Yeah, we talked about this before, but it’s been a few months and I wanted to check in on this.
I asked before about not using an ad blocker here on IMAO. We took some time — Harvey did most of it — going through the ads and ad services to ensure that we weren’t guilty of any intrusive or resource intensive ads. Just like you, we use the Internet and absolutely hate it when we can’t read a Website because of all the ads. And, just like you, we make a point to avoid those ads. Sometimes, that mean running an ad blocker extension or plugin on a browser, and sometimes it means just avoiding the Website altogether. Personally, I’ve gone with the latter route.
Our proposal was for you to turn the ad blocker off and you see if that hurt your enjoyment of the Website. And some of you responded. Most of it was positive, and we thank you.
But I wanted to ask again about the ads. Did you turn off the ad blocker, or add IMAO to the plugin’s white list? How did that go? Are the ads a problem? Do they slow down the loading of the Website? To they intrude on the Website? Did you need to turn the ad blocker back on for IMAO? Let us know how it’s going.
Mind you, we aren’t looking to do anything different. We’re not looking to ad more ads or anything. We also aren’t reducing them; we dropped one ad service already. No, we’re just asking how the experience is.
Let us know in the comments what you think. We appreciate it.
You didn’t drop Ashley Madison, did you? I never knew so many models were anxious to meet me! If things work out the way I think they will, I may retire like Harvey!
I was wondering what happened to all the hot chick ads. I’m getting car insurance ads now. They’ve gone from “Get Some” to “Get Some Insurance” and I’m unhappy about it.
“Put HER On Your Summer Reading List”
What kind of innuendo is that??
I disabled ABP, again, I do not see any new ads, no pop-ups anyway.
You should not see any pop-up ads. All should be contained within the sidebar.
I never notice ads in the first place. It’s like white noise. You just kind of tune it out.
I don’t know why people get so worked up about it. Have they never gone to the fridge during the commercial break? Yea, they’re commercials. It’s when you go to the fridge, or to take a leak. If you were born during the television era, you were over that by the time you were toddling.
Now that you mention it, I haven’t noticed any ads lately…my apologies. Lately, I’ve been trying to keep this site and a few others unblocked. I failed. I was blocking again.
When I unblocked just now (using the uBlock Origin plugin), I still didn’t get ads. Turns out the firefox tracking blocker also can block ads. I thought it was pretty useless and just sent the “do-not-track” header…yay Firefox? Also, uBlock Origin doesn’t block the ads for Hellbender or Sidequest, but the Firefox tracking-blocker does. I consider those site-content links rather than advertising, so maybe there’s a way to make those links more robust.
Anyhoo, after disabling the tracking-blocker too, the ads I’m seeing now don’t seem to be bad at all, but clearly I can’t offer an opinion formed over time. I will say that if you decide to implement any ad-block nagger, I have found the ones that are a single line at the top, “ad block detected: consider unblocking to support this site”, to be both unobtrusive and something I tend to respond to for sites I frequent. Since I won’t run a browser without default blocking(for security and usability reasons), I am more than accepting to see unblock requests/reminders from websites that depend on ads.
Those nags? We hate them. The only nags we actually have are WordPress generated, and that’s because of privacy and transparency. Hate them too, but we don’t have much of a choice on that
Once again I’m not seeing the humor. This Basil either has the driest British wit ever or he’s just not funny?
Where’s Basil? Now that guy can make me laugh.
You know how Google tracks whatever you look up and sends you ads based on your personal interests? Well, I looked up “bikinis”. I still get the ads, but they are a lot more fun.
That’s using technology to your fullest advantage!