What do you think of the AdBlock Campaign?

It's ok to put some not too annoying ad in your website. I mean, you gotta get the money to run it from somewhere. But ads have gone way too far. From scams to incredibly annoying flash ads that slow your PC down, eventually I stopped caring about websites that did that, and activated AdBlock to not let them annoy me anymore. It's their fault, not mine.
I still keep AdBlock off of websites that kept ads to the minnimum annoyance, because they diserve it for that.

I don't use AdBlock I use this instead. It works for everything I use online not just my browser. Using the HOST file is stronger imho.

*edit to give a better description of how it works and what it does in the link.

Ads about Adblock. How ironic. lol

I guess if you don't care about ever having free content made by people like Giant Bomb, GameSpot, IGN, Total Biscuit, Classic Game Room, or anyone who stands to benefit from having ads played, then I guess you can support them. I personally don't want to see content providers robbed of all of their income leaving only not-for-profit and free YouTubers/websites that can't afford to provide things of a professional or at least resembling some standard of quality level.

I don't click on any ads, ever. I'm not interested in their bullshit. So they don't lose any money from me blocking their spam. And god forbid youtubers/streamers get a job, instead of getting paid to play fucking games

I don't really understand why anyone would want everyone to stop seeing ads. Sure, I don't want to ever see another ad again anywhere, not just on the internet, but I enjoy the benefits of other people wasting their brains/time on ads.

I'm pretty indifferent towards it. I don't have any experience or knowledge on running a site of any substantial size (or using ads for revenue) but I doubt you can run a site on ads alone. Besides, as long as the advertisements have the capacity to be a vector for malware and viruses, there is a good reason to block them beyond simple annoyance or interruption.

Supporting the sites you like or regularly use is great, but people are also free to modify their own browsing experience as they see fit. No matter what happens, the online environment will adjust to compensate. Whether it is a positive or negative change overall remains to be seen, we can only make guesses. Such is the nature of emergent phenomenon.

They say it would change internet as we know it... yes it would. As in many sites would be strapped for cash since they rely on ad revenue to keep going. A lot of websites that we take for granted, including this one, NEED the ad revenue. Does that mean I'm against Adblock? Hell no. I love it and use it. But I do put in exceptions for good sites like steamgifts.

So I'm kind of both ways on this. I love adblock but I don't think it becoming wide spread will be have a positive effect on the internet. If too many people use adblock I'm sure the advertisers will think of some other more annoying way than a banner to deliver these ads to you; whether it be a simple coding trick to bypass adblock or a completely different approach to advertising that I couldn't even fathom.

I don't care

Fun fact: after my cousin started using some-way-of-adblocking, he could use his mobile internet with full speed for few more days in every month.

It's bullshit .

Why can't they just let idiots with their adds enabled ?

I do use AdBlock but, mostly to remove annoying-things-I-don't-care-about from pages.

What's this? You got a huge top banner with the name of your site? blocked

Oh, buttons/sidebars/banners/WHATEVER about insert any social media here that I will never use but make scrolling slower blocked

Hey, a square thing that follows me around the page with another article/page/item/whatever. Annoying. gone

They thought adding a default avatar to people who don't have one was intelligent, huh? Too bad that sucks for 1 line posts. POOF

Someone thought having a huge image for a signature was nice? lolno

Oh look, these forums have an annoying "registar plox" thing that cover part of the page. nothnx

Oh, my bank thought having a HUGE banner appear at the center of the page (plus a site-wide overlay), EVERY DAY I visit their website, to tell me important things like "don't share your PIN" would be useful? F U, I'm not that stupid

I'll look for some Chrome addon that can hide stuff like AdBlock does so that I can both hide annoying things while keeping sites whitelisted.

To be honest, I'm pissed off people which are using AdBlock. Okay, some sites have ads everywhere they possibly can and it's pretty annoying, but I can handle it somehow by ignoring it. It's better than installing AdBlock. I like to support my favorite sites, my favorite YouTubers or streamers. So that's my point of view.. And making an ad of AdBlock? Oh the irony..

It's stupid. I mean i do use AdBlock, but i disable it for Youtube, Twitch.tv and sites that i enjoy and know that people depend on ads. So yeah i think that campaing against ads is stupid.

I do not want the websites to become fee-based, so why not watch 20 seconds comedy like "<company's name removed> Aqua Clean, cleans your * with water" (sorry if you think i would currently do ads, it is not my intention). Always some fun and Ads help me detect if my soundspeakers are currently on or off...so I have time to turn them on for real videos :D

And the ones that are just Ad pictures, well I don't care. I ignore them

I agree that it defeats the purpose of AdBlock.. And really, its popular enough. I found out about it through word of mouth as did many of my friends.

weird, why should force people to use adblock, if they don't mind with ads then leave them be

The campaign is a bit silly, if you ask me.

And yes I love Adblock. Can't use internet without it. Sorry but my bandwidth is more precious than wasting it to load some flash or video ads that I don't want to see.

I like to see adsense and other non-intrusive ads. It helps page owners and it is not a bother.
What I hate is flash and sound ads, pop-ups and pop-unders, background ads on gaming websites and other look at my ad, my ad is amazing idiocy.

So yeah, I'm among those 7 that see ads.

I think adblock is kind of unfair. Ads help keep sites running without them having to charge you to use them. I think it's downright selfish to think that you deserve to not have any ads but you should still be allowed full access to a site, even if the ads are irrelevant/stupid.

Honestly this problem has been caused by very agressive and intrusive ads.
Very annoying when you have low bw and/or limited transfer, somesites go from totally unusable to usable, just by blocking ads :)

If it was only standard static ~400x60 or other non-intrusive content-related (for pretty good example game ads on bottom of this site!) ad I wouldn't probably block, but that multiple ads taking up to 75% of screen at 1920x1200 with audio/expand on hover, not to mention popups/popunders etc. (I do use whitelisting for non-intrusive)

I've been using Adblock since like 5 days after it came out. Never made an exception for any site and never will. I'd rather pay for sites than see a single ad.

I haven't had a single virus since installing adblock and noscript. Before that I had so many issues that I was having to format my computer almost monthly to resolve issues caused by viruses or nasty spyware.

Nothing had changed about my browsing habits besides that. I'm sticking with using adblock because the ads sure don't respect my computer.

1. It doesn't defeat the purpose.

2. It will only ruin the websites that are based solely on ad pushing.

3. Ads are in essence just a form of spam, because they are not requested by anyone. Also an "ad" is not information about a product, but it could be a form of misinformation or disinformation regarding a domain.

I'll only say that the last time my computer got infected the virus came from an ad in a highly popular comedy site in Spain (steamrolling the Avira).
I know nothing it's free but the security of my pc comes first for me.