I posted this question because I once saw a tweet that said something like:
“If you use adblock, you don’t care about creator’s point blank”
What is your opinion on this? Do you agree with them?
Of course. And I’ll continue to do so as long as advertisement is detrimental to my online experience. If it wastes my time by forcing me to watch an ad before a video, if it distracts me from reading a text because of animations, if it tries to scam or shock me, I’m better off blocking it. I’m not against advertisement as communication that a useful product or service exists, I’m against advertisement abuse and greed.
I’ll happily pay for, donate to, or otherwise support services important to me that need and deserve it.
Ads have become so invasive that most sites are simply unusable without ad blocking. If I care about the creator, I usually pay the creator in some way.
So far for every project that I care of, creator, software or news, I pay for. Everything else, like YouTube or Social Media are mostly alive because of my content or my user data. If that’s not enough then I won’t really miss it. I grew up with much smaller communities and so far every site that was complaining about AdBlock, also wasn’t worth disabling it. For some streams I turn off adblocker once in a while until I can’t take the ads anymore. Sites that complain undervalue sharing of articles, a click doesn’t cost them as much as a possible ads viewer would gain them.
I’m also in the Pihole gang. Sometimes, using an app outside of my home network reminds me, that I should buy the add free version, because I use it all the time… I don’t care too much, if an app or website shows some ads. Butin general they are designed as nuisance or trap. And I don’t like that. On my work machine I use ublock origin, since for some reason my work does not block ads on network level.
I use AdBlock because I don’t want to sacrifice 70% of my viewport to obxonious and intrusive targetted ads. I never click on ads anyway.
As Louis Rossmann said, supporting a creator directly via patreon Kofi or other means has way more impact than watching ads.
I used to disable ad blocking on Youtube so creators don’t get screwed until Youtube decided to play an ad in the middle of a concert recording. I use both UBlock Origin and AdGuard now, not because I don’t care about creators, but because I want the internet to actually be usable. Unintrusive ads are fine, but I don’t trust sites to not start with popups and auto-play video ads so they all get blocked.
