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NetramE:
Also, with adblock you get to choose what you block.  Firefox blocks popups on its own, and then you can just block the ads you think are especially annoying.  Or, you could just not block ads on the sites you feel like supporting.  I'm not sure how ads work on all sites though, is it per view, or per click?  If it is per click and you weren't going to click the ad anyway, it shouldn't affect anything.

-Marten

Hado-Ken:
I downloaded Adblock a while ago and I don't know if I wasn't using it correctly but it sucked, you could only block animated ads and that's not use to me.

Areckahn:
Personaly, I'd rather not have adblock installed, as long as ads aren't intrusive, I have no objection to showing them.
Its not like I never ever click them either.

Druid:
I don't mind static ads, but the flash and gif ads got to be too much. I hated to do it since I want to support the sites I like, but the ads were causing my machine to crawl and were just going over the intrusive edge. It was mainly the flash ads on techreport.com, the intellitext on Tom's Hardware, and those dumb shoot the whatever ones.

The way I think the ads work is advertisers pay the site for a block of space. The fee is dependant on how much traffic the site gets, so blocking them shouldn't hurt the site persay.

Only a few people are going to take the time to download the plugin and use it, so the vast majority of people surfing the Internet are going to be exposed to the ads anyway. Just like me refusing to shop at Wal-Mart. 99% of the population does, so they coundn't care less if I do or not.

Hado-Ken:
It's also annoying when you're playing a flash game and you have a little distracting 'Adblock' tab at the bottom. I find Adblock gets in the way.

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