[wernercd]

Personally, I wouldn't mind SOME ads feeding companies... Hell, I'll watch short videos to get ahead in some games I play...

the problem is massive ads, 3 line stories turning into multi page ad fests, "Around the Web" type crap, security risks injected via ad networks, etc...

It's not the ads per-se: it's the MASSIVE abuse of ads. it's why we can't have nice things.

Same can be said of TV shows and how it went from a minute of ads... t0o 10 minutes out of a 30 minute slot being ads.

[nerdponx]

Good point about TV. I'd happily subscribe to cable if it weren't for the fact that I'd be paying to have ads blared at me every 5 minutes.

[smsm42]

I just DVR everything and then skip ads. I can't watch non-recorded TV anymore - not only ads are extremely long and mind-numbingly boring, they insist on showing the same ads several times during the same show! I don't know how people tolerate it.

[jghn]

You're still affected as the time allotment for actual content is going down. Even reruns are getting compressed

[Osiris]

I recently had to add special rules to ublock because cnet.com and cnn.com were auto playing videos that were completely unrelated to the story, and there were huge blocks of ads on the left, right, and in the middle of the story.

I'm also fine with some advertising, but auto-playing video with sound is where I draw the line (especially when bandwidth sensitive).

[ukyrgf]

I've started building a document with my uBlock filters to sync between browsers because of auto-playing videos and static divs covering a third of my screen in web apps. I am now actively involved in enhancing my web experience rather than just setting a broad/loose filter to get rid of most of the junk... that can't be good for content creators going forward.