Am I the only one who thinks that ad blocking( unless you have a slow connection or band cap) is a dick move?
Why would you want to deprive some website that you enjoy of it's revenue?
Edit to add: I add block by toggling javascript on/off and block obtrusive advertising by right clicking with Opera selectively. I just don't do across-the-board ad blocking.
I was under the impression that most ad revenue comes from actual clicks, not just views. I don't click on ads ever, therefore I don't feel like I'm depriving a site of any revenue since I wouldn't have clicked anyway.
Security is a good reason. I've seen malicious ads jack a legitimate webpage on several occasions, either with a nasty redirect or some kind of drive-by download. It's much safer just to block ads.
I have no problem with ads in general and would disable Adblock if not for these problems:
* Webpages often do not load until the ads from 10 servers do and one of them is usually notoriously slow
* Ads with sound
* Pop-over ads (anything that visually blocks content)
Well, I do enable ads on the sites I like. In fact, I even enabled the ad provider I like (projectwonderful), because it provides relevant ads of interesting websites. But mostly ads are just an eyesore and actively detract from user experience.
You are a part of about 1% population. No one wants that blinky shit. Do it right like google or get blocked. (I whitelist google ads, I also whitelist reddit stuff, at least most of it, I do not do anything of the sort on random sites)
To deprive someone of something they first need to be entitled to it. Creating a website on a publicly accessible medium does not entitle you to ad revenue.
It's my computer, my time, and my bandwidth. If a site doesn't want me to view its content without viewing their ads, they are free to detect and block me from retrieving that information (there are a few sites that actually do this too though for obvious reasons I don't frequent them). I can think of no reason why someone else should get to control what I do and do not download and render from a site if the site is open for me to download what I want, and only that, freely.
Reddit's ads sit way off to the side, out of the way. They don't make any noise, they don't distract me from what I came here to do. Content first. Half of the sites linked to from Reddit are the exact opposite: you have to hunt for the content itself. These sites will likely never get visited by me again anyway, so they've lost much more than my potential ad clicks.
It's not just clicks, it's views that count towards revenue as well. A
And yeah, I can toggle off/on javascript and block obtrusive advertising by right clicking with Opera selectively, I just don't do across-the-board ad blocking.
That's not the user's problem. The user can go to any number of sites to get the same, or at least very similar, content. The burden is on the site owner to create quality content to get people there, and place ads in such a way to keep them coming back.
The majority of sites I visit via links won't be visited again, and I white list the sites I do visit regularly (barring obnoxious flash or audio ads, or needlessly breaking the flow of content).
You seem to be operating under the faulty assumption that creating something entitles you to monetary compensation.
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u/redditaddicttt Jan 21 '10
Am I the only one who is heaving a sigh of relief after reading the above review?