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No, ads are theft of screen real-estate. And if we talk ethics, I'd question the ethical correctness of advertising in the first place.
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I am somewhat amused at the idiocy of advertisers assuming my unwilling viewing of adverts has any positive contribution to their revenue.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Agree completely. Ads fall into two categories:
0) Those that interfere with what I'm trying to do. - These enrage me, and tend to get the companies featured on my boycott list.
1) Those that are non-intrusive enough that I'm able to ignore them subconsciously. Since I maintain my own block lists; these still generally load. If the site hosting them is able to suck a bit of money out of a stupid advertisers bank account by hosting them more power to them.
The former category includes both ads that throw themselves in my face, and giant clickbait containers at the bottom of pages that strangle web page load time. The latter are particularly bad for the sites hosting them; because if the content they have is even marginally good enough to bring me back I tend to start optimizing the page load by blocking everything that isn't article content from the top down: By the time I've gotten to the clickbait box at the bottom the site header, and related content sidebars that might increase my time on the site are both generally long gone.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Given the amount of malware, and the ethics of most companies, it is unwise to not block each and every ad.
If you're going to label it theft, then you'll be labelling me a thief.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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And yet we all want free news and free weather reports and free games and free....... Whatever it is free is better. I wonder who pays all those developers to create the content, hmmm? Out of what revenue, hmmm? The enigma...
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gstolarov wrote: free is better
No, free is never better.
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gstolarov wrote: And yet we all want free news and free weather reports and free games and
free.......
I'm sorry, but when did we agree on that?
gstolarov wrote: I wonder who pays all those developers to create the content, hmmm?
Please enlighten me, how much have the developers of Joomla or Wordpress been paid?
gstolarov wrote: The enigma...
Where?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Just swear that you never check traffic or plan your travel using google map, or check news using yahoo news. You also don't use hotmail, gmail or ymail. And that you don't watch hulu or youtube.
As far as how much developers from Joomla or Wordpress get paid feel free to google "Wordpress revenue" - that is unless use of ad supported search engine is against your principles.
I'm publishing ad supported games on Google Play, iTunesConnect and Microsoft Windows/WinPhone markets. While I don't care mush if some people go through the trouble of installing ad-blockers, I would not be going through the trouble is there was no way to get reimbursed and banner ads provide an easy way of doing so. Funny enough until I started making money from the games, my wife though that ads are just an annoyance. Only getting personally involved you realize - people need to get paid for their effort and this is legitimate way. I'm not alone - it's $146 bln market. While I tried to sell some games the ad revenue is by 300 times exceeds my sales revenue. As much as I don't want to wait through hulu ads, as a software developer I realize that this is how they make money. In that way they are different from Netflix that charges for the content upfront but apparently plenty of people willing just like me to sit through the ads. On the other hand plenty of people with their wallet vote for Netflix. But to take a high moral stand that "I didn't sign for the ads" and then go through the effort of blocking ads while consuming content - it at very lest not kosher.
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Good point. I'm going to think about it some more 
Still, I'd rather have the option to buy it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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No. Especially when the site is prevented from being usable or from loading due to the overload of ads, especially Flash-based and JavaScript-based ads.
Not only do these steal my bandwidth, they also steal my CPU and Memory resources.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
modified 6-Apr-15 12:39pm.
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I was just thinking about ads today. The thing I don't like about online advertisement is that they are always showing me ads for services or products I already own. Where's the ROI in that? Are marketers just that bad at their jobs?
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The world's largest software maker hits a milestone Saturday. Read its co-founder and former CEO's letter to employees asking them to remember the transformative properties of technology. 79 billion thanks!
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After being shut down for two years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online, CERN announced Sunday. This is what happens when you don't visit Windows Update regularly
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If you’re a mobile development studio in the U.S., the best days of demand outstripping supply will soon be over. "Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good."
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Not dead yet: Microsoft, founded 40 years ago as of April 4, is still making some surprising strategic moves. Coming soon: the mid-life crisis
In which Microsoft buys a sports car, and goes off to 'find itself'
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The reasoning behind the change is to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings due to new World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards regarding DNT. So...letting companies track you is OK for privacy now?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So...letting companies track you is OK for privacy now?
Yes, unless the end user explicitly opts out. That's the W3C's definition of DNT, not Microsoft's.
/ravi
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In this case though I think Microsoft had it right - enable DNT by default. This protects the average user who doesn't know to enable it, while still allowing people to opt in should they choose.
TTFN - Kent
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Agreed. They were forced to change it to abide by the W3C definition.
Although I suppose one could argue that the Windows express installation process should ask the user to select their DNT choice.
/ravi
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Except that all the ad-scum forced the W3C/MS's hand to require explicit opt out by ignoring the DNT header from IE by calling it not a user choice.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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DNT is a joke anyways. Websites can happily ignore it.
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Right tool for the right job, but chances are the right tool is Java. Don’t choose a language because you want to try something new: it’s going to be a maintenance nightmare. "I speak 23 different languages, pick one"
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Are you really sure, dass es eine gute Idee ist, mezclar los idiomas así? Vous ne pouvez pas imaginer, il disordine che deve essere montato, si la gent es posa tonta.
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Are you really sure, that it is a good idea, mixing languages like that? You can not imagine, the chaos it might be, if people starts playing dumb.
disclaimer: I could have used google translator to continue, but I think you get the idea...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The beta release marks a very significant “state transition” in the move towards 1.0. In particular, with the beta release, all libraries and language features that are planned to be stable for 1.0 have been marked as stable. I'm all out of "Rust Never Sleeps" quotes, fill in your own.
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You what else you find a lot of in a stable?
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