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>consider turning off ad block on the pages that you enjoy

I never understood that logic. If you don't enjoy a website then you shouldn't visit it. That way you will only visit websites that you do enjoy, so you have no reason to use ad block.

If you're browsing websites that you've never visited before then you shouldn't be using ad block at all until you've decided if you enjoy it or not. If you do then you should make a list of each website you visit with ad block enabled and send each of them compensation for the costs they made for your free entertainment.



About visiting websites that you've never visited before. It's understandable why people have ads turned off. I don't know if they have ads or not; I don't know what ad networks they're using; I don't know if the ads will have sound or not; I don't know if the ads are secure or serving malware.

I chose not to run an ad blocker, but when you have smiley ads that shout "Hello!" at you, or that mosquito ad, well, advertisers really need to put pressure on the creators of those lousy ads to just stop doing it.




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