Stop, Thief! Why Using an Ad Blocker Is Stealing

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BearGraphics

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In response to advertisements and I AM A GRAPHICS DESIGNER.... I PAY for my phone to talk to people with which I desire to have a conversation.... I PAY for my cable to watch TV NOT ADVERTISEMENTS which is why I have a DVR and watch EVERYTHING a day late so I can ZOOM THROUGH COMMERCIALS.... what if YOU PAID to sit down at a four star restaurant to have dinner but for several minutes beforehand, several people came to sell you timeshares, the latest form of exotic shoes and a really sweet deal on Direct TV? Would you just sit there and think to yourself "I am willing to put up with this because the food is just that good!" I really doubt it. So when you get stuff for "FREE" then hey advertise away, but don't invade my PAID SUBSCRIPTION....
 

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You Sir are a "Fine Upstanding Fellow"! Your diatribe against ad-blockers, your superior intellect and vehement defense of bull crap I don't want to see, has totally opened my eye's......... NOT!

I have no intentions of trying to figure out if I'm gonna get a glimpse of a new delicious pizza for my trouble or be redirected 40 times until I end up on a page that you can't close and can't back out of and you end up having to shut down your browser.

By Tom's staff's on admission, they have NO CONTROL OVER THE ADVERTISEMENTS DISPLAYED ON THERE PAGES!

As far as your observation on how few ads there are on one of Tom's pages, well......... there are none on mine when I view it, which is exactly the number I was shooting for. I am well aware of the advent of Pizza; I just don't give two shiny "Rays of Sunshine" about an advertisement for it getting in the way of a GPU review!

Feel free to suck on those glorious ads until your eyeballs cave in, I myself have the desire and the technology to not be bothered by a damn one of them and that's the way it's gonna stay!

Boy, I could really go for some pizza about now! LMAO!!!

 

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I've never frequented a site for very long when I thought an adblocker was necessary to view it. I've never even considered an ad blocker, nor do I consider clicking ads. I will however be installing a full adblocker because of this ridiculous thread.

Trying to shove products down someone's throat is no better than taking small amounts of their money at a time. On my radio, on my Pandora, on TV, on every website. When will advertisers stop?

Edit: I can thank a stupid persistent "Logan University" ad for my grammatical errors in this very post.....
 

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i have seen many pc with too many ads showing up even while browsing wikipedia, and after taking a look i found that they use torrents, have improper or outdated or expired antivirus, frequently visits sites with "those" videos, and then they complain like i can't browse a site because i get 40 pages opened and needs to restart my pc

i can see that users can't stop viewing that type of videos and can't stop using pirated softwares and see lots of ads there, so you can use ad blocker there and can whitelist toms and other sites which you browse to get help this will help more instead of just saying thanks when you get what you wanted to know

the money you pay to your isp doesn't go to any sites you browse
the only way they get money to run their site, manage infrastructure, pay employees for their efforts is by using ads or by charging subscription money ( just like whatsapp, which does not show ads but charge subscription money, or like facebook which does not charge subscription but show ads and pages )
 

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TRUEGENIUS - dont tar everyone with your own brush !!!!! Why do you think that we all look at porn sites all day long?? I mainly browse computer based sites that have nearly always been recommended by users on "TOMS". I never click on anything that comes up on a website unless I know from other sources that it is safe. Call me boring if you like but at 66 I have had enough agro in the past without inviteing it by opening up unknown sites on the internet! Or are your comments on here just there to "get other readers uptight"??
 

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I for one like "those sites" and I don't get malware. Most of my customers are either middle aged or older and they end up with Malware because they think they are clicking on an internal link for the site they are on (usually news sites) and end up at an external site downloading some "helpful add-in". An adblocker isn't a preference for people who aren't in the know, it is more an antimalware program.
 

truegenius

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^ people like that does not generally visit tech sites, for them adblocker are indeed like antimalware, if they visit create account and ask question then they have enough knowledge to use internet safely
and indeed these memebers are the ones which contributes to tech sites most
but looking at comments of people in this thread it is clear that they don't even want to spend fraction of their internet bandwidth ( they can waste it on watching cat videos ) for supporting sites they freauently help to read GPU reviews etc

@garryash, why you feeling offended, i didn't even mentioned you or adult videos that you are talking about, that was your perception of vision which lead you to think like this
that was indeed my job experience when i used to have AMC's of my many customer's numerous PC's, and i just shared that experience here
 

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here is a very interesting article about how the ad game "allegedly" works https://moz.com/blog/online-advertising-fraud

very interesting read and if it is even close to true it sure puts a heck of a twist to any argument about the pros and cons of online ads. it basically says 90+% of a company's online ad budget is scammed away by a combination of ad agencies, ad serving services and websites who combine to create fake page traffic (thus fake ad views) and split the cash through a series of kickbacks and "service fees". the actual company paying for the ads sees almost no true human eyes on their ads and of course only a tiny fraction of those yield true clicks on the ads, making almost everything spent totally wasted money!!

 
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