But was it a .txt file, or a .json file?

wait, hasn’t the world already decided that Chris Brown is a piece of shit?

Tree life might be better than home life?

If this crook can’t speak for himself, let the people who’ve been ripped off speak for him.

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…

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.

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 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.

Ten times this. Uncontrolled advertising on the internet is the real reason why people take in ad block etc. I wrote a piece about it, sadly it is danish, but feel free to check it with a translater.

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.

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.

UN Resolution #4106. It also lets the US decide what’s actually football.

Its the modern equivalent of a crossroads demon. Why bother with the whole summoning ordeal if you can just have people “agree to” your contracts and conditions this way!