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[Eddie7]

I hate and love adblocker at the same time.

Love reason: Because it gets rid of all the messy ads on the web page.

Hate reason: Because if you own your own site, it decreases your chance to earn money by A LOT.

Damn, I wish the internet would remove adblocker.

[+Crisp]

I only use it for torrent sites...

Or do I? Hehehehehehehehehe!

[+littleneutrino]

and is exactly why there is a white list function built in.

[Eddie7]

littleneutrino, on 08 December 2012 - 01:54, said:

and is exactly why there is a white list function built in.

I'm talking about random sites you visit. I'm pretty sure you don't whitelist all sites you visit?

[Detection]

Eddie7, on 08 December 2012 - 01:55, said:

I'm talking about random sites you visit. I'm pretty sure you don't whitelist all sites you visit?

All ads can **** off, if there is a blocker, I`ll block them

If a site deserves supporting (such as Neowin which I will be re-sub'ing to soon) then they'`ll get my money, ads will not.

[TPreston]

lol adblockers, Secure Gateway FTW block them from any device on the LAN

[DavidM]

Eddie7, on 08 December 2012 - 01:50, said:

I hate and love adblocker at the same time.

Love reason: Because it gets rid of all the messy ads on the web page.

Hate reason: Because if you own your own site, it decreases your chance to earn money by A LOT.

Damn, I wish the internet would remove adblocker.

You can't have it both ways, YOU block sites to get rid of the messy ads, then complain about it costing YOU money on your site?

Eddie7, on 08 December 2012 - 01:55, said:

I'm talking about random sites you visit. I'm pretty sure you don't whitelist all sites you visit?

I don't trust most of the people I know to put things on my computer, why would I trust some random website to have my best interest in their minds/hearts/site?

[Guth]

I'm of the mentality of block everything. I get that you won't earn much money, but as said ads are not the only way to make money.
Ads drive people away IMO. Good content brings them in and possibly makes them pay if good enough.

I use adblock on everything (except my own sites for testing - just in case it blocks something it shouldn't. The sites i've made have never had an ad. Not one put there by me anyway!)

Also, do people really click ads nowadays? I always tell my computer-illiterate family members/friends "NEVER click ads, especially ones that say you win something"

[Growled]

The problem is ad providers. Adblock wouldn't be necessary if the ads were un-intrusive.

[Eddie7]

DavidM, on 08 December 2012 - 03:40, said:

You can't have it both ways, YOU block sites to get rid of the messy ads, then complain about it costing YOU money on your site?

I'm talking about I'd rather have no adblocker at all and make everyone see the ads.

[Andrew Lyle]

Do what buyandsellads does.. Disable the CSS for pages with Adblock. Cell your CSS file "ad.css" and I bet it disables it. You can also include a message that you shouldn't use Adblock on your browser to view the site correctly.

[Eddie7]

Andrew Lyle, on 08 December 2012 - 06:47, said:

Do what buyandsellads does.. Disable the CSS for pages with Adblock. Cell your CSS file "ad.css" and I bet it disables it. You can also include a message that you shouldn't use Adblock on your browser to view the site correctly.

Yeah was thinking about that, thanks for the reminder!

[Lord Method Man]

^ Yeah excellent way to make people avoid your site entirely!

[68k]

Ad blockers are a must-have for me - it's the first plugin I install. They save bandwidth, and reduce browser/plugin CPU load. And no more annoying animated ads on web pages.

Seriously, who clicks on ads? I've never seen the reason to. And a lot of them, I wouldn't trust anyway - especially how they track users.

I even tape shows on TV so I can fast forward the ads. Ads and myself - we just don't mix.

[+Blank]

I pay yearly for AdMuncher. Best system wide adblocker.

I don't feel too bad bout blocking ads due to the fact that i'm never going to ever purposely click on the ads to begin with.
Only time i ever clicked on an as was by accident.

It's a horrible way to attempt to make money. There are way better methods.

I never understood the "then stay off my site" mentality either. Really, You're only whoring your work out for a cent here and there?

I'd feel bad if the 5 visitors that goto all my sites a year would have to be spammed with ads.