Do you disable adblocker when a site nicely asks you to?

[Dispraise]

Do you remove the condom when the prostitute asks you nicely to?

[exochaft]

I prefer sites with pay walls over advertisements, so I haven't unblocked anything (except one site for very specific reasons). Worst offenders seems to be news sites (have even seen some begging for money now), but the trickier ones are likely file download sites that semi-hide the download links in a sea of advertisements that all look like the download links.

[Laerrus]

Depends on the website. I have a few that I have decided to permanently block their adds and any of these three reasons are why they stay blocked.

1.) Ads that are embedded with viruses.
2.) Pop-up ads (seriously, fuck off!)
3.) Ads with sound.

[Martymark]

If a stranger runs up to you at a traffic light and is rattling your car door and asks you to unlock it, do you?

[ojblade]

no, I just dont go to the site or disable it to read what I need and turn it back on after

[Mocking Jay]

People who use ad blockers should be charged and criminally prosecuted

You are STEALING revenue from them if you do because it is their business model.
I always watch ads for full duration and click on banners because I don't engage in PIRACY and respect hard work of others.

[chazus]

Nope. It's not that I don't like ads (I mean, I don't), but it's the software, and the fact that websites don't screen them, that worries me.

A good 20% of my tech revenue honestly comes from people not using an ad blocker and getting Microsoft scam popups.

That said, if a website doesn't function because of blocked ads, I will turn it off, annoyed.

[Shadowferal]

Depends on the website. But as a rule I never disable my adblock or my no-script.

[Unholyground]

It really depends on the site, but usually I keep it on unless it is YouTube then I turn it off.

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People who use ad blockers should be charged and criminally prosecuted

You are STEALING revenue from them if you do because it is their business model.
I always watch ads for full duration and click on banners because I don't engage in PIRACY and respect hard work of others.

Well the problem is how some sites go about advertising, if I had to watch a 30 second video every hour then sure I would do it, but intrusive advertising is not acceptable.

[Lahis]

Never.

And if the site refuses to work with adblock, I just close it altogether.

[Blandalf]

Never.

And if the site refuses to work with adblock, I just close it altogether.

This. So many sites are doing this now :/

[chazus]

People who use ad blockers should be charged and criminally prosecuted

You are STEALING revenue from them if you do because it is their business model.
I always watch ads for full duration and click on banners because I don't engage in PIRACY and respect hard work of others.

Incorrect.

Simply put, I mean, that's just false so.. Yeah.

[AlamarAtMMOC]

Not on my work PC... Though that's never come up... I often do on my Personal PC, but it's also rare, and generally not on sites I visit often. Sites I trust, I already have it disabled.

[Mocking Jay]

Incorrect.

Simply put, I mean, that's just false so.. Yeah.

Great logic and arguments thanks

[Animalhouse]

Sometimes. But most of the time I do, I immediately turn it right the goddamn fuck back on because the site then takes the chance to assault me with a million popups, some uncomfortable porn ads on sidebars, and one of those arse-awful ads that play fucking sound right at the very bottom of the page.

This ^

And any site that tries to force me is never visited again.

[Planetdune]

No.........

[Dadwen]

If I like the site I give them a chance but any of those loud playing or even just auto playing videos popups etc and it's over with.

[chazus]

Great logic and arguments thanks

I dunno what you want to hear.

Do I really need to 'provide proof' that we landed on the moon? No, not really.
Do I really need to 'provide proof' that blocking ads isn't 'theft'? No, not really.

[Z-Man]

I can't remember the last time I did. Most ads interfere so heavily with the site I can't be bothered.

Same. The last site I looked at with the blocker off was unusable. Now I just find another site if one decides they don't want me looking at their stuff.

(There are ways to show ads on a site without triggering a blocker, but that takes more work than just allocating space to a third-party ad streamer.)

[Arkthugal]

I'll turn off adblock just as soon as ads stop being obnoxious, obtrusive, and filled with malware.