Ad blockers really useful?

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new2fios join:2006-07-20 Camillus, NY	Ad blockers really useful? If I understand this correctly, the ad blocker will: a) not reduce the time to download the page, since they are still being served to the client. b) leave a white space where the ad would have gone. I don't see any joy out of this. I don't mind the ads so much as the added time to download them, often from ad servers that are much slower than the web site's own. Solve that problem and I will have no need for ad blockers.
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rick752 Premium join:2006-01-27 New York	Incorrect: Most ads are not downloaded .... many spaces are removed (depending on your subscription choices)
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AdamD21 join:2002-01-09 Maspeth, NY	reply to new2fios Actually it does reduce the time to load the page: the ads are not loaded as many are blocked by domain the images are coming from. Actually one problem I was having is that many sites would not load completely because the browser was waiting for some ad related data - you could tell it by looking in the web browser status bar, something like "waiting for images.doubleckick.net..." One prime example was ArsTechnica that frequently would not load because of some stupid add related junk was timing out. I'd rather take an empty white box over irrelevant, distracting ad any time though. A.
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