JEDI
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Whats a good Chrome script blocker?
thought ad block plus also blocked scripts?
Whats a good Chrome script blocker?
If an ad were JUST an ad, I wouldn't be running ad blockers. But let's face it... ads aren't just ads anymore. They're spyware. They're demographic tracking. They're datamining. They're behavior tracking. They're a whole shitload of everything that's wrong all to monetize the person under the guise of just putting a simple ad in front of eyes.
If the money that was made off of monetizing me actually went to me, I'd be a little more okay with what's going on with advertising these days. But let's be honest, the general trend of price is item prices go up while you get less item meanwhile corporate revenues keep growing. So me, the consumer, the ad watcher, and also me the product keep losing more money in the process.
So until then I will control what I get to see because they will ultimately find a way to monetize me anyway.
They got greedy and let ad networks devolve into spyware infested, music blaring, plugin consuming garbage. I have no sympathy.
oh, and ad blockers are probably expediting the day where ads will be truly obtrusive and impossible to block. thanks
So you are afraid that you wont be able to block adds in the future because people are blocking adds now... wtf kind of stupid thinking is this.
not a very hard concept to understand. I don't mind the current ads. I don't block ads. I don't want worse ads that I have to sit through and you clowns can't even block
comedy central shows this for ~ 25 seconds with ad block on:
Still better than most ads
I can block anything that comes to my machine, because I own my machine. Anyone who accepts ads is a fool. That's one of the single best things you can do to improve your security. It's keeps the dummies from clicking on stupid shit, and it prevents silent installs for everyone else.
I can understand the security aspect but personally I don't find it to be an issue, and it doesn't seem to be the main reason people block ads.
And I disagree with you fundamentally. I think that if I want to visit a website I should take it as is. Golden rule, imo. Obviously security threats are different, but being safe is not too difficult
I'm fine with businesses doing that, can't trust people to be smart
Works for me.forbes.com takes the cake, the page won't even load AT ALL if you have an adblocker. Scary that this is even possible, did not realize sites could actually detect what extensions you have. I noticed some site even specify which one you have, ex: adblock plus. Why do browsers sent that kind of info anyway?
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.
lol whut? I block nothing and my internet's 100% usable. You're not forced to do anything, you chose to.
forbes.com takes the cake, the page won't even load AT ALL if you have an adblocker. Scary that this is even possible, did not realize sites could actually detect what extensions you have. I noticed some site even specify which one you have, ex: adblock plus. Why do browsers sent that kind of info anyway?
Hah, fanastic. I'm going to donate some money to a adblock plus because of this guy:
I refuse to pay for the bandwidth for crappy ads, along with assuming security risks because of virus and malware infection etc from ads. No thanks, all that stuff gets filtered out.
If the advertiser wants me to see the ads, how about they pay me for each ad that gets displayed on my browser?