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I get so bloody tired of this "it's stealing", what a bunch of horse crap. Same logic could be applied to ads ares "stealing" my bandwidth that "I" pay for.



Not if one uses a decent adblocker and isn't too aggressive. The only real hammer I use personally is use my host file to block domains like doubleclick, the malware it's pushed is way too overboard.



The obsessive use of ads on most websites today is the reason why adblock is so popular. Just like most mainstream magazines and broadcast media renders their content useless with the shear amount of extreme ads they saturate their content with. They went overboard and adblocking is the result of their greed.

I run a site and I have zero ads other than a couple of causes I champion. But it's small, unobtrusive, unlike in your face flash garbage.

Well, if some media are so greedy that they don't care about they customers, they just deserve one less user in my opinion.

This is one of the reasons why I almost never listen to the radio or watch TV. Though the "mute" button of the TV was a great invention in that regard.

About magazines and newspapers, those I read have again a reasonable amount of ads...

If everyone considered things this way, it would like as a mean of natural selection : only those who have a reasonable ad policy would survive.

Oh please, every other week now some site I go to decides to add more crap like intelitext or some massive box that is impossible to close as the close button scrolls with the page and is visible for such a short amount that a Quake twitcher hooped up on enough caffeine to kill an entire herd of moose couldn't click it.

It's better to use a scorched earth policy to the ads and judge them by actual content and community. If the greedy site owners want to get butthurt about adblock they are welcome to block adblock users in return if we really are leeching them of sooo much money.

It would have never become a problem if they had any sense about it they wouldn't have gotten the ire of anyone that has figured out hoe to google "advertisement blocking", what makes them think anyone on say HardOCP would care about an ad for Tide on a motherboard review page? Fun fact, this is what you actually get there.

If they want something less stupid they could use the IP address and the page content to find the product or equivalent competing products and their prices from shops that ship to the country that your IP is allocated to.