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[Zeppu]

because of things like this

http://donttrack.us/

http://dontbubble.us/

Wouldn't this save you?

I'm also going to use the pirate argument of 'i wasn't going to buy it anyway' right now and say that I've never in my life clicked an ad. Not once ever. So is me blocking them depriving a site of money still?

Am I just the same as a pirate because I don't make the effort to click through ads?

You're assuming incorrectly people get paid only when ads are clicked.

I honestly forgot that banner ads are meant to be clicked on because I haven't clicked a banner on purpose in years. I think of them as visual advertising and nothing more. That introduces an interesting wrinkle in the "is it piracy" debate, I suppose.

I'm not claiming it's piracy. I'm just saying you're cutting off a revenue stream for someone who is providing content for free.

 

[Kosmo]

On ad blocking, does anyone know if using something like Ad Block deprives a website of 'impressions' revenue, since I assume those ads would be stripped out on the user's end, though they would still be served.

 

[Anteater]

On ad blocking, does anyone know if using something like Ad Block deprives a website of 'impressions' revenue, since I assume those ads would be stripped out on the user's end, though they would still be served.

My friend told me that ads are displayed when an *image call* is made. ad blockers strip out the html that makes the image call so it never gets a chance to load. this prevents an impression from getting made

 

[Ivan A Nguyen]

I've discovered that if a site has an annoying ad that I hate, then I don't go to it anymore. There is nothing on the internet that I absolutely need to see that isn't in 5 other locations.

 

[genjiZERO]

I don't think piracy is seen as "evil" here, just that you'll get banned if you post links to pirated content or pictures of recent magazine scans.... it's about protecting the site, not about moralising.

 

[Kinyou]

The second thing that pushes me to block ads is unskippable ads that play before a video. I really don't have a problem with banner ads all over the periphery of whatever page I'm reading, but when the ads take up a certain amount of my time BEFORE I can see what I want, if I can block them, I will. This is especially true when they play 30 second ads before a minute long clip. Basically, parallel advertising is fine with me. Serial/temporal advertising is unacceptable.

But sometimes this stuff is simply needed. I can for example only watch the Daily Show with Jon Stewart because they release it for free (with ads) on their website. If now everyone would use adblocker they'd stop that service.

 

[Derrick01]

I use it for security purposes, but I take it off for Gaf because it's the rules.

But my PC security takes precedence over anything. When that really nasty virus was going around not too long ago here I was glad it didn't seem to be affecting Chrome users. Whatever that situation was, I never got it thankfully. But I won't lie I was tempted to turn adblock on here until the situation was sorted out, but then I learned what I said above and didn't.

edit: Then again now that I think about it I don't go to many sites outside of gaf anymore because I get most of my news here. My email, facebook, espn and youtube is pretty much all the other sites I use on a normal basis. So I almost don't even need adblock at all since I don't use it on gaf.

 

[XenoRaven]

So I have a noob technical question.

Would disabling Adblock on a page but leaving NoScript on display the ad while blocking any malicious content carried with it?

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

Piracy is bad and so is ad blocking and I would never do either one -.-

 

[Kosmo]

My friend told me that ads are displayed when an *image call* is made. ad blockers strip out the html that makes the image call so it never gets a chance to load. this prevents an impression from getting made

Hmm, I guess that makes sense, so the process is:

1) Browser URL entered
2) Website sends back HTML code
3) Browser parses through HTML (here is where Ad data would be stripped, I guess)
4) Browser requests all elements from server, minus stripped out ads

I guess I assumed that all elements would start getting pushed when the URL is entered and then the ad block would "post process" and just not display the ad, though the server would technically push it.

The more you know.