>>>http://adage.com/article/ken-wheaton/ad-blocking-parasite/300342/
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>>"Sorry ad blockers, I assume you mean well and you have a point about page-load times and ads junked up with tracking tools and Trojan horses and the like. But theft is still theft, even if it's dressed up as some sort of digital Robin Hood act."
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>>What an asshat. I've been using AdBlock for so long the internet looks foreign to me when I'm on a computer without it.
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>>Advertisers weren't content to serve up static ads, they had to track us everywhere we went. Turns out consumers don't like being tracked, numbered, barcoded, boxed, packaged, and targeted. Who knew? The ad industry is reaping what it sowed.
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>That paragraph nails it, doesn't it? ;) ElReg uses the same quote:
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>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/15/to_read_this_page_please_turn_off_your_ad_blocker/
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>It must be a very strange world when one's entire existence is Kool-Aid.

What gets me is some of the ad-blockers will let companies pay them money to NOT block their ads - aka extortion.

I pretty much never see any ads (including youtube) - but I had to setup a lot of things to do it.

In chrome add these :
a) adblock
b) ghostery
c) adblock plus
d) atguard ad-blocker
e) Privacy badger
f) https everywhere
g) pandora audio ad remover (if you use pandora for free and don't want the ads)


Also download and install ad-munhcer from here www.admuncher.com - it's free now and this thing is great. It blocks ads in pretty much all apps, but it does not work with IE anymore.

I've setup a bunch of my friend's machines like this too and had great success. It takes a few minutes to get them all setup and configured - but it's WAY worth the effort.