Do you use adblocking software?

[Dr Gregory House]

Basic question really, do you use it, or not, and why?
Do you think it's ethical to block adds?
Are you destroying a site's sustainability? Do you think it's all a big sham?

Personally, I only use it selectively. I block all flash adds but I don't mind static images... except for, of course, dating site adds. They sicken me. >>

 

[Gerri Shin]

I use Adblock for Safari in combination with a css Stylesheet that helps block even more ads.

I have no problem with it, the site still gets credit for displaying the ad, I just don't see it. I mainly have the adblocking for those annoying talking ads.

 

[twocows]

Adblock Plus for Firefox. I would feel more bad if I ever actually clicked on ads (as I might potentially be depriving a company of a purchase by me), but my experience with computers has led me to NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER click on an ad, so it's just getting rid of stuff I never use anyway.

 

[Citrinin]

Basically what twocows said. I use Adblock Plus for Firefox, but even when I didn't, I never clicked on ads anyway. :P

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

AdBlock Plus on Firefox. The ads hardly displayed anything of interest to me, and some seemed downright shady (OMG U ARE LIEK VISITOR #1000000 TO DIS SITE! CLICK NOW 4 YOUR PRIZE!).

 

[Swift!]

AdBlock Plus for Firefox. FTW! xD

 

[SPEEDIE]

I use Ad-Block Plus on Firefox. It blocks most if not all adds and i haven't had a problem with it so far

 

[Mitchman]

I stupidly avoided it till 2 days ago and now I'm using AdBlock+. Definitely worth it as it speeds things up for me on a really slow computer and it makes long sites shorter if a lot of ads.

 

[Eon-Rider]

I've been using Adblock Plus for over a year now all thanks to a thread in the same forum discussing the most used Mozilla Firefox addons. =)

 

[ÇyänïdëÉX]

There are some ads that just are to intrisive because of the fact that they force you to click on certain parts of it to close it, and go ask you stuff like if you want to close click cancel if you want to stay click on. Its like really trick questions. When you close them others pop up, i should really get more ad blocking because my script blocker aint doing a good job any more.

 

[Mumei]

I block ads mainly because an ad once tried to download something to my comp without me even clicking on it. True story.

 

[BenRK]

I've been using Adblock Plus for years now, I'm sometimes surprised other people still see ads when I'm at their house. It's quite nice getting the internet, rather then a big commercial trying to take over your computer.

 

[Ayano Katagiri]

I use Adblock Plus in Firefox. I don't think I've seen an ad for a long time except when I use Safari.

 

[>Feelings<]

I don't use any adblocking software. I never needed to...
I use Firefox, btw... Firefox blocks all stupid pop-ups for me, and the ads which are on just a page doesn't really bother me. I don't click them 99% of the times, though...

 

[Belinda]

I use AD Block Plus lol,I think I had a CSS style sheet on my other computer.

 

[Giraffes? Giraffes!]

Pretty much like everyone else, Ad block plus for firefox. I had it on my iPod as well, (jailbroken) but it wanted me to pay for it lolol.

 

[.little monster]

I don't do anything. They don't annoy me enough.

 

[Malice.]

I have AdBlock on my Firefox; NoScript as well for other annoying scripts.

 

[.Seth]

I use AdBlock Plus on Firefox and usercontent.css on Safari.
I'm trying to find AdBlock for Safari.

 

[Lucy Lu]

I use Adblock Plus for Firefox. The best ad-blocking software in the world. <3 But if I didn't have that program, I wouldn't click on the ads anyway. But they are a eyesore, so I get rid of them. And it is a great program to block a picture that you don't like.