what do you think about ad blocking?
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how many of you block ads? I am increasingly finding that access to links from the Daily News are denied and the content replaced by "you are using an adblocker". My reaction generally is to leave and not bother with the info so it feels like shooting themselves in the foot I am actually not using an adblocker but just have an extensive hosts file. Primarily to try and protect from sites that I don't want to end up at even accidentally Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them? and if you do, how many of you skip the ads on your video recorder?
That's what I do too. Mine is over 600KB right now and I add new entries every week.
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Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them?
No, I most definitely do not agree. I have granted no one the right to make me see anything.
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That's what I do too. Mine is over 600KB right now and I add new entries every week.
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Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them?
No, I most definitely do not agree. I have granted no one the right to make me see anything.
Rick York wrote:
Mine is over 600KB right now and I add new entries every week.
My hat is off to you! :thumbsup:
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how many of you block ads? I am increasingly finding that access to links from the Daily News are denied and the content replaced by "you are using an adblocker". My reaction generally is to leave and not bother with the info so it feels like shooting themselves in the foot I am actually not using an adblocker but just have an extensive hosts file. Primarily to try and protect from sites that I don't want to end up at even accidentally Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them? and if you do, how many of you skip the ads on your video recorder?
Ad blockers are fine, I use one and also have a huge hosts file. I think the site is also OK if they block access when they spot an ad blocker. I also think it is fine if the site requires $ubscription for access. Today, it is fairly easy to get the information I want by other means. When that stops, I will consider the alternatives. This is how business and the world operate. I would like to see an email service that charges for each email, that would stop a lot of spam. We pay a "mail washer" service to block spam and malware. They block 90% of the email to the server. I would never block Codeproject :) Would I pay for Codeproject? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
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how many of you block ads? I am increasingly finding that access to links from the Daily News are denied and the content replaced by "you are using an adblocker". My reaction generally is to leave and not bother with the info so it feels like shooting themselves in the foot I am actually not using an adblocker but just have an extensive hosts file. Primarily to try and protect from sites that I don't want to end up at even accidentally Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them? and if you do, how many of you skip the ads on your video recorder?
I do not block ads. I only block things that are violating my privacy by tracking me (even after setting the "do not track" flag of my browser to inform them that I do not wish to be tracked). I have not seen an ad in many months. I use Privacy Badger (in chrome and firefox) and have not seen any websites that will not load.
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how many of you block ads? I am increasingly finding that access to links from the Daily News are denied and the content replaced by "you are using an adblocker". My reaction generally is to leave and not bother with the info so it feels like shooting themselves in the foot I am actually not using an adblocker but just have an extensive hosts file. Primarily to try and protect from sites that I don't want to end up at even accidentally Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them? and if you do, how many of you skip the ads on your video recorder?
I've never bothered with ad blockers implemented as browser plugins as they tend to cause more problems than they're worth - not to mention that this approach means you have to have a blocker on each device on your network. Even host files need to be updated on each machine, so I don't find it to be particularly effective either. Not to mention you don't *have* access to a hosts file on some devices. I've settled on [Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/), which is essentially a DNS server combined with a domain blacklist. I run it on a tiny Linux VM running on a machine that's turned on 24/7 anyway. As long as your devices use it for DNS, they *all* get ad-blocking, including PCs, tablets, phones, smart TVS, gaming consoles, etc. [Edit] As I'm writing this, 108,896 domains are being blocked. I can add my own custom domains (and whitelists), but I find that generally whatever it comes with and gets updated with works well enough.
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how many of you block ads? I am increasingly finding that access to links from the Daily News are denied and the content replaced by "you are using an adblocker". My reaction generally is to leave and not bother with the info so it feels like shooting themselves in the foot I am actually not using an adblocker but just have an extensive hosts file. Primarily to try and protect from sites that I don't want to end up at even accidentally Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them? and if you do, how many of you skip the ads on your video recorder?
I do not use an adblocker or maintain a hosts file. Usually, the sites I go to aren't too bad with ads anyway. I have to admit to becoming annoyed when I have to wait more than a few seconds for a web page to finish loading due to ads/videos/feeds/etc. If the content is worth it, I'll wait or move on and let it finish...if not, then it's goodbye and on to the next item. As for the ads themselves, I pretty much ignore them and skip when given a chance.
MikeD 2 wrote:
Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them?
I agree that they paid for ad space/time and have the right to pitch their wares in a nonintrusive manner, that is a quick loading visual/text in a predictable place. If I'm interested, I'll click, if not, then I just ignore it. What I hate is the 'in your face' approach where you have to click/skip through their pitch before viewing what I came there for. :mad:
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how many of you block ads? I am increasingly finding that access to links from the Daily News are denied and the content replaced by "you are using an adblocker". My reaction generally is to leave and not bother with the info so it feels like shooting themselves in the foot I am actually not using an adblocker but just have an extensive hosts file. Primarily to try and protect from sites that I don't want to end up at even accidentally Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them? and if you do, how many of you skip the ads on your video recorder?
I've been using uBlock Origin, but may drop it due to a) too many false positives (blocking things that aren't ads) and b) too often it doesn't appear to block actual ads!
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MikeD 2 wrote:
how many of you block ads?
I do not but this topic has been here before and I can tell you a lot of people do. I find it odd that software developers in particular are OK with blocking ads. We, of all people, should understand the need for a website to earn money and blocking their ads is stealing because you get the content without paying for it. I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority here. Granted, I don't go to sites that have lots of ads. If someone here links to a site with lots of ads that lock up my browser, I just close the site and move on. Most sites, that I go to, do not run enough ads to be a bother.
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blocking their ads is stealing
[ :laugh: ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-XKtcfQJMw&feature=youtu.be&t=5m38s)
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I go further than just blocking ads. I use an Ad-Blocker, Ghostery, No-Script (on Firefox), with an HTML5 Auto-Play Disabler. When it comes to websites with an Ad-Blocker wall, if I really want to see, I use a small program that I wrote to perform an HTTP GET request and displays it's pure text return. More often then not, the content I want is in the response buried along with a thousand lines of anti-ad-blocking javascript. If this advertiser<>ad-blocker war continues to escalate, I might consider writing a very light weight web browser of my own that parses out everything but text content with the option of downloading images with a click.
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how many of you block ads? I am increasingly finding that access to links from the Daily News are denied and the content replaced by "you are using an adblocker". My reaction generally is to leave and not bother with the info so it feels like shooting themselves in the foot I am actually not using an adblocker but just have an extensive hosts file. Primarily to try and protect from sites that I don't want to end up at even accidentally Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them? and if you do, how many of you skip the ads on your video recorder?
MikeD 2 wrote:
Do you agree that if people buy ads that they have a right to make you see them?
That's like saying just because I spend money growing coca leaves I have a right make people use cocaine. Um, hypothetically. :laugh:
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I'd unblock ads, if we could guarantee that they were all static images, with no flashing or annoying animation, and no scripts. No video or audio; no popups/popunders; no redirecting to malware or tech-support scams; no cryptocurrency mining; no tracking my every move across the Internet. Unfortunately, I suspect the horse has already bolted. There have been too many cases of even the best behaved ad networks being compromised and tricked into showing malvertising. No matter what promises they make, I'm unlikely to ever trust them enough to turn the ads back on. Something like Brave[^] seems like a promising alternative.
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And no pictures of people or animals.
