This isn’t theft, it isn’t theft to block ads. There is this weird idea that ads are okay. We just want you to watch this overly produced video about how good our widget is so that you can get to where you REALLY want to go. This is merely saying “fuck off I don’t want to listen to your propaganda”.
I do not feel bad…

I was fine with pre-video ads until I had to sit through a three minute ad to watch a thirty second video.

The ads on Youtube are just as awful as the ads way back in the popup days, except now they are obnoxiously long as well.

Yep. I started using an adblocker because the ads were so annoying (flashing colours, auto-play audio, pop-ups, etc) and for a while several legit sites I went to ended up running malware in their ads because the company they were using for that wasn’t screening properly. I’m not about to risk my account or computer…

Yeah, I mean, that’s what’s weird about the outrage over people who use ad blockers. Those applications are the consequence of really horrible practices on the part of online advertisers. Like, I think most people are fine with Google’s initial innovation of the non-intrusive, targeted, text-based ad. But most…

The internet is like walking down a street that is well known for bad shit happening all the time, going without protection is just asking someone to come fuck with you.

The autoplaying video banners and pop ups are the reason I started doing it. If advertisers didn’t treat me like shit in such a way, I wouldn’t use AdBlock (and didn’t until last year when I couldn’t take it any more).

I have no problem with ads in general. I don’t necessarily pay attention to them, but I don’t have to for them to “count” and it’s how YTers (for example) make money, so it’s whatever. An ad before a YT video or a small, noticeable but unobtrusive banner ad is fine.

yep nothing more to add. the majority probably did not start using adblock because of some tiny ad on the side of the page

I can’t download adblock on my work computer, and the contrast between my internet experience at home and at work is enormous. I don’t have adblock because I don’t like seeing adds in banners or sidebars; I have it because I don’t like having my entire screen taken over, or having a banner that changes size multiple…

I went to AdBlock when the ads became pervasive and web pages bogged down and froze when ad servers got constipated or whatever. The ad system abused consumers; I get ads shoved at me continually during the day. Enough.

I can’t find anything quickly, but I’m also certain there have been times ad hosts were hijacked with malware. It’s just self preservation by this point.

I have tried... I watched last nights episode of South Park on Hulu, and I ended up seeing the same Subway ad five times. Youtube is usually no better, showing me the same ads over and over again, and the only reason I use Adblock is so I don’t have to click on the skip button every time I watch a video. I never buy…

This. Even though a lot of that is gone now, I still don’t like ads on a lot of sites because they just get in the freaking way. I don’t use an ad blocker on my phone like I do on my PC, and god it is a nightmare when ever pop-up ads show up. Even on my 6’ screen the X’s are impossibly small. 1/3 times I’ll end up…

To be fair, I keep ads unblocked for Youtube (and some other sites) because I want to support the people making content, and every time I get a 45 second long unskippable ad for San Pellegrino that blares music 5x louder than the video I’m watching I question why I’m doing it.

You forgot that the new round is by and large as bad as the old one.

Not to mention malware.

The internet fired the first shot, by making us so wary of online ads (throughs pop ups, autoplays, sounds, epilepsy inducing light effects, etc.) that no one even wants to give the new round of ads a chance.

That would actually make it so we could find bullshit though.

I wonder if more people would read EULAs if they came in a form with a plainspeak version that references the full version and what subsection to find stuff in it.