{"id":464,"date":"2010-03-07T20:19:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T00:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2019-03-18T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T23:15:04","slug":"re-why-do-i-block-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/re-why-do-i-block-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Why do I block ads?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re: Why do I block ads?<\/a><\/p>\n

I recently decided to block ads as well, but for different reasons. For the most part, advertising on the web is something I don’t mind. The deciding factor for me is whether or not it prevents me from seeing the content I want to see. This is what made pop-ups so annoying. They got in the way, and you had to close the pop-up just to see the page you came to see.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately advertisers have been using Flash ads to provide the same experience.<\/p>\n

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It’s the same user experience, but different implementation. (In terms of Firefox development, this is bad because users are told that Firefox has a pop-up blocker, but it doesn’t block these pop-up ads.)<\/p>\n

There are also cases where ads push the content out of the view area, forcing you to scroll down.<\/p>\n

Sometimes just mousing over the content area of an ad will cause it to expand and prevent you from reading what you want.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this has become way too common lately, and I finally decided to install Adblock Plus<\/a>. I understand that many websites rely on ads for revenue, but so did netscape.com. That’s why the Mozilla pop-up blocker was disabled and hidden in Netscape 7. I’m sure something can be worked out, where advertisers are forced to use a technology that cannot get in the way of viewing other website content. If that were to happen, I would bet that a lot less users would have adblockers installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Re: Why do I block ads? I recently decided to block ads as well, but for different reasons. For the most part, advertising on the web is something I don’t mind. The deciding factor for me is whether or not… <\/p>\n

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