Also ads that pop up right beneath my cursor and trick me into clicking them. Also ads on iPhone games that you can't close and that open 4 windows to take you to the App Store.
******* hell, this. I know for a ******* fact that an "FBI warning" that I've done something illegal and my browser has been locked, is ******** . All you've done is force me to quit out of my browser and reopen it.
I hate it when a pop-up forces you to click a "Close" or "Cancel" button to close it. Nobody is falling for it. People aren't just going to click on random buttons on suspicious websites just because they have the word "Cancel" on them. You're not going to infect anyone, and you're just making my day suck a little bit more by making me force reboot my browser and manually reopen all my tabs.
Anyone know if there's this for firefox? Chrome broke down a while ago (cannot read your preferences = unbookmarking everything + uninstalling my extensions) so I switched.
Can't find a solution to either problem.
Once I disabled my adblock because it caused problems on the website that I was working on to see what's the problem.
Every site I visited, every site had two giant adds on the left and right they took like 30% of my screen, there was also one that was expanding and shrinking for no reason, there was one that followed my mouse and three more were right on the middle of the page scrolling with me.
The horrors I've seen.
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The site I use to watch TV shows has horrendus ads on the page that hosts videos. If I don't tactically cancel the loading of the page I'll get four talking advertizements competing over eachother, two more once they time out so I can watch the video, and one that opens a popup when you close it to get to the video.
Some ads are alright like the ones that are just image links Not ******* gifs, just png,bmp,jpeg and don't cause the page to take twice as long to long.
ADs are what bring the majority of websites profit.
Without ads Youtube, funnyjunk, facebook, twitch, and pretty much all your favorite websites would go out of business or be forced to charge a subscription for use.
AKA, respect the ads, for they allow free browsing.
I wouldn't mind paying for subscriptions for certain sites. That would force youtube to acknowledge that nobody likes google+ , and stop trying to integrate it.
Youtube is covered by google, google runs google ads, and would be fine without them, just with a lot less income. They make money elsewhere. Twitch would be fine, and so would facebook. Ads aren't the lifeline for them, they have many other profit sources.
Youtube ads aren't primarily for Google. They're for the people that own the videos.
Google still takes a cut of the profits, but still, when you turn their ads of, you're basically taking away one of the major reasons people create Youtube videos.
That makes no sense, they make majority of their income from ads and the people who make the content for their website get a cut of that income, that's how the company gets paid and how the content creators get paid.
Google runs the Adsense programme which can provide ads on both regular websites and on Youtube.
Whenever a visitor click on one of the ads, the content owner (either a website owner or a video owner) gets a certain amount of money (usually a few cents per click). If I remember correctly, Google takes about 33% of the revenue on each click
The system works more or less the same on both platforms. That's why I would recommend whitelisting Youtube, a lot of the creators on there depend on the revenue provided by their ads
Because I'm not going to be swayed by ****** animated ads or annoying popups to buy a product I don't need.
Also, Adblock has this convenient system that allows pre selected static and simple ads to be shown, which they deam 'acceptable adds' so I will see adds from those who don't strive for my attention.
Who says you gotta be swayed by those ****** ads? i only go to web pages that i would like to see keep on running. why would you go to a website that you don't want to stay alive?
Well, I'm not going to answer the question of 'why would you visit the site you want to see die' at this moment because frankly that is a huge can of worms for this site that I don't think you or I want to type or read at this time.
And the whole point of flash, pop-up, ect.. ads is to get your attention. to make their product look appealing, and to buy their **** . Which I'm not going to do. And I've made the mistake of clicking on an ad on accident in the past and gotten malware so I'm not even risking that happening again.
You think you're doing something there, but you're not. Ads work primarily on creating brand recognition: a consumer facing two products, one whose brand he's heard of, and one unknown, will vastly prefer the one he recognizes: "This unadvertised one must be some crappy knock-off because I've never heard anyone mention it before, and this one over here must be the high quality name brand one that I want!" Trying to make a mental note not to buy it strengthens your recognition, and the devil you know is preferred over the devil you don't. Even if you manage to make the conscious decision not to buy it, the advertisement has managed to implant it as the primary choice (otherwise you wouldn't need to be overriding the choice to buy it), which will change how you judge the competing product. Instead of judging whether your purchase is sufficient on its own, you will wonder if you should've bought the product "good enough to warrant being advertised," and the product in your hand will look deficient until you can make that comparison. IOW, guess what your next purchase will likely be?
Marketing is ******* devious. There's a reason companies spend billions on it.
It sounds more like spite in this post - spite will hurt oneself simply to hurt another.
Or " **** brand x, even if their product is good I won't get it because they use ****** ads."
I didn't want to download adblocker. I respect most advertisements because I know that's how websites get their money and if I like their sites I should respect them enough to deal with the ads. But recently they've become unnecessarily annoying that I had to do it.
Yes sir, and being whitelisted is a privilege, much like respect.
Hard to earn, easy to lose. The freedom and speed with which it is given, is only outmatched by that with which it is taken.
If you make commercials when they say things like hashtag, poke, like, comment, Facebook, Twitter or anything Internet related, then I'm not going to buy your product
Finally someone who got it. ******* Adblock is ******** . Don't like a site because of ads? Don't visit the site. Don't like an ad? Don't buy the product.