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Do you use adblock? Why? Why not? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by tsukii to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, I use an adblocker (several, actually). However, as someone who pays a number of 'creators' / media sources directly rather than watching ads, I don't agree that I "don't care about it". Ads are:

pointless for me, since I rarely if ever follow up on them;
annoying because of the repetition;
a good way of losing my attention. If something irrelevant interrupts (e.g., mid-roll ads on a video) then I will stop paying attention to the ad and forget to come back to the video;
potential security issues (in case of active content on web pages);
slow down the web and reduce usability, which I get very impatient with.

If a website serves ads, then using ad blockers will give me the opportunity to have a look and see if I like it without getting annoyed and closing it without looking. If I want to keep using it and there's an option to pay a reasonable fee to a reasonable organisation that will use the money appropriately to remove the ads, then I'll do it. If there's an ad-free site that I end up consistently using, then I'll consider sponsoring it if that option is available.

But if something is only available ad-supported and no other option is available, then ultimately I just don't agree with their business model and won't buy into it. If I have the opportunity to provide that feedback, I will, but if a website/"creator" just says "tough, you have to look at my ads (or some other unreasonable option)" then the reply is simply "tough, I won't" and that's that. Things don't usually work out that way though. Most sites I use are not in that category and in the future I aspire to make that no sites at all, so theoretically the ad blocker is not required, but remains there as a security/anti-tracking safeguard.