Several web sites that I like to visit are NOT allowing access because I use an ADBLOCKER...

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Ombligo wrote:
I use adblocker, but also understand that primary news sites really need the revenue to stay in business. Newspapers, magazines, and the like are using those ads to survive not just milk you. Without that revenue, there will be no site to visit.

I'll gladly unblock once I know that I'm no longer being tracked or targeted.

I want Web sites to pretend they're paper magazines. Until they do, I'm blocking.

[$tevie]

Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]
I use adblocker, but also understand that primary news sites really need the revenue to stay in business. Newspapers, magazines, and the like are using those ads to survive not just milk you. Without that revenue, there will be no site to visit.

I'll gladly unblock once I know that I'm no longer being tracked or targeted.

I want Web sites to pretend they're paper magazines. Until they do, I'm blocking.
So, you want them to charge you $5.95 before you can read it?

I'm with Ombligo. If a news site asks me to turn off my adblocker, I do.

[Bixby]

Article Accelerator wrote: I want Web sites to pretend they're paper magazines. Until they do, I'm blocking.

No offense, but I'm not sure you understand the internet.

[Uncle Wig]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=Article Accelerator]
[quote=Ombligo]
I use adblocker, but also understand that primary news sites really need the revenue to stay in business. Newspapers, magazines, and the like are using those ads to survive not just milk you. Without that revenue, there will be no site to visit.

I'll gladly unblock once I know that I'm no longer being tracked or targeted.

I want Web sites to pretend they're paper magazines. Until they do, I'm blocking.
So, you want them to charge you $5.95 before you can read it?

I'm with Ombligo. If a news site asks me to turn off my adblocker, I do.
Same here, for news sites.

[davemchine]

I don't object to advertising but I do object to the AMOUNT of advertising. Some websites are 50% or more advertisements and that is simply ridiculous. I also object to tracking. I would gladly pay for quality news reporting but there is no mechanism in place to do so on any of the tech websites I visit.

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davemchine wrote:
I don't object to advertising but I do object to the AMOUNT of advertising. Some websites are 50% or more advertisements and that is simply ridiculous. I also object to tracking. I would gladly pay for quality news reporting but there is no mechanism in place to do so on any of the tech websites I visit.

Yeah, there was a thread here once with a link that listed the ratio of content to advertising. I think that something like 70% of the data on the Boston newspaper site was advertising. You can't expect people to pay for that with their data plans, especially someone like me who uses TracFone.

People also object to the aggressive and intrusive way that advertising is done on websites.

I think that most of the extensions I use are designed to stop websites from doing things I object to. I wish someone would come up with an extension that would kill modal overlays.

[Buzz]

Just keep a secondary browser handy to use for those sites... if your "main" browser(s) have adblockers, you can leave 'em alone and go to your secondary, unblocked browser for those sites where you can bookmark them, and/or copy & paste the link when you switch. Go back to your main browser until you hit the adfull site.

Of course this recommendation is for folks w/ ample RAM on their machine... it tends to slow down minimal configurations at times, so in those case the other suggestions above may be more applicable.
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[$tevie]

Also check out uBlock, which has so many filters I can hardly understand wtf they are telling me. -

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Bixby wrote:
[quote=Article Accelerator]I want Web sites to pretend they're paper magazines. Until they do, I'm blocking.

No offense, but I'm not sure you understand the internet.
No offense, but I think I do. Even I have managed to learn a thing or two after 22 years of Internet experience.