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  • Nope. I simply refuse to watch ads.

    Either the website or their author will have provided the means to support them directly, or I won't. And if they try forcing ads on me, I quit using their website.

    I'm fine with spending money to support content or services I appreciate. I refuse to waste a second of my life watching ads. That's the reason why we have not owned a TV since the early 00s: my spouse and I realized we were screwed as, at least here in France, we were supposed to pay for watching TV but still would have to watch ads, more and more of them for that matter. So, gone the TV.

  • Once upon a time, long ago, I did it for reddit but they burnt that good will to the ground. Give a corporation an inch and they'll take as many miles as they can before someone stops them: I block everything now and if it won't load then I don't bother with it. If it's really important I'll still find a way to view it but never again will I allow ads anywhere I can help it. Advertisements are a very serious threat to security and privacy. Malware and scams are routine in ads, even ads from known corporations that are supposedly safe, like Google.

  • If ads went back to a static image I would turn off my adblocker.

    But, most sites are just too annoying without an adblocker. If a site will not function with an adblocker I leave the site.

  • There are a few car specific forums still running vBulletin that I pop the blocker off for. E.g, cb7tuner.com. They use unobtrusive banners on the top and bottom of the page and I do want to support them. Those are the only exceptions though.

  • Rules to unblock:

    Visit site, non obnoxious pops that says please unblock and allowed me to continue anyway. After I continue without unblocking, it has reasonable, clean ads in the margins, not distributed throughout the content.

    I will them permanently unblock them.

  • The only times I do so are when they only run in-house adds. RoyalRoad is an example, they run advertisements for creators that use their platform, and its useful to find content you might enjoy.

    Other than that though? Nothing. I have so many layers of add filtering that basically nothing gets through.

  • I disabled adblock for a forum I use. Some time after that, the owner independently decided to disable adverts for supporting members, so now it looks pretty much the same.

  • I disable on 2 of my local news sites because they need every penny, but not on local news sites owned by major publishers.

  • I always end up disabling it on banking and .gov websites, just because I've run into issues where uBlock has broken those kinds of poorly made websites pretty often.

  • DuckDuckGo

    I'm ok with static ads. Targeted advertising gets a block from me.

  • I do for creators I want to support. But I'll turn it back on right away if they're too annoying or sketchy.

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