Ad Block in WP

[brunoadduarte]

I believe that someone who provides a service/develops an app/creates a website/whatever should be paid should they chose to. However, ads are the cancer of the internet. They are annoying, take up space and I don't want to see them. I block them with no mercy.

- As far as apps go, if the app is worth it, I'll gladly pay to remove the ads. If there is no such option or the price is too steep for what I'm able or willing to pay, I get free space on my phone for an alternative. Case in point: HERE Maps - if that ad crap goes forth in my country, it better have some reasonable way to remove them or it'll go faster than I can blink;
- Internet - I'm forced to see tons of ads an ad that's not even related to the website content in 90% of times. That added to the fact that it's something I didn't want to see in the first place, makes me block the ads. I don't care, create some sort of subscription that gives full access after a trial period or a one time pay for full access, but if you go the easy way and force feed me ads, I'll block'em. I'd rather be paying directly to the content provider than seeing ads.

On the mobile world I blame all this ad crap on Android. People became so used to putting up with ads and not paying for apps (like they should) that not only do they moan (the droid refugees that is) when an app is not free, they also do it when they migrate to other platforms. Judging by most of the store comments, all of the apps in there should be free. -.-

 

[ag1986]

I believe that someone who provides a service/develops an app/creates a website/whatever should be paid should they chose to. However, ads are the cancer of the internet. They are annoying, take up space and I don't want to see them. I block them with no mercy.

- As far as apps go, if the app is worth it, I'll gladly pay to remove the ads. If there is no such option or the price is too steep for what I'm able or willing to pay, I get free space on my phone for an alternative. Case in point: HERE Maps - if that ad crap goes forth in my country, it better have some reasonable way to remove them or it'll go faster than I can blink;
- Internet - I'm forced to see tons of ads an ad that's not even related to the website content in 90% of times. That added to the fact that it's something I didn't want to see in the first place, makes me block the ads. I don't care, create some sort of subscription that gives full access after a trial period or a one time pay for full access, but if you go the easy way and force feed me ads, I'll block'em. I'd rather be paying directly to the content provider than seeing ads.

On the mobile world I blame all this ad crap on Android. People became so used to putting up with ads and not paying for apps (like they should) that not only do they moan (the droid refugees that is) when an app is not free, they also do it when they migrate to other platforms. Judging by most of the store comments, all of the apps in there should be free. -.-

You may be able to pay, thousands of other people in the world cannot, literally cannot. Free, ad-supported sites like Stack Overflow helped out tremendously in my studies as well as in the first years of my working life. Ads may be annoying, but they enable people to access content without having to pay for it, while still allowing the content creator to make money to keep producing more content.

This whole "ads are cancer" is completely ridiculous; if the Internet had been a collection of websites each behind it's own paywall, we wouldn't have the Net as we know it today. Ads and the ad-supported content model is one of the greatest things to have happened to the Internet.

 

[hopmedic]

Myself, I don't believe that ads are cancer... ABUSIVE ads, perhaps - like those that take you to a site that installs malware, or an ad that automatically plays audio on the page - VERY disruptive at work... But ads have made many things possible. How could radio have worked without ads? Television?

Ads definitely have their place, but ads can also abuse the power that they have.

 

[ruben_borbely]

I have never purchased or found anything from website ads. They are mostly just scam(millionth visitor) or annoying(adult content). If they make my website navigation a pain, I do wish to block them. In free apps it's normal to have them. Unless they make the app hard to use.

 

[wgrs]

There is one simple trick, and it works with all your gadets:

Use an ad filtering VPN. Most probably, you must have your own dedicated server as commercial VPNs don't offer this. Costs a few $ per month.

 

[Werditgo]

It's really simple if you are actually willing to be honest with yourself, and not succumb to the greed that is inherent in us all. Instead of putting your desire for an ad-free environment first, ask yourself this question: How does the content creator generate revenue which motivates him to create the content that I enjoy? If you actively block the method by which he creates that revenue stream, and still consume the content, then you are stealing. Plain and simple. No difference between that and walking into Walmart and walking out with a watermellon, bypassing the registers.

Are you serious, I can't work out if you are deliberately trying to spark a discussion or if your not quite right in the head, all your posts seem the same.
People block adverts because they are a waste of bandwidth, screen space, and time. A lot of adverts track users & a lot of sites don't even host the add locally meaning another time delay downloading content I don't want to see.
I pay to use the internet, you the advertiser are the problem, not the poor sap trying to use the internet, particularly on a mobile device.

 

[zarathustra2k1]

I, too, am looking for a decent adblocker for WP-IE.

(must remember never to buy an app from user 'hopmedic'. Aside from calling everyone who blocks unwanted ads 'thieves', can you imagine how mind-bendingly splattered with spam anything they publish might be..? )