On 8/18/07, Nishit Dave stargazer.dave@gmail.com wrote:
when they show ads? Are you forced to sit in a cinema hall when ads are
You pay to enter the cinema hall, so it's a different deal.
This is trash. Adblock was created to help users keep a healthy interest in the internet, when things began to go out of hand with screaming, in-your-face, obnoxious ads that took up 75% of the screen's real estate and tripled download times. I block as many flash animations I can see, as well as ads.
If some site doesn't allow firefox/adblock then forget it -- there will be another who will. Sooner or later they'll realize that it didn't really make a difference. Their viewership will have dropped and so too will the eventual number of clicks on the ads. The *density* may not necessarily increase (depends on the type of crowd the site attracts).
For many, the screaming ads don't really make a difference. They get used to getting content out of the trash. It's just like traveling in Mumbai -- the conditions suck big time and something should be done about it, but in the end everyone gets used to it.