Red Squirrel
No Lifer
The advertising companies did it to themselves. If they had stuck to non annoying ad formats that also don't act as spyware, perhaps we would not be forced to block them in order to make the internet usable.
This kind of reminds me of what advertisers do on TV commercial breaks. They boast the commercial's volume up to 3 times that of the program content. I find myself constantly clicking on the remote's mute button or decreasing the volume button. Another ad blocker.The advertising companies did it to themselves. If they had stuck to non annoying ad formats that also don't act as spyware, perhaps we would not be forced to block them in order to make the internet usable.
They got greedy and let ad networks devolve into spyware infested, music blaring, plugin consuming garbage. I have no sympathy.
This kind of reminds me of what advertisers do on TV commercial breaks. They boast the commercial's volume up to 3 times that of the program content. I find myself constantly clicking on the remote's mute button or decreasing the volume button. Another ad blocker.
Commercials online sure as hell don't care about this.Yep I thought they were suppose to make that illegal actually, not sure what ever came of that. Then there's the fact that a 20 minute show is put in a 1 hour time slot filled with commercials. I now PVR shows that I want to sit down and watch, so I can skip all the commercials. If it was only 1-2 commercials in a row it would not be so bad, but I've seen 10+.
"Our data shows that you watched a 5 minute ad so that you could view 2 minutes of content, but then you didn't buy the product advertised. Thief."Advertisers don't know when enough is enough and drive people towards solutions that make the advertising completely useless.
I'm sure eventually they'll lobby for some law to make PVRs unable to skip commercials or record in first place, at which point someone will come up with another solution, or just pirate the content altogether and not watch it on cable.
This guy is full of shit.
It is not obvious that content should be free (or ad-supported), but the internet started that way.
Since most content was free, the utility providers (ISPs) have priced the value of the content into their fees. So I pay $75/mo for my limited connection, at 10 year old speeds, instead of a more competitively balanced price.
I'm 'OK' paying that because I count the value of all the content I receive, the majority of it without charge.
In reality my money is being distributed unfairly, with content creators getting the shaft while entrenched ISPs receive the lion's share of user money.
That makes no logical sense...
It's like the argument that I paid for all the content I pirated because I paid for the hard drives I store the data on...
They got greedy and let ad networks devolve into spyware infested, music blaring, plugin consuming garbage. I have no sympathy.
This is not a good analogy.That makes no logical sense...
It's like the argument that I paid for all the content I pirated because I paid for the hard drives I store the data on...
Eff em. I use ad block with pixelserv on my tomato router and I block everything now on all of my devices on my network.
I was literally shocked to see how many of my devices was calling out to ad servers and Google analytics without me doing any browsing at all. My Nexus 6p is ridiculous in the amount of ad servers it tries to reach out to.
It's pretty cool. I can see all of the DNS lookups in real time from my router to see what each device is trying to do. If it's on my block list I think it redirects it to pixelserv which returns a blank gif image or something like that. I don't even see YouTube ads anymore which was starting to get annoying after I clicked on every video.I've been wanting to look into doing this too actually. I can't recall where but I had found an online list of all the ad/spy servers, could easily generate a script that creates a bunch of DNS zones that return a DNS error and stick those in my local DNS server. For the ones that are malicious IPs I could just block at the firewall. Though I think most ad servers are accessed as a hostname so should be fine.
<continuing>10 second video clip? Wait for these two 15-second ads.
Oh wait, the second ad's server stalled out. Reload the page to try again. Sit through the first ad again.
Ok good, the 30 second ad is over. The ad is now going to wait another 10 seconds to see if I want to click on their buttons to go to the site.
thisThey got greedy and let ad networks devolve into spyware infested, music blaring, plugin consuming garbage. I have no sympathy.
I'm sure eventually they'll lobby for some law to make PVRs unable to skip commercials or record in first place, at which point someone will come up with another solution, or just pirate the content altogether and not watch it on cable.
"If we don't know who you are, where you are, and what brand of toothpaste you prefer, you won't get the optimum experience from our website!Oh and I can't stand pages that want to know your location. I'm on a news website wtf do you need to know my location???
Oh and I can't stand pages that want to know your location. I'm on a news website wtf do you need to know my location???
That's almost as bad as department stores asking for you phone number and email address when you make a purchase. WTF do you need that info for?
F*ck 'em all.