04-13-2015, 12:22 AM
I use AdBlock Plus for various reasons
* I am poor, living off a disability check. Even if I -wanted- something that was advertised, 99.99% of the time I wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.
* Some sites have so many ads, that my computer would take "forever" to load the page (because for some reason we have to load the ads before any of the actual site content comes up!) and I couldn't start reading/seeing/viewing what I wanted to in the first place
* As you say, not all ads are what we even want to see. I used to see dating site ads on BFT, which I suppose is fine. But I have no interest in dating, and most of them were in bright pink! Not only do I not like pink, it totally contrasted with BFTs nice blue & yellow theme (which ARE my favorite colors!) and was visually annoying.
And then there are some sites (KSL & Yahoo news!) that have the ads as part of their content. I hate getting to a news article only to have it say "watch our video for information and the story details"... they have figured out a way that you can't load ANY video with ad blockers. So I get to watch stupid ads and THEN the news cast.
Plus, what about deaf people? I'm losing my hearing (luckily only in one ear, but that's not the point) who wouldn't even get the info anyway if they didn't have print to refer to?
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* I am poor, living off a disability check. Even if I -wanted- something that was advertised, 99.99% of the time I wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.
* Some sites have so many ads, that my computer would take "forever" to load the page (because for some reason we have to load the ads before any of the actual site content comes up!) and I couldn't start reading/seeing/viewing what I wanted to in the first place
* As you say, not all ads are what we even want to see. I used to see dating site ads on BFT, which I suppose is fine. But I have no interest in dating, and most of them were in bright pink! Not only do I not like pink, it totally contrasted with BFTs nice blue & yellow theme (which ARE my favorite colors!) and was visually annoying.
And then there are some sites (KSL & Yahoo news!) that have the ads as part of their content. I hate getting to a news article only to have it say "watch our video for information and the story details"... they have figured out a way that you can't load ANY video with ad blockers. So I get to watch stupid ads and THEN the news cast.
Plus, what about deaf people? I'm losing my hearing (luckily only in one ear, but that's not the point) who wouldn't even get the info anyway if they didn't have print to refer to?
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