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Originally Posted by deltav
Again, the problem is that for years ads were totally overboard and just vomited at the surfer, our industry was of course one of the worst - slowing, freezing, crashing browsers and just generally looking like shit. IMO if any restraint had been used across the board most surfers wouldn't be trying to block them.
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Originally Posted by woj
"ironic" is a bit of an understatement... not sure if you guys failed to ponder this for a second or what, but a tool like adblocker reduces most webmasters' income... how could you all so openly support it or are you all surfers or something?
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As a surfer and an online consumer and youtube watcher, I am just tired of ALL of the ads.
If I'm watching youtube the ads presented to me should be (1) In the general context of what I'm surfing for, (2) let me opt-out of watching a whole ad after a few seconds and (3) be in my own language. Lately all I see are french-speaking 30 second ads for shit I have no interest in that I can't opt out of. Sorry french advertisers, I'm using Adblocker.
Next is just general surfing for porn. I enter my search keywords and begin clicking and find an interesting site and maybe kinda consider possibly maybe paying for more services but FUCK NO, I'm bombarded with pop-ups and pop-unders and pop-sideways and robotic chat boxes and shit and piss and crap.
We all rely on ads to make money but treating customers like idiots is the best way to go out of business.