No one is saying that they can’t use ads to support their site. What I’m getting from this is that sites that choose to use obnoxious and intrusive ads push people to use an ad-blocker which hurts their revenue. However, if ads weren’t intrusive or obnoxious then their income would be unharmed. There is absolutely…

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…

I will stop using AdBlock when sites stop using obnoxious adds.

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.