ADVERTIZEMENTS

[Alexander Nicholi]

Advertisements. They make the internet go around, and all the money countries too.

Do you see advertisments online? Do you unblock for favourite sites, like PC? How could you not How about IRL - are you one to like "good ads," anticipate superbole ads and the like? Are you a Marxist who's down with the capitalist degeneracy? Maybe you just don't care.

Besides your opinion, you're welcome to share ads you like, thought were funny/ridiculous, or controversial. And go on a tangent if you want, no one will stop you. Not even...



Austin Powers.

 

[Spiff]

Those goddam Amazon adds get me evERY TIME man. I'll look at something and wonder, do I want this, nah I don't want this. Sure as shit five minutes later the items on an add wherever and yeah, turns out I do want that. Bastards.

 

[Nolafus]

I don't care enough to get adblocker. I do well enough just ignoring them and letting the webpage get their revenue. I can't say I care about tv commercials either. I find them really annoying since I just want to get back to my show.

 

[Prairie]

I have AdBlock on all the time for each browser I use that supports it. Too lazy to switch it off for specific sites though. I know it brings money to the site but I don't like seeing 'em, especially when you can't skip them. :C

 

[Foxrally]

Adblock is your best friend in such cases :D

I don't really like advertisements in my country, since they're almost always linear, boring "BUY OUR PRODUCT IT'S SO FANCY LOOKS AT THIS LITTLE GIRL LAUGH ISN'T SHE CUTE YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES HER CUTER YES YOU GUESSED IT OUR PRODUCT CALL 800-SHAVERZ NOW AND GET YOUR PUBIC HAIR SHAVER FOR ONLY $69.69" ads.

Some other countries have some pretty entertaining ads though (French advertisements are pretty funny actually). Advertisements are meant to encourage you to buy the product, so a boring advertisement is basically counter-productive. Even worse though are ads that play so frequently that you begin hating the product (looking at you Fitness Programs). The money/time spent and advertisement effectiveness correlation chart is bell-shaped, which means there's an optimum level of spending on ads.

Ironically enough I'm going to study marketing in college next year :P

 

[Lumina]

I just completely filter out ads on websites 90% of the time. I just don't even know they're there. Except sound-ads. Then it's just "welp guess this website just lost a visitor".

 

[Lycanthropy]

I simply ignore them. After a while I hardly notice their presence.

 

[Gardevoir the Dragon Slayer]

Ad Blocker is the only way to make the internet useable xD.

 

[starseed galaxy auticorn]

Nothing bothers me more than annoying ads. I can't stand them, even on my favorite sites either. I have ADHD, so having to deal with flashing/animated ads is very distracting for me. I also find them annoying because it's not like I have interest in any of those ads. I feel bad for doing this at times though. It's just... try having severe ADHD. x___x Also, sound ads are even worse. They can often trigger my autism because I don't expect them to pop up on a site I frequent. I can't stand background noise on my laptop unless it's something I'm doing on my own. Such as for example, listening to music.

Thank god for Adblock btw.

 

[Dter ic]

First thing I do after install a browser is getting adblock. Ads are everywhere and most of the time they are more distracting than the site content. Video ads are the worst kind of you're on a website with video content. I unblock ads on some sites lie reddit where they aren't such an issue,

 

[Tsutarja]

If I have to use an ad blocker on a website, then that means the site's advertisements are intrusive to my browsing experience.

 

[cream]

my life has changed since i've been using adblock.

...in all seriousness though, i hate ads and i don't care if they're funny or clever. i just want them out of my sight.

 

[Starry Windy]

I use Adblocks most of the time because sometimes ads can be very intrusive, even though nowadays, I'm starting to unblock it on some sites when I know they are not troublesome and all.

 

[Hiatus]

Six years back or so, I've never actually considered installing any sort of ad-block plugin, similarly to some of us here, as advertisements had never actually bothered me that much. Though, one day, I've finally decided to try my hands on one and see how things go, and it surprisingly seemed to have made webpages much, much more clean, which... I did like! From that point forward, I could not turn back, and kept using the add-on.

Right now, only website I have ads enabled in is Hulu.

 

[Astinus]

Adblock is a lifesaver for me. Before I used it, I used to get those annoying ads with loud sudden voices screaming "CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON!" as flashing lights filled my monitor. Or there would be ads that rapidly flashed white, giving me headaches (and causing seizures in other people).

Of there would just be the ads that weren't intrusive, but just had things I didn't want to see like porn or feet.

So I downloaded adblock and never looked back. I don't disable it often. The only times I do are when it's a site that I really want to support (but those sites I only go to once and never again, so...)

 

[Leviathan]

As someone who has experienced a lot of browser hijacking, and also those viruses that cause ads to crop up when I wasn't using a web browser, adblocker is certainly the undisputed king of kings! In exchange for adblocking, I like to donate when I can. I've simply had too rough an experience with ads in the past to care to look at them anymore.

Now adverts on an android. They reallllyyyyy annoy me! I know that there's a way to get rid of in-app banner ads by tinkering with the code in any capable IDE (I haven't yet tried it myself, but a friend of mine did), but I couldn't really care less.

I also love the fact that, with adblock enabled, some websites are completely tolerable to use afterwards, now that the several banner ads are removed and the audio ads stop howling at you on every page load. Lol.

 

[zevarius kerensky]

i use adblock plus AT ALL TIMES no exceptions!

 

[Megan]

Ever since I took some time to learn about the inner workings of ads and how they are designed to manipulate potential customers, I feel reassured that blocking them is the way to go, if I ever want to feel somewhat free on the internet.

 

[Meganium]

omfg what are ads, I have not seen a single ad in YEARS.

Adblock is best.

 

[inspirASIAN]

I have uBlock installed which is much lighter than Adblock Plus and others, but I mostly use it on websites with intrusive advertisements in place like pop-ups, or sites with advertisements plastered all over the place, and the occasional porn that gets through their filters. If I frequent on a site like Hummingbird with advertisements that's obviously there to help fund them, I usually just purchase a subscription—if made available—to remove advertisements while helping them at the same time.

Advertisements in general doesn't bother me that much, even though it feels like they've been harvesting more and more information off of me such as the one time I purchased something online and hours later all the advertisements I see are related to the product I had just bought not too long ago.