If you block the ad blocking, I block your site, simple as that. Pretty much the same reason I stopped watching TV, too many ads. (and political garbage) I buy box sets or use other methods to view the programs/ sites I want to see. I do not need to have videos pop up about things I was not looking for, much less products I'm not interested in blasted all over my screen. I'm pretty sure I know what I was looking for without some website telling me I may be interested in something totally unrelated to the original subject I was searching. 

I do not use pop up ads, i use sidebar ads like i have for god knows how long
 
context ads are often a joke, which is why I do not use them much anymore
 
so i flog video cards mostly
 

Reads like you don't know what you're doing and blaming someone else.

Brad_Hawthorne
Reads like you don't know what you're doing and blaming someone else.

Really? I have run my site for so many years, before I ran a BBS with DOS games. Recently I upped DOS 6.22 with Hyper-V so I could play some of the old DOS games I gave.
 

veganfanatic

Brad_Hawthorne
Reads like you don't know what you're doing and blaming someone else.

Really? I have run my site for so many years, before I ran a BBS with DOS games. Recently I upped DOS 6.22 with Hyper-V so I could play some of the old DOS games I gave.
 

My assumption is you posted that link because you wanted peer commentary on your article. If not, you're just using your site as a platform to whine about something. Your article is neither informative nor entertaining. What about the article is something others would want to know? It reads like you did something odd with your configuration of your site and it didn't work like you wanted it too -- therefore you wanted to tell the world how corporate entities have wronged you in the process. One would assume that you'd find a solution instead of writing an article if it was really important to you?
 
I run several business sites that use WordPress. Heck, I even SYSOPed a few BBSes in the 80's. That doesn't magically make me credible either.

I disabled comments on WP as spam bots are hard to cope with so to save time administering I use forums 
 
I ask, is it right to hijack a web site for some asinine license agreement change, what happened to email?
 

howdy2u2
If you block the ad blocking, I block your site, simple as that. Pretty much the same reason I stopped watching TV, too many ads. (and political garbage) I buy box sets or use other methods to view the programs/ sites I want to see. I do not need to have videos pop up about things I was not looking for, much less products I'm not interested in blasted all over my screen. I'm pretty sure I know what I was looking for without some website telling me I may be interested in something totally unrelated to the original subject I was searching. 

I feel two ways about ads. I do realize how they are helpful and may help provide revenue for small time youtubers, website creaters, etc. I enable ads on my favorite youtubers to support them. BUT our world literally revolves around advertisements now, it is literally impossible to go a single day without seeing hundreds of ads in some way or another. Subconsciously ads affect the way we think and affect the way our children think. Its easy to argue that our everyday actions are affected by advertisements. People have become so oblivious to advertisements around them that they barely even realize they are there. When you stop and actually think about it, its absurd how many advertisements exist in our culture now. Very off topic to the thread but I wrote a paper about it a few years so I wanted to give my .02 lol

willem445

howdy2u2
If you block the ad blocking, I block your site, simple as that. Pretty much the same reason I stopped watching TV, too many ads. (and political garbage) I buy box sets or use other methods to view the programs/ sites I want to see. I do not need to have videos pop up about things I was not looking for, much less products I'm not interested in blasted all over my screen. I'm pretty sure I know what I was looking for without some website telling me I may be interested in something totally unrelated to the original subject I was searching. 

I feel two ways about ads. I do realize how they are helpful and may help provide revenue for small time youtubers, website creaters, etc. I enable ads on my favorite youtubers to support them. BUT our world literally revolves around advertisements now, it is literally impossible to go a single day without seeing hundreds of ads in some way or another. Subconsciously ads affect the way we think and affect the way our children think. Its easy to argue that our everyday actions are affected by advertisements. People have become so oblivious to advertisements around them that they barely even realize they are there. When you stop and actually think about it, its absurd how many advertisements exist in our culture now. Very off topic to the thread but I wrote a paper about it a few years so I wanted to give my .02 lol

I am a small business web site, and today I rearranged the template a tad to group social networking instead of being all over
 
The election has been such a joke this year that some media sites are pure crap! what else happened? in italy an earthquake did not even make the news, how about the stock market
 
so this is why gaming is growing, get away from the nonsense