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This is why we cant have nice things - stupid Adblock addon.

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mikeymikec said:
Ghostery stopped me from being able to use the Crucial site, so I stopped using ghostery. I simply couldn't get the two to play together.
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I've had similar issues with some sites and NoScript. Even enabling all scripts, those pages won't work right. Thankfully its very few sites and none that I need to use. If I absolutely need to I'll load it in Chrome.

My problem with Ghostery is there's a noticeable hiccup as it initiates with every loading of a page, its not seamless like AdBlock. I'm not sure if its something that another program can even remedy. I know Mozilla added a tracker-tracker into Firefox but I don't believe it let you block them.
 
This seems to be a popular response lately:

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Colt45 said:
OP is part of the cancer killing the internet.
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How so?

My friend spent a few hours putting together a video to show people how to replace the LCD screen on a specific android phone. He shot, and reshot several sequences and made it easy to follow and use. He then uploaded it to youtube and enabled ads so he can get paid for his work.

What is wrong with this? He should benefit from his hard work and obviously people are searching on how to do this, otherwise his video wouldn't pertain to them. His ads are inobtrusive, semi transparent, and pop up from below. A quick click on the X and they go away.
 
Its the videos off MSNBC that I can't stand. Please wait 30 freaking seconds for this ad for volvo to show before we show you a video that wasn't worth being shot in the first place. GAH!!!
 
Lifted said:
There are 3 reasons I run adblock and noscript.

The first is security. Ad servers get hacked, and are probably the primary instrument in infecting computers via websites.

Second is privacy. I don't want google or any other site tracking every page I go to, every link I click, etc., just so they can better target me.

Third is sanity. When I use IE for a full day, only then do I realize how intrusive the ads are on some of the sites are that I visit occasionally, or even regularly. Pictures flying across the screen, things popping up every time you move your mouse over anything, new tabs and windows opening, sounds and voices coming from flash or other crap hidden on the pages. It's just damn annoying and I would never visit these sites without all that crap blocked.

I certainly don't feel guilty using it on forums I participate on as our posts are the reason the average sheep end up here from google. Without us, there would be no forums, and no ad revenue for the site. I also never click ads, so they're not losing anything from me. I do advertise with google occasionally though, and know a fair bit about SEO, but that's all to target very specific demographics who usually wouldn't be running adblockers.
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All of this.

Mostly, I have no problem with ads that just sit there waiting to be looked at or clicked. I cannot stand all the crap that advertisers seem to think work today.

I also will not watch a commercial before being able to watch a video.

Advertisers need to figure out what kinds of online advertising will work without annoying people. When they do that, then maybe people will not need things like Adblock. Until then, ads are for people too stupid to figure out how to block them.

MotionMan
 
mikeymikec said:
Ghostery stopped me from being able to use the Crucial site, so I stopped using ghostery. I simply couldn't get the two to play together.
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You couldn't whitelist Crucial? I haven't had any problems with Ghostery. I've had some web features break, but it gives me a chance to think about how much I want those features, and I usually don't. If I do, I whitelist the domain, or temporarily turn Ghostery off.

I try to leave ads on small sites I visit, some larger ones too. If the ads get offensive(sound, video, cpu eating Flash...) Adblock goes on.
 
MeowKat said:
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Laugh all you want, but that's why many people - me included - really only surf with AdBlock and the like.

It's not that those sorts of things are on EVERY page, or even that the most obnoxious of them are even all that common. I got to a breaking point on a rollout ad covered all of the content I wanted to see and had no apparent mechanism to dismiss it. Since that day, I've rolled ad-free (mostly).
 
lxskllr said:
You couldn't whitelist Crucial? I haven't had any problems with Ghostery. I've had some web features break, but it gives me a chance to think about how much I want those features, and I usually don't. If I do, I whitelist the domain, or temporarily turn Ghostery off.

I try to leave ads on small sites I visit, some larger ones too. If the ads get offensive(sound, video, cpu eating Flash...) Adblock goes on.
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This.
Or load times.

A few years ago, these forums here had their ads served up by the dynamic.anandtech.com server, and it would constantly hold up page loads. After redirecting it to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file, pages loaded much faster.
So that's the other thing about ads - if you want to serve up ads, stop using a 20MHz 286 server that measures its outgoing bandwidth in seconds per bit.
 
Sorry OP but you (or anyone, not just you) making less money off of Youtube videos is extremely low on the list of things that would make me not use adblock.
 
Noscript / adblock for the reasons Lifted mentioned and they ever so annoying blank page or 10% loaded page that is hung with "Waiting for bighugehonkinads.someadsite.com..." for 10-45 seconds....

No I won't turn it on for you. Guess what, I have Google's text ads unblocked because they don't drive me batty and their API won't hang the page is text ads are not accessible.
 
MotionMan said:
Advertisers need to figure out what kinds of online advertising will work without annoying people. When they do that, then maybe people will not need things like Adblock. Until then, ads are for people too stupid to figure out how to block them.
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A telecom guy came and talked to us when I was getting my undergraduate degree. He stated that there have been ideas floating around where you will hear ads in that tiny window of time between the moment you press send on your cell phone and the phone on the other end starts ringing. He said it would be little blurbs like "THIS CALL BROUGHT TO YOU BY COCA-COLA" or something.

How annoying would that be?
 
The cat is out of the bag. I'm not watching ads that I don't want to. I even watch long pauses of "We cant play our ad" on hulu. Cold day in hell before I start watching that shit. It never even advertises anything I want. It is never right.
 
MeowKat said:
I recently uploaded a video to Youtube that has just crossed 13,000 views in two days. But according to my Adsense account it has only registered about 7000 views. I have other videos and the sum total for the last seven days is about 8500. Total clicks for the week are 65 clicks with $22.50 in income.

I was wondering what the difference was between "monetizable" views vs. actual views. According to my accounting the view count for the week should be closer to 14,000. So then I realized stupid things like Adblock are taking food off my table! :|

If you dont mind, please disable Adblock when you go to Youtube. For the record I mainly use IE9 so I support Anandtech, Youtube and a host of other sites and so should you. 😉
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It could also be that some of the views are mobile and don't show the ads?
 
Ads pay my salary but I use AdBlock because in hate seeing them when I'm online. Hmm, I feel deeply conflicted.
 
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