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• I use an ad-blocker because the web is basically unusable without one. I want sites I use to get ad revenue. I read the ads, and I click on ones that interest me in hopes that my lack of tracker blocking will help them deliver more relevant ads. But it just doesn't work. It's like they think we'll buy their product if they make us hate them enough.

  • I normally run an adblocker with "acceptable ads" allowed. But occasionally I test webpages without it.
    Recent list of horrible ads for me:
    Animated ads - on an otherwise static webpage. With no end of animation in sight. In distracting colors, and flashing fit to give somebody a seizure.
    Ads that pop up in the middle of content, covering it.
    Ads with sound, in addition to being animated.
    Maybe not a paid ad, but news sites thinking I need to see an announcer reading off the article I'm reading, while covering the text in a floating window.
    Ads with lying "x to close" buttons. Which treat trying to close the ad as the same as clicking on it.
    Autoforward of the whole damn page to the advertisement site.
    Ads that treat clicking on the site's search bar as clicking on the ad
    Porn ads showing full penetration on non-porn website/page. Worse: It was fatties!

    Sure, website, you want me to support you by not blocking ads. How about you make it so your site works with the ads shown? This is up there with the games where the cracked, pirated version of the game ran faster and more stable than the official version!

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      I'm glad I'm not the only one left that doesn't want my news read to me like I'm a toddler. As for the rest of it, pretty much spot on. Their abusive ad practices that necessitated ad-blockers in the first place are their own doing, and they've proven that they don't even want us to forgive them.

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      ^^THIS^^

  • by znrt ( 2424692 ) on Monday March 20, 2023 @04:12PM (#63385863)

    I want sites I use to get ad revenue. I read the ads

    well, i surely don't.

    - "but, but... without ads you would have no internet!!!"

    turns out i'm old enough to know what the internet was like before ads infected everything and, oh yes, bring that back any day if you can! i'm afraid there's no turning back, though, so ad-blockers it is all the way, baby.

    i'm anyway not in any "ad" demographic. you will never get a cent off me via ads. via references or search engines? maybe. but pestering me with "click-on" ads? or holograms, for that matter. if that actually works it just shows how primitive our civilization still is for a sizeable portion of people being willing to indulge in purchase decisions simply on response to random suggestions from a stranger. that's just sick, with a zombie vibe. makes u think if the short money for education is really well spent, or maybe it's just working as intended?

    that you admit to actually reading those ads and proactively clicking just for the sake of supporting the rotten business behind them is truly remarkable. my mind just exploded a bit. keep it up!:-)

    • Want to go back to dial-up?

      I am old enough to remember such an Internet as well. Connection speeds were in the hundredths of a megabit per second because home Internet was dial-up. If all ad-supported websites (including Slashdot) were to vanish from the web overnight, I doubt the major residential fiber and cable Internet service providers (ISPs) would retain enough subscribers over the next few months to stay in business.

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        The internet, for you and myself, remember from the early days was mostly built for and by techies. "make me a website" costs exploded due to several things:

        • - The number of hits as popularity grew required more complex hosting solutions (CDNs, Cloud Services, Failover, etc)
        • - Client-scripting abilities to have continuous socket-like chatter and any type of payloads has required low-latency continuous connections
        • - Publishing tools like Wiki's, CMS's, and Blogs have gone into SaaS, PaaS and other things to

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        avg speed today are in the hundredths of megabit per second (u probably meant megabytes). and your prophecy just doesn't make sense. people paid for access then, there is no reason to think they wouldn't still pay now, except massification and optimization have driven the costs down and improved performance considerably. that "thing" that you imply wouldn't work actually thrived. it just was colonized by bad practices.

        the whole ad ecosystem based on click-counts, impacts and viewing time is just a gigantic

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          "Hundreds of Mbps" means 100-999 Mbps.
          "Hundredths of Mbps" with a "th" means 0.01-0.09 Mbps, that is, 10-99 kbps. Dial-up was usually 14.4 kbps, 31.2 kbps (on nominally 33.6K modems), or 50 kbps (on nominally 56K modems), depending on line quality.

          People paid for dial-up in the pre-advertising era of the Internet because subscribers deemed the text and small images that could be produced by a hobbyist to be adequate. Nowadays, most people tend to expect larger images and video that tend to require more than

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            lol, my bad, sorry for the confusion.

            still doesn't change the argument. tech evolves, gets cheaper, allows more content, makes it easier to share and access, but the content doesn't have to be ads, nor does the system need ads to function and grow.

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            Dial-up was usually 14.4 kbps, 31.2 kbps (on nominally 33.6K modems), or 50 kbps (on nominally 56K modems), depending on line quality.

            I got 14.4k on the early internet. Though I had a 19.2k modem, my ISP at the time only supported 14.4k and 28.8k. I did later upgrade to 56k.

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      Ads are a negative to the internet in every way. Not only are they annoying, but they inspire people to make click-bait, along with outright lies.

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      Even worse, I sometimes actually click the link on YouTube video ads so the creator can get the extra $0.00000001 revenue.

      Do your part. If we all hate advertisers then make them pay up and support something you like.

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    Maybe ad blockers could "stealth" click on ads and launch the results invisibly in a safe/secure manor so the site thinks they were viewed and clicked but the actual "customer" doesn't have to see or do anything.

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    https://adnauseam.io/ [adnauseam.io]

    Click all the ads, poison the profile well, support the web host.

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  Then there is the issue of malvertising. It isn't as huge as it used to be when third party add-ons allowed code to run as a user context, unfettered (Chrome did well in putting code in a restricted space, and Firefox soon followed), but ads are still a major vector for malware.

  Of course, there are the issues of slow connections, metered stuff, and all that. There are many people who can't afford to have full 8k videos of clickbait scammy garbage thrown at them.

  But, hell with ads, because of the sheer abu

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  Advertiser's fault. They made them so intrusive and god awful over the years that ad-blocking is required to use the net. I'm assuming many, like me, have completely rejected advertisers and their "messages" over the years well, on all media platforms. I'll bet that's why so many still ride the high seas to this day. Ahoy!