Interesting Results

[andrewducker]

2/3 of us block ads, 2/3 of us think that the future of news sites is advertising based, and nearly 2/3 of us would miss news sites if they vanished.

This seems to indicate that, at minimum, 1/3 of is are acting counter to our own interests...

Comments

[andrewducker]

Apparently 5% of FF users use ABP, so yes, you're right :->

I'm not offended by the idea of advertising - as I said elsewhere I'd be happy to see text ads, I was only offended by things like Punch The Monkey, which would have noise, and lots of bright movement.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Nope, I didn't think you were particularly, but I know quite a few people who really seem to dislike the idea of ads, and go to considerable lengths to block any and all - except Google ads, sometimes.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Adverts with noise really irritate me. Those stupids ads which have rollover bits to cover whatever you're reading are equally bad. I'm fine with non-moving and text-only ads.