Comments on: Is Blocking Ads Ethical? An End User Perspective http://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: stymiehttp://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-33446 stymie Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:52:47 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/#comment-33446 Back when "pay tv" was introduced we expected no commercials. After a few years the commercials came. Now there are relentless load, blaring commercials every 2 minutes. More than half of the channels are paid programming late at night. Even before a Movie in a theater, there are 30 minutes of commercials. Just look at how many are now on your ISP home page. No one has ever protected the consumer from this attack. If we pay for a service we should have the right to limit the advertisements, or pay extra to have them omitted. Back when “pay tv” was introduced we expected no commercials. After a few years the commercials came. Now there are relentless load, blaring commercials every 2 minutes. More than half of the channels are paid programming late at night.
Even before a Movie in a theater, there are 30 minutes of commercials. Just look at how many are now on your ISP home page.
No one has ever protected the consumer from this attack. If we pay for a service we should have the right to limit the advertisements, or pay extra to have them omitted.

]]> By: bobhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2767 bob Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:07:16 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/#comment-2767 Adblock plus for Firefox FTW!!! i hate ad scum especially the flash ones or the ads that stop the whole site from loading (ads with slow servers). Google adwords is fine and dandy (not annoying). ads are too much when they put it right in the middle of an article. web hosting is cheap ($15 for 3000 gigabytes of bandwidth, come on now!) Adblock plus for Firefox FTW!!! i hate ad scum especially the flash ones or the ads that stop the whole site from loading (ads with slow servers). Google adwords is fine and dandy (not annoying). ads are too much when they put it right in the middle of an article. web hosting is cheap ($15 for 3000 gigabytes of bandwidth, come on now!)

]]> By: FDhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2755 FD Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:20:16 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/#comment-2755 I agree with the author 100%. If ads get way out of hand obviously the end user will adapt by blocking them. Old media advertising is not the way to go and in fact old media never had 10 advertisements + 10 in-line (text) ads like PCmech and every other tech site has. It ridiculous.My old media free newspapers like "Metro" and "AM NY" don't bombard me with advertisements, and they print and ship everyday.When it comes to adblocking I block text-ads and pop-ups since they are the worst of all the ads I've encountered. Sound ads are more annoying, but they don't seem to exist any longer; probably because everyone including myself would just X out of those sites at the very first sound.You don't need a bombardment of ads to make money, you need good content that brings traffic that gets you good advertisers. Sites like Newgrounds.com used to have tons of ads/popups. But as they added more quality content, they got more traffic, and reduced their ads. Now they have no pop ups, 2 ad banners, and 2 more subtle ad-sharing that actually look like content. Their site is so successful they have enough money left over to give cash prizes to web artists for submitting content and to visitors for viewing their content. Haha. I agree with the author 100%. If ads get way out of hand obviously the end user will adapt by blocking them. Old media advertising is not the way to go and in fact old media never had 10 advertisements + 10 in-line (text) ads like PCmech and every other tech site has. It ridiculous.

My old media free newspapers like “Metro” and “AM NY” don’t bombard me with advertisements, and they print and ship everyday.

When it comes to adblocking I block text-ads and pop-ups since they are the worst of all the ads I’ve encountered. Sound ads are more annoying, but they don’t seem to exist any longer; probably because everyone including myself would just X out of those sites at the very first sound.

You don’t need a bombardment of ads to make money, you need good content that brings traffic that gets you good advertisers. Sites like Newgrounds.com used to have tons of ads/popups. But as they added more quality content, they got more traffic, and reduced their ads. Now they have no pop ups, 2 ad banners, and 2 more subtle ad-sharing that actually look like content. Their site is so successful they have enough money left over to give cash prizes to web artists for submitting content and to visitors for viewing their content. Haha.

]]> By: dlhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2480 dl Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:52:45 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/#comment-2480 I asked that a page be forwarded and if there is advertising on the page that is OK BUTI did not cede control of my machine to the site and do not tolerate the opening of windows, the running of scripts or other piddling on my machine.Failure to load text before requiring cookies and there are no eyeballs for rent here, unless I have been there before.dl I asked that a page be forwarded and if there is advertising on the page that is OK BUT

I did not cede control of my machine to the site and do not tolerate the opening of windows, the running of scripts or other piddling on my machine.

Failure to load text before requiring cookies and there are no eyeballs for rent here, unless I have been there before.

dl

]]> By: charleshttp://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2345 charles Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:06:15 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/is-blocking-ads-ethical-an-end-user-perspective/#comment-2345 Who cares? Advertisers and marketing people are all scum and do not care about people. They only care about money.The key here is did you agree to the adds to get the web page? If so you may be obligated to let the adds run. If there is a way to block the adds that is permissible by the site, then block all the adds as far as I am concerned. Who cares? Advertisers and marketing people are all scum and do not care about people. They only care about money.

The key here is did you agree to the adds to get the web page? If so you may be obligated to let the adds run. If there is a way to block the adds that is permissible by the site, then block all the adds as far as I am concerned.

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