not they never reach a host PC.

So you run the entire ship through a proxy which removes ads? I suppose it does image compression and other stuff like that?

 

[TridenT]

Now you're just talking out of your ass. It doesn't happen on Chrome 5 and with new versions of Adthwart. Get back to your fruit loops

When I used it on Chrome 4 or whatever and the Adthwart version I noticed. I'll go back to Chrome at version 7 with Adthwart version 99999999999999. >_> Maybe then they'll have fixed it. It isn't fixed if they still load at all, PERIOD.

 

[MotionMan]

In turn, the message to advertisers:
- Irritating, flashing, moving ads don't make me want to buy your product. They instead generate an increasing desire to inflict injury. Pop-ups are in a similar class.
- Sound in ads is not ok.
- If your adserver is slow, and is constantly holding up page loads, that increases chances of earning a block. dynamic2.anandtech.com was like this - it would constantly cause pages to take considerably longer to load, sometimes to the point of causing a timeout and failed pageload.
- If I find that your Flash advertisement is generating a significant CPU load, that also increases the chance of earning a block.

So this.

MotionMan

 

[Red Squirrel]

I only block popups, and annoying ads. I have no reason to block the rest. It costs lot of money to run a site like this. Even with the ads, the cost goes up higher then the income. More visitors = more income = need for much bigger infrastructure = more cost. Unless you have FIOS and host a site like this from home, it's always more expensive then what the ad revenue brings in.

 

[Ken g6]

In turn, the message to advertisers:
- If your adserver is slow, and is constantly holding up page loads, that increases chances of earning a block. dynamic2.anandtech.com was like this - it would constantly cause pages to take considerably longer to load, sometimes to the point of causing a timeout and failed pageload.
- If I find that your Flash advertisement is generating a significant CPU load, that also increases the chance of earning a block.

These are my two main issues with advertising. I'm not sure yet if the first applies here - I just decided to try ads - but I know it's a problem on some sites with Google ads. If an entire page loaded without ads, then let Greasemonkey scripts run, then loaded ads, I probably wouldn't mind even if it interfered with any Greasemonkey scripts I designed to hide the ads.

As far as the second issue goes, I'm addicted to distributed computing and don't want any unnecessary cycles going anywhere else, but especially to ads in my browser. Flash is the worst, and I'm also blocking those with NoScript, but even a page full of animated gifs, such as a smilies page on other boards, is too much for me.

Or put another way...

Every cycle's sacred. ()
Every cycle's great. :awe:
When a cycle's wasted,
I get quite irate!

 

[hclarkjr]

they need to bring back paid subscriptions.

 

[dbk]

Or use Chrome. Because of the way Chrome works, its adblockers still download the ad, they just hide it from you.

that's not adblocking

 

[Anubis]

i block ads, if the sites i love fail because of that ill simply find new sites to love