Can we provide reasons in the comments?

why not :3

I was about to ask the same thing. I use AdBlock, but on some sites I disable it. It depends on if the page has obnoxious and large ads, in particular Pop-up ones. Or those that make sounds.

I use it on most sites but disable it on sites like FlightRising, because I know it is an independent site, while I tend to leave it on for sites like Youtube, though I know some creators get direct revenue from the ads before their videos. Sadly I have to leave it on while on FA because I have had a few friends pick up viruses from the ads simply displayed on the site.

Voted.
Yup, but Adblock Plus, since Adblock is no longer available for FireFox.

Not AdBlock specifically, but a blocker with the same functionality, yes.

Ads are more often than not just too intrusive and shitty to put up with. So I'd rather have an adblocker and whitelist the ones I want to support, than deal with all ads from every source.

No joke, man. The ads just keep getting worse, and they even make a bunch of noises now. It's obnoxious.

Indeed. They're always getting more invasive - no doubt partially due to adblockers, but it would likely still happen without them - to the point that I almost consider them as poorly as viruses or malware sometimes.

voted. Yep I used I ^^

I do because of Youtube, they only care about mainstream music, movies and games, so I need ad block, I use to turn it off on DA but since they changed premium to core and made it expensive to buy I enabled ad block on DA for turning into a corporatism site.

My life would be meaningless without adBlock

For most sites, yes. I turn it off for Youtube and Furaffinity (I use Stylish to remove 3rd party ads and keep user ads)

Can you help me see user ads?I like the ads personally by user just not...the crap virus ads, can you help guy out?

I installed Stylish for Chrome (extension) and use this as my skin: https://userstyles.org/styles/11313.....rty-ad-blocker

Ahh thanks so much!

I have adblock but I don't actually use it as much (I've disabled it on all the sites I regularly go on, I really only use it for Twitch; fucking preroll ads). I do have a few other blockers though I always have going, uBlock and Disconnect and stuff, which aren't specifically adblockers but that's the majority of what ends up getting blocked.

I use AdBlock, but not here, on FA. Many good artist can be found here via ads.

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Yep, I use it on my pc but on my phone I prefer Adaway, it's more efficient.

umm nope

Why? :P

because i not know what that is XD

https://adblockplus.org/
It blocks ads in your web pages.

okay i try it

ABP (AdBlocker Plus) has given me the least issues out of those that I have tried so far on FireFox. I use it everywhere that is unknown to me, just to be safe. Also, because I'd rather not froth at the mouth and go into a seizure every time I log onto a movie site or blog.

Always.

lo desactivaba cuando dross me lo pedía (?

People dont use adblock?....

I do, but only because I use a LOT of YouTube for music and such, and before I used AdBlock, I had a terrible problem where pages would just upright stop responding because of ads. Videos would outright refuse to load, forcing me to reload the page and have to watch another one until it 'decided' to work, ads wouldn't close on forums, so on. Once I installed it, however, never had a problem again.

Yes I do. Actually I use the windows hostfile so the browsers one doesn't have much work, so the browsers are much faster since windows jus routes everything to localhost.

It eventually makes your host file massive though. I hope you have 127.0.0.1 localhost at the top of your file though.

Here's my hosts file; https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30270697/hosts.txt

Cute :>
Blocking apps.skype.com works pretty good for me, but spams my event file with Schannel error. So I blocked it via IE since Skype uses IE for ads etc.
Here is mine: http://puu.sh/n9gMQ/80cda4f337.txt

Yes and no. I'll cherry pick sites that aren't too intrusive to turn it off on.

UBlock Origin for me.
I've been using an advertisement blocker ever since I had the opportunity to. Now I cannot turn it off...

voted as well, I use it, In a time where everything is instant, why do they have 5 minute unskipable ads on youtube? or loud intrusive ads everywhere else?

I've never bothered with it because the only kinds of adds that annoy me are ones that make noise (I hate having to search through several tabs just to find the one with a musical commercial on it -.-'). Since those kinds of adds are pretty rare on sites I go to, I don't have a use for it :P

Ads can also contain viruses and other bad things in them. I had a virus try to load from a CSS file on facebook once, in a game page ad.

good thing I hardly ever go on Facebook :P

Facebook was one example. Many other places can give you viruses via ads.

Well, to me, the chance of something like that happening just doesn't seem significant enough on well-travelled websites (but maybe that's because I haven't been screwed over by any malware to date :\ )

I only got adblock after getting a nasty virus from an ad on Deviant Art.

Would you rather have something and not need it, than to need it and not have it? :P
Ads are pretty bad on many sites, so I send a message by blocking them. Any site that needs to load up 50 different ads and stuff to stay alive isn't doing very well and may not be a good site to begin with. :P

YouTube :P

Yes, I use uBlock Origin

And the reason why is viruses and malware / spyware

I tried not using it for one day a few months ago and swiftly reenabled it after getting a virus infection.

I've been using adblock in one form or another for so long I don't even know what the internet is with ads. I turned it off just to see and man...what a mess. People use is like this?.. I do have it disabled on blendernation.com and have actually clicked a couple of the relevant ads there.

AdBlock blocked this journal. It's an ad for AdBlock.

Yes, I use it.

I do use it, but only on sites that I've had trouble with loud/obnoxious/obstructive ads.

Who wouldn't use an AdBlocker? Ads are cancerous and make webpages take longer to load. Additionally, running on Flash or Java which causes security issues.

Honestly do yourself a favor and install an AdBlocker to save yourself a headache from intrusive ads.

Yes, always

Used it when I used Firefox. Using Chrome now and I don't know how to activate it. I only use it on sites with annoying ads that fill up the page

No, I use Ublock Origin. better than adblock.

I use it, except on Reddit and FA (where I only block 3rd party ads and keep the user ones c:)

I don't use any kind of adblock honestly, but I feel like I'm in the minority on that. I've bought a few things from ads that I've seen on FB, and I've found a few nice artists on the FA ads here, so I don't mind them.

I have it because I'm always tired of getting hit with ads that prioritize themselves over what you are doing. If it was at the beginning of a video or in the middle, then I am okay with it, but when I am looking at a picture or something, and an advertisement video keeps repeatedly playing, even when I close out of it, I get upset because it's ruining the reason I'm even there.

Yes, but a particular kind I feel like I should draw attention to!

https://goodblock.gladly.io/

It's the same functionality as AdBlock, only every now and again it pops up with a little button. Click it, you see a big advert, and the money raised from that goes towards a charity of your choice from a set list (Stuff like Water.org, Educate!, Action against Hunger, etc.).

It's a fantastic thing that works really well. Highly recommend!

I do, but I disable it on sites that really need the money, ie: FA.

Yes I do. Why? Because it's almost a necessity. To avoid being tracked, to avoid these ads that can be bad for your computer and to make pages loading faster.

O.o wow it works 0 add

ty this

Yeah, I have a pretty crap data allowance before they charge extra.

I always use "Add block plus" on my internet. I hate adds. So distracting and annoying!

Yep, and Flashblock and Stoptube and Noscript and Remove It Permanently. I feel good after making previously bubbly bloaty pages clean and simple. And my ISP has a download cap, so all of the non consensual data loading without those tools would quickly plow me into the slow zone for the rest of the month.

only on sites i dont supports the mods on

Nope!