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Originally Posted by teh603
Hate to be Negative Nancy, but wasn't there a court case a while ago which established that using any sort of an ad blocker is theft from the website operator?
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I don't use an ad blocker. It's just an amazing coincidence that obnoxious-ad-server.com is registered to 127.0.0.1 on my computer, tablet, ereader, and phone. Similarly, it is possible to configure some web browsers to not load media or to only load media from the host that you are visiting. None of this are ad blockers. It is simply refusing to retrieve an undesired resource.
More seriously though: advertisers brought ad blockers upon themselves. If they settled for less obnoxious ads, they would find that far fewer people block them. Sure, they are less noticeable. But the chance of being overlooked is better than not being seen at all (i.e. blocked).