Friday, October 2, 2015

Ad Blocking in a nutshell

I block ads and you should too, and I will until the following changes:
  1. Third party Ad networks contain malware
    1. That, combined with bugs in browsers, means your system is wide open to fake ads that can take over your system
    2. There's nothing the web site I'm visiting can do about it if the ads are served by a network
    3. There's no excuse to get cryptolocker from the Huffington Post
  2. Ad content takes up too much bandwidth
    1. All my connections have data limits.  I do everything I can to control that data, and ad blockers it only one thing in my list 
  3. The size of the ad content takes too long to load
    1. Ad blockers noticeably speed up the web browsing experience 
    2. It's not right that I think my connection is down because I'm waiting for a flash video
  4. The latency of ads slows down the whole site
    1. As above, but this happens for different reasons 

See all this?  They are Objective reasons that the advertising model is harmful to consumers.  I said nothing about the aesthetics, where the images don't match the content, or whether the colors in the ad clash with the site, or whether I'm interested in Ashley Madison, or clothes for "big and tall" men,  or colostomy bags, for that matter.

I don't care about the ads themselves, you gotta pay for the web, it's the networks that are ruining the experience, and people will block until the networks get their act together.


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