Give Up Internet!
Internet Culture Magazine
is now 17 years old.
This is Why Many People Still use Adblock [PIC]
![This is Why Many People Still use Adblock [PIC]](https://imgur.com/T0Odc.jpg)
Author:
Recently on GiveUpInternet!
- Cracking the 500 View Ceiling: How to Hack TikTok’s Cluster Algorithm.
- AI Started Lying. And Honestly, Who Can Blame It
- Alpha Arena: 6 ai model, $10,000 each, trade in real market.
- One of Our Posts Broke Medium’s Emotional Support Algorithm
- How Google Bought the Internet and Made You Say Thank You
- One Meme at a Time: The Underground Community Turning Memes into Real Projects
- When the Internet Decides to Respawn: Digg, Reddit, and the Great Comeback Nobody Asked For
- How Memes Mutate Into Memecoins (And Why the Internet Can’t Look Away)
- What is an internet meme?
- Keylogger Proof Secure Login System inspired by Etch A Sketch
17 responses to “This is Why Many People Still use Adblock [PIC]”
The sites have to earn money somehow… Would you rather have ads on the site, or have to pay for it? I know I’d prefer the ads.
1-) Daniel, i think “adblock” and other ad blocking services are dangerous for the entire internet industry.
2-) Ads doesn’t disturb me.
3-) But many people don’t think like me.
Here is the skinny on it: if I have to pay to visit a site I do not care what they purport to know or do or anything else it is not going to happen. Free to me or no visit period. And ads pay such a small amount you cannot think it is profitable for sites. Would you work 24/7 for $2 a month? This whole argument is silly.
Why do the sites have to earn money? Has someone forced them into putting up and maintaining a web site? If they can’t afford to maintain a web site without ads then don’t put up a web site! Years ago (before the internet) people would host a BBS. There were no ads on the BBS to pay for the equipment, software or time involved to maintain it. They did it because they wanted to do it. Now-a-days people want to host a web site but feel that their visitors should help to pay for it.
I use Adblock and will always use Adblock. If these web site don’t like that I use Adblock then restrict access, I don’t care. If you restrict access then you are defeating the very reason you put the web site up, to allow people to visit your site. There’s millions of web sites on the internet. Lets say half of them restricted users for using Adblock. That would leave me only half million to visit. I certainly wouldn’t miss the sites that refuse access.
I suggest the people who host these web sites quite crying about Adblock and think about why they started their web site in the first place. Is the web site something THEY wanted or millions of internet surfers wanted. Personally, I don’t have a web site. I don’t want to spend my money or my time on it. Fortunately there are lots of people out there who enjoy that type of thing. But if someone stops enjoying it and it becomes a burden of time and money, then shut it down. Don’t tell me and others that we have to view your content to help you pay for it.
I don’t mind ads. Normal ads, that I can choose to look at if I desire. But most sites don’t use those ads. Moving ads, flashing ads, jumping ads, ads the crawl across the content, forcing you to look, and find the tiny ‘X’. Then there’s the sites like the one pictured. 90% ads, 10% content. Overkill. I would never visit that site again, willingly.
Unfortunately too many sites abuse ads to the point of stupidity, and users are fighting back. Watching TV, I’ll wander off while the ads are on, and online, I’ll block the ones I find overkill.
Maybe once sites start playing nice with their audience again will people start accepting ‘some level’ of ads.
Sergey, I don’t like you.
things like adblock were created because websites CROSSED THE LINE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS.
popups, malware, etc
btw, there is so such things as ‘internet industry’
The vast majority of people using adblock do not click on ads regardless if they are blocked on not.
Since ads only generate money if they are clicked on, or in other cases if a person buys something after clicking through an ad, adblock users are irrelevant to the revenue streams of content providers.
When ever i host a site or blog I don’t allow ad’s on it. For 1 they slow down the page for both me and my viewers and for 2 if you want money for your web pages then sell something on it.
Are you people honestly this stupid in real life? I’d prefer an ad-free experience any day of the week.
Thankyou for ADBLOCK, who the heck wants to look at ads? If I ever have to pay to look at sites, I’ll go back to reading books.
@Daniel – If they actually have content worth paying for/having ads, sure. But 99.999% for *ALL* websites DON’T.
@Sergey – 1) See above. 2) Good for you, but 99.999% of everyone else hates ads. 3) I’d have to agree.
The internet was meant for individuals to share information. It is a “community” based medium, not a business model. I use and will always use adblocker.
Daniel – you don’t pay for internet access?
Sergey,
How, exactly, is ignoring an advertisement dangerous to anyone? Ever change the channel or mute the TV during a showing?
Most companies target stupid people in their ads.
Stupid people don’t know how to use adblock.
Win-Win.
Hell yes. I can’t stand those websites. I’d, honestly, rather have a site that requires payment. That way I can confidentally go somewhere else to get the same information for free instead of looking for nine-hundred hours through six billion pixels of ads to get the five hundred pixels of content. If only they’d say, “This site is flooding with advertisements. Don’t bother reading because you won’t find anything, and if you do it’ll be split across 80 pages so that you have to view more ads.” then I’d know to leave ASAP instead of after disappointingly searching.