| Ads are encourging people to use ABP I typically don't load ABP right away. The first site that shows me one of the obnoxious popovers or mouseovers sends me fuming to ABP, and once installed the last thing I'm going to do is spend time whitelisting non obnoxious ads. Purveyors of non obnoxious ads might find their time better spent helping to manage the ad block lists rather than complain that ABP is evil.
The picture bandwidth doesn't bother me. The bandwidth and browser CPU used by the javascript to support all these ads are what I'm trying to get rid of. Using 100% of a Pentium 4 for something I don't even want is a surefire way to get on my crap list.
If other comments are any hint, looks like I'll need to install ABP onto peoples' computers that are constantly getting spyware.
Too many Internet ads are completely fake anyways, like "Free iPod" or "Microsoft servers are the most reliable" or "Win big with online gambling." The high percentage of charlatans tells me that the advertising medium is broken and I just ignore it until it is fixed. ABP ignores the ads and cleans up surfing the Internet quite nicely. |
