Ad Blockers

Does anyone here use ad blockers?

[Kufu]

Does anyone, who makes a living or has supplemental income generated from ads, use ad blockers?

This has always seemed hypocritical to me.

In fact there are FireFox extensions for blocking Google Ads.

If the ads on a page seemed to intrusive, I just avoid that site. Why punish other people who are trying to make a living by preventing their site from displaying advertisements.

[tangor]

Yes.

[Old_Honky]

Yes I block ads because they can be too intrusive, in the same way I sometimes switch channels or mute the sound on the TV, or skip pages in the newspaper to miss ads.

I think it is perfectly acceptable to block ads. If people are forced to read advertisements the advertisements can have the opposite effect to the one the advertiser expected.

I don't block interesting ads, at least I don't block them the first few times I am subjected to them.

I want to read web pages that interest me not advertisements that don't.

[Lord Majestic]

People who block ads are highly unlikely to click on those ads anyway - by actually not loading those ads up they effectively increase your CTR and reduce worthless clicks.

[thecoalman]

I know specific filters will work.. e.g ones that block just Google or other major ad networks. I don't use them.

One thing I'll warn anyone about is using a standard overly broad filter such as the ones typically marketed by the large anti-virus makers.

Not sure if this list is still accurate but Norton Ad-Blocker can very well block a significant amount of images or other content based on image size, folder name, file name etc. whether its ads or not.

This was actually one of my first posts here, it's too easy for them to block legitimate content.

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