LogFAQs > #876636812

When I was younger, I just hated ads period. There was no higher purpose, I just had no patience for them and blocked them on completely selfish grounds.

However these days I refuse to look at ads because the advertising industry has lost all sense of user experience. Video auto-play ads, ads that cover the page (and worse, improperly designed so they can't be closed without doing something drastic like killing your browser), and auto-redirect bullshit plague every facet of the mobile web. Plus site owners get way too crazy with ad placement and cheapen the appearance of their page to score more ad revenue. It feels like I'm walking through the seedy part of town whenever I pull up to a site with too many ads, where the owner is more interested in monetizing their guests than provide a worthwhile website. There is zero interest in paying attention to what people have to wade through when they visit your page.

However, the worst part about this are sites that then guilt-trip their users (or worse, berate users who circumvent their ads) or outright deny use of their site for people who are just tired of this garbage and want to push back. The utter lack of sympathy for why people are hesitant to give your site's advertising a chance when they've been mistreated on so many other sites is staggering. It's nothing against the site owners yet they take offense to people who should be understandably burnt out on online advertising's b/s and turns into a vicious cycle where site owners are becoming adversarial towards users who never meant any harm towards them.

I'm not opposed to de-blocking a site that has their shit in order but it's difficult to trust online advertising to not fuck up my experience and a little appreciation for that would be nice.
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