Posted October 6, 2019 Don't worry, i wont cuss you out for using an adblocker. Im just curious first of all, i am aware there is 4 major types of adblock users, Ads are annoying and i dont care about the websites i visit losing a couple dollars I dont want companies spying on me and tracking me Just me wont make a huge difference (the stupid person) I already pay for my PC and internet So i am just curious, which one are you and why? I also have a few questions: What category do you fall in? Do you compensate websites by donating to them? How often do you use an ad blocker? do you "whitelist" any sites? if you use one for privacy reasons, do you pay for services (example, yt premium, "memberships" for websites, etc.) If you said you do it because you dont care about websites and ads are just super annoying, why do you feel entitled to keep using their services? For example, if you constanly upload 4k youtube videos and make money, and you watch youtube all day, but still dont let ads play. It feels un ethical to me, but thats just me. if you said you already pay for your internet and therefore everything on the internet should be free, you do realize you are only paying for a cable going to your home to your isp to the rest of the world and the cost of maintaining it, right? why do you use one if you dont meet any category above? My opinion: I think ad filters, like blocking harmful ads is okay. but to block all, is kind of bad. I mean if everyone did it, rip all free services. approx. 30 million people in the USA use adblockers. imagine paying for everything, youtube, ltt forum, reddit, twitter, facebook, amazon, ebay, everything. Edit: One more thing, SCREW YOUTUBE FOR ADDING DOUBLE ADS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 6, 2019 Depends on the websites. Heres a couple major ones for me: eBay: They already take an exorbitant amount out of what I make, so fuck them. Craigslist: Do they even show ads? I've never seen an ad on CL even on devices without adblock. Amazon: They take enough of my money via amazon Prime, which gets bumped in price basically every year. LTT Forums: From what I understand mixed with simple reasoning, most of LTT's ad revenue is generated by things that can't be blocked anyways, such as their sponsor spots in videos. Whatever they lose off that massive madrinas coffee ad is pennies compared to what theyre already making. YT: I donate to all of the creators I support, I feel as if this makes up for it and them some because I donate via Streamlabs or Paypal, which do not take massive cuts like YT Super Chat does. Reddit: I don't feel bad for Advance Publications. Twitter: Super don't feel bad for Jack Dorsey either. Facebook: Fucc zucc Other questions: I donate whenever I can I don't whitelist any sites, I just pause the adblock manually should I need to. I don't think I meet any of the 4 criteria above, so I'll answer... I use an adblock because I find it the only way my voice can be heard even in the slightest to massive companies, also makes getting virus' less likely even though I am a fairly adept person with PC's. If I ever want/need to download something sketch I use a VM. Brands I wholeheartedly reccomend (though do have flawed products): Apple, Razer, Corsair, Asus, Gigabyte, bequiet!, Noctua, Fractal, GSkill (RAM only) Wall Of Fame (Informative people/People I like): @Glenwing @DrMacintosh @Schnoz @TempestCatto @LogicalDrm @Dan Castellaneta Useful threads: How To Make Your Own Cloud Storage Spoiler Guide to Display Cables/Adapters Spoiler PSU Tier List (Latest)- Spoiler Main PC: See spoiler tag Laptop: 2020 iPad Pro 12.9" with Magic Keyboard Spoiler PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gKh8zN CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core OEM/Tray Processor (Purchased For $419.99) Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula ATX AM4 Motherboard (Purchased For $356.99) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (Purchased For $130.00) Storage: Kingston Predator 240 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (Purchased For $40.00) Storage: Crucial MX300 1.05 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $100.00) Storage: Western Digital Red 8 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $180.00) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card (Purchased For $370.00) Case: Fractal Design Define R6 USB-C ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $100.00) Power Supply: Corsair RMi 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $120.00) Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer (Purchased For $75.00) Total: $1891.98 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-02 19:59 EDT-0400 身のなわたしはる果てぞ 悲しわたしはかりけるわたしは Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 6, 2019 I'm the kind of guy who dislikes ads but still wants to support content creators and certain smaller websites. So I have white-listed some. I'm quite compelled to build a Pi-hole though and if Linus says buy a shirt to make up the difference for LMG then hell why not. My current hoodie is a little beat up just from age anyways. My other concern would be security. A lot of the ads I see on a lot of sites are redirects to really sketchy places. Too many websites don't police their ads very well and I'm not about to give myself a virus due to a mis-click because they didn't feel like holding up their half of the bargain. Also how a lot of websites go about serving the ads are in my opinion excessive. Full screen pop-ups or just pop-ups in general that interrupt what you're doing drive people off the platform (or to an adblocker). I have thought about why is it not possible to design an adblocker that downloads the ads but just doesn't allow them to be displayed? The website advertisers wouldn't know the difference and clients still wouldn't see them, and the site owner would still get the revenue. Guides & Tutorials: PROXMOX - Rebuilding ZFS RAID rpool After Disk Failure Mass Deploying Customized Windows 10/11 Installs Building a GNU/Linux Based Windows Deployment Server GNU/Linux Installer Server: Installation & Configuration How to: Use (i)PXE to Install Windows from a Network Why Memorize IP's When You Can Self-Host DNS Instead? Ventoy - The USB Multi-Boot Utility! Introduction to PXE/iPXE Network Boot Featuring FreeBSD & Ubuntu Server Don't see what you need? Check the Full List or *PM me, if I haven't made it I'll add it to the list. *NOTE: I'll only add it to the list if the request is something I know I can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 6, 2019 I use an ad blocker. Partly due to privacy and partly due to annoyances. There are some websites i use that i cannot turn my ad blocker off otherwise like 60% of the page is ads. There's ads to keep your website running, and then there's just hugely over the top. I will also admit i run it on youtube in some cases. It's automatically set to off on YT, but if i come across a video that overdoes it on the pre-roll and mid-roll ads (i'm not talking about mid video ad-reads from the youtuber) then i fire up the ad blocker. There has been a large number of channel's i've just thrown like $20 at to a patreon or what ever donation system (or on twitch if they happen to be a streamer) they have set up and i dont feel bad about turning on adblocker for those since i watch so much of their content and the $20 is going to be way more that what they would get from my ad views. i was a RoosterTeeth first member for like 2 years. The amount of money they got from that pretty much covers me for life for the rest of their videos, so I turn adblocker on for that too. TBH i would prefer youtubers stop using youtube ads all together and just do their own ad reads during the videos. it's much less jarring and likely going to be actually relevant to their audience than youtube's broken algorithm ◒ ◒ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 6, 2019 Adblocking isn't just about ads these days. It's also your first line of defense against crap on the internet. Too many ads that tries to infect your computer with shit. It can also be used to block out some elements on a website that honestly are just a massive annoyance and terrible design. Like a website that puts a huge banner that never goes away after scrolling down... Or have large white space on a dark themed website for some insane reason. But to answer your questions in order 1-2-3 and 5, security reasons. If I did that with every websites I visit, I'd go bankrupt. All the time. Some, like youtube. No. It's not the few pennies they'd make off me in a year that'd truly make a difference. Sure it could be argued that if EVERYONE didn't use an adblocker, then those pennies would add up to dollars and what not... But screw that idealistic crap. If you offer something of value, ads wouldn't matter anyway as you'd have other means of revenue. Any site owner with a brain should know to at least have some sort of web store to sell merch or accept donations at the very least if they aren't the kind of websites that attracts things like sponsors. CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x / GPU: Asus Radeon RX 6750XT OC 12GB / RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4-3200 MOBO: MSI B450m Gaming Plus / NVME: Corsair MP510 240GB / Case: TT Core v21 / PSU: Seasonic 750W / OS: Win 10 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 6, 2019 1 minute ago, Arika S said: TBH i would prefer youtubers stop using youtube ads all together and just do their own ad reads during the videos. it's much less jarring and likely going to be actually relevant to their audience than youtube's broken algorithm Couldn't have said it better myself. Though, this may cause trouble for smaller youtubers who can't ring up dyson and say "ey gimmie a vacuum ill feature it in my vidyah", because big companies don't care about small channels. Brands I wholeheartedly reccomend (though do have flawed products): Apple, Razer, Corsair, Asus, Gigabyte, bequiet!, Noctua, Fractal, GSkill (RAM only) Wall Of Fame (Informative people/People I like): @Glenwing @DrMacintosh @Schnoz @TempestCatto @LogicalDrm @Dan Castellaneta Useful threads: How To Make Your Own Cloud Storage Spoiler Guide to Display Cables/Adapters Spoiler PSU Tier List (Latest)- Spoiler Main PC: See spoiler tag Laptop: 2020 iPad Pro 12.9" with Magic Keyboard Spoiler PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gKh8zN CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core OEM/Tray Processor (Purchased For $419.99) Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula ATX AM4 Motherboard (Purchased For $356.99) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (Purchased For $130.00) Storage: Kingston Predator 240 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (Purchased For $40.00) Storage: Crucial MX300 1.05 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $100.00) Storage: Western Digital Red 8 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $180.00) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card (Purchased For $370.00) Case: Fractal Design Define R6 USB-C ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $100.00) Power Supply: Corsair RMi 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $120.00) Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer (Purchased For $75.00) Total: $1891.98 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-02 19:59 EDT-0400 身のなわたしはる果てぞ 悲しわたしはかりけるわたしは Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 6, 2019 32 minutes ago, iKingRPG said: I mean if everyone did it, rip all free services. approx. 30 million people in the USA use adblockers. imagine paying for everything, youtube, ltt forum, reddit, twitter, facebook, amazon, ebay, everything. These services aren't free, you're paying them with your personal information. I would much rather pay for these service then having ads which tracks and monitor you. Magical Pineapples