Two things that torque me:
- websites like fox news with a video running at the top of every page. You page down past the video and it starts to run in a small side box. It’s annoying to have to close that box.
- telephone solicitors that spoof local numbers to get you to answer.
This is why I love FR. You can click a thread and never see a pop up. Yet when some one links to a source, and you click the link and are inundated with ads and pop-ups, you have no choice but to close the link and go back to the thread.
When that happens, we should click report abuse. We need to start alerting the moderators to start deleting threads that link to useless and unreadable sources.
I was nice and disabled my ad blocker on a website recently (don’t even recall which site).
My browser was hit with DOZENS of ads and junk. It took a while for them all to load, and of course, the browser was stalled until it finished.
I then re-blocked the website. It wasn’t worth the load of crap.
I use AdBlock Plus and Ghostery both turned up full blast.
Another ‘blocker’ I find most useful is Reader View which takes the web site and turns it into very readable text while eliminating all the ads, autostart videos and other garbage that detracts from the web site. I really appreciate it. It is available is a browser plug-in.
Try it.
I have a TiVo Bolt and it still has skip for many cable channels. There are some channels it does not work on, however.
I seldom use my cable company’s On Demand because many of the providers’ TV shows/movies have as many ads as the original broadcast and the cable company disables fast forward.
It is bad enough to have to sit through commercials. They take up about 1/3 of each hour, leaving about 2/3 hour for actual programs.
I like to binge, so I let programs stack up on my TiVo.
Been using the Brave browser more often. it has ad-block built-in without actually blocking. It “absorbs” the ad content and never displayed it on the screen.
we all do it...he talks about the “internet” when he means the WWW.
Won’t click on Daily Caller, Business Insider, Washington Times and many others who are obnoxious about their efforts to get you to disable your ad blocker. I can get my info elsewhere. If you business model requires those ads, you are going to die out.
I have no burning need to read anyone’s content. If they just had static ads I wouldn’t care, but I got tired of videos popping up and running by themselves, clickbait ads blocking the article etc. so I installed adblock. If they don’t want me to read without putting up with all that fine. I won’t read their articles.
Cumulus media recently implemented a mandatory registration/login to listen to their streaming content. This affects people who like to listen to their affiliated AM radio stations on the net. Inconvenient and invasive since one has to listen through all the advertising content anyway which is their bread and butter. I suppose contact info gives them something else to sell.
What amuses me is when I get ads for the thing I just bought.
No I don’t need another Ibanez SG. No I don’t need another RCA tablet. Lol.
I just switched from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin and it works on https://www.washingtontimes.com/ where Adblock didn’t.
I’ll do some more testing.
I use an ad blocker because so many sites have so many ads that the site is un-viewable without one. If they require me to disable the ad blocker I just ignore it and just leave the site .... probably not worth the effort anyway.
There are several websites that block my access if I don’t remove my adblocker, such as Business Insider. So, I don’t patronize those sites any more. I don’t need any malware, thank you.
There’s a ton of news websites that won’t let you onto their site until you turn off ad-blockers or white-list them. Whatever. They act like going to their site is some kind of great privilege. Quit bombarding me with annoying ads and I’ll quit blocking them, how about that? Don’t bitch at me, I’m not the problem here.