Do they seriously think their begging is effective with us adblockers‽

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

Side note: Does anybody have an effective way of blocking this stupid Admiral BS, I've gotten it to a point where it consistently gives me the bypass option but I'd prefer it to go away entirely

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

If it's a site I use regularly, I'll disable ad blocker, especially news. It'd be childish demand people provide me their time, labour and effort for free, especially when the ads cost me nothing.

[henfredemars@infosec.pub]

I’m sorry but advertisements are too often a vehicle for scams and malware. It’s not merely a preference. They pose a very real danger due to a lack of enforcement of good advertising policies and ethics.

[sirico@feddit.uk]

Usually paper companies trying to play electric games

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

Spicy take these days.

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

I've tried that before, was I rewarded with peaceful well placed ADs? Hell no, I was inundated with full page auto-playing monstrosities so fuck that.

Maybe if it's a small time website I'll just pay with donations or a subscription, but fuck these big time conglomerate owned websites

[limonene@lemmy.world]

I've never seen this. Just checked ZDNet's website and it didn't show anything about my ad blocker.

I block ads because they are such a distraction that I can't read, and because auctioning off arbitrary javascript to the highest bidder is just asking to be hacked. If ads were not animated, and had no external or obfuscated javascript, I might not block them.

But as is, I'd rather close the tab than enable ads.

[ohellidk@sh.itjust.works]

Using the "bypass paywalls clean" extension gets rid of most of it.

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

It might have to do with the aggressiveness that I block ADs, I have ad blocking at the device and network levels. Since I also have a way to over-powered pfSense server I pretty much don't care about all those giant dnsbl lists that have the "Performance hit warning" lmao

[nichtburningturtle@feddit.org]

I imagine they're targeted at the relatively technically inept majority.

[ilinamorato@lemmy.world]

If they really wanted me to whitelist them in my adblocker, they'd make the ads less onerous.

[don@lemm.ee]

I’m sorry but advertisements

You have nothing to be sorry about when it comes to ads, except having to deal with ads. Fuck ads.

[shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

[themeatbridge@lemmy.world]

I don't demand anything, but I'm not responsible for making sure anyone else makes money. Sell it, give it away, or don't. Don't beg me to allow third parties to infect my devices just because they paid you to ask me.

[don@lemm.ee]

Yeah, I tried that for a while, then those sites abused that privilege with horrid obnoxious ads so I decided to nuke any ads anywhere.

I’m certainly glad that your tolerance to ads is such that you’re willing to endure them for whatever media it is that you consume, and encourage you to disable your adblockers entirely (given that ads really don’t cost you personally anything), but as for me and mine, we will block ads with a near religious fervor.

Cheers!

[reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I can appreciate your viewpoint, but I disagree. If I can't use my adblocker on your site, I don't need your site.

There are no acceptable ads and there haven't been for a very long time. Plus, I've been blocking ads for so long I can't even remember an internet that has them. Probably part of the reason why I refuse any kind of ads.

[arbitraryvalue@sh.itjust.works]

Those messages do make me feel bad, but not bad enough to turn my ad blocker off.

I'm technically capable of blocking ads but that doesn't mean that I am also morally entitled to access content provided to me on the condition that I will see the ads. I suppose the fact that these websites only ask me to disable my ad blocker rather than refusing me access entirely implies that they give consent for me to keep using the ad blocker, but would I really stop using it if they did refuse access but I could bypass that restriction?

[danekrae@lemmy.world]

I do feel guilty sometimes... Then I continue.

Just like I do when I watch the porn the adblocker's help me watch...

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

give us money!

Dude, I don't even know you. I'll never be back here again.

[psythik@lemmy.world]

If you're seeing these, then you need to change your settings in Ublock Origin to enable more filters. Anti-adblock killer is the filter you want, I believe.