Ad-Block Blocking

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've been running Ghostery on Firefox since I've joined this site (not long ago).  I post reviews, and forum messages.  Everything on the site works fine, with no ads or trackers.

Oddly, the Ghostery/Firefox combination does interfere with some videos -- notably the recent NBC olympic videos and NFL videos.  Dunno why.  I revert to unprotected IE to watch those.  Videos on PA work fine, though.

Anti adblocker for those that make the site? We write the reviewes, we attract the audience. I don't want to turn off my adblcoker, I'm never using ads, my eyes are crazy finding the contents from that much crap I wll never use. It is an abuse and will let many of us off. And will elete all my reviews. Fun is gone, I'm gone

I don't even notice the ads are there, I certainly never read them and don't see the point of adding unnecessary blocking s/ware

So I'm assuming the rest of you on this page are also finding the site somewhat crippled by all these animated ads lately? Pages failing to load and needing to be constantly refreshed (Oh, but don't worry, those ads load perfectly each and every time! ), getting halfway through typing a response and then finding that the ads have done a reload which freezes the page so you have to start over....sh*t, I could go on! Just unbearable.

Vompatti wrote: Why date Russians when there are local sluts near you?

You'll have to date a Russian to understand...

Why date Russians when there are local sluts near you?

I've used addblock here and elsewhere from my home computer (I can't from work) for over three years, and I've never had a problem so far.

And I missed out the start of this controversy, but now that I'm home, I have no anti-addblock message

M@X wrote: Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: K people, srsly?  PA has some of the least obtrusive ads on the internet. A little 100 by 500 or so banner at the top of some pages that (regardless of whether you click on them or not), will be giving a tiny bit of money to the site owners to help keep it running. Really doesn't seem like that big of a deal just to turn off adblock for this site.  Thank you. We really try to use the least intrusive ads.

I do remember that in the nascent early days of PA that M@X pulled out immediately a very intrusive add upon my request, because it was trying to install crap onto my work computer...

I'bve never had a problem with PA since, despite the fact that when I search some equipement on the web for and from work, and I see adds for that on PA (and other sites I frequent) for that equipment for months on end... But that's nothing to do with PA, IMHO, just normal web indiscretion

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I actually fund yearly a couple of prog site (for which I've not invested vast amount of time and work like here for PA) so they can remain add-less.

One has to make a choice >> free usage of a add-riddled site or pay-for-use (though not manadatory, far from it) for an add-less site

Vompatti wrote: From what I heard they paid m@x to delete all the bad reviews k

Oh man. Torman Maxt is pretty bad.

There was a pay to play thing that happened with them? Uhh... hahah

M@X wrote: Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: K people, srsly?  PA has some of the least obtrusive ads on the internet. A little 100 by 500 or so banner at the top of some pages that (regardless of whether you click on them or not), will be giving a tiny bit of money to the site owners to help keep it running. Really doesn't seem like that big of a deal just to turn off adblock for this site.  Thank you. We really try to use the least intrusive ads.

The least instrusive ads, maybe.
To get some money to pay the broadband and all that stuff, I can understand it.

Yet, just surfing on the frontpage of the site and being blocked WITHOUT ANY WARNING THE PREVIOUS DAYS that there was a "anti adblock" tool added to the site was rather displeasant. This way of acting is just rude.

I could have accepted to consider to turn off AdBlock if I had a message in my box when connecting to the forum asking to do so. But the way it had been managed just infuriated me: I will NEVER turn AdBlock off from now on, I'm pretty adamant about it.

By the way, while I'm not an expert on the financial gestion of a website, I tend to think the same thing than Micky: an incitation to donations could be a good idea, rather than a brutal blocking of the AdBlock users.

Another way to get some coins (even if I'm not sure it's a good example): I'm on SoundCloud, and this platform offers extra tools for the professional musicians. Couldn't PA launch a special version of the site for the professionals of music?
For example, some people use the forum to promote records, bands, concerts... Etc. When these announcements come from labels, bands managers and other entreprises, couldn't there be a way to have them pay for having some promotional tools on the site and the forum?