Serious question: do you use an ad blocker when browsing the internet?
Edit: I ask that because I use an ad blocker, as does everyone that I know. And I can’t think of a way to reconcile blocking ads with truly believing that ads are good for me.
I am strongly anti-advertising, but I always like to hear from people with an opposite point of view.
I work in publishing. Multiple times I have seen developers who were running ad blockers and then had trouble figuring out why their own sites weren’t loading properly.
No, I have never used an ad blocker, and I know plenty of people who aren’t bothered to either.
I am pretty UX-focused, but I don’t frequent any sites were I would think: god, this is unusable because of the ads. (I do find sites where UX is bad for other reasons)
My current biggest annoyance is that I was trying to hack something on iOS, opened bunch of medium articles and now I am being forced to pay for it, which I’m pretty sure would not be warranted given my usage of it. (I do pay for other services where provided value outweighs cost, like say Spotify). I’d take ad-supported Medium over pay-wall Medium any day (as a customer, maybe as a producer ads would not be a viable model).
Edit: I ask that because I use an ad blocker, as does everyone that I know. And I can’t think of a way to reconcile blocking ads with truly believing that ads are good for me.
I am strongly anti-advertising, but I always like to hear from people with an opposite point of view.