this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023

236 points (97.6% liked)

Asklemmy

43984 readers

709 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

mekhos@lemmy.ml

14specks@lemmy.ml

236

Do you use adblock? Why? Why not? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by tsukii@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

267 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I posted this question because I once saw a tweet that said something like:

"If you use adblock, you don't care about creator's point blank"

What is your opinion on this? Do you agree with them?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] LambentMote@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

!

This is the pcgamer website without adblock!

I discovered this this morning as I was trying out a Lemmy app (thunder) instead of my ad blocked Firefox and followed an article link.

In less than 800 words there were:

3 full page ads to dismiss
an auto playing video taking up 1/4 of the screen that follows as you scroll
a sticky animated footer banner
and a half page animated ad between each paragraph.

Fuck that. Fuck any organizational that does that to it's product or has that level of contempt for it's users.

I support content creators but ad block is necessary for safety, privacy, and the overall usability of the Internet.