<story><title>Poll: Do you use an adblocker?</title><text>Do you use an adblocker?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>byrneseyeview</author><text>Banner ads pay my salary, so out of professional courtesy, no.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads. Plus, if I see something egregious on my employer&apos;s site, I can let them know.&lt;p&gt;I use Ghostery to see who&apos;s buying data from whom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dlikhten</author><text>My thought is: If you can&apos;t afford me blocking ads then do one of two things:&lt;p&gt;1) No flashing ads. No flash ads (cpu time is mine!) No ads that blur content with ads. And I will turn off ad blocking on your site. If ads have sound and I can&apos;t block it I will never visit the site. This is why arstechnica has ads turned off for me, autoplaying video and sound.&lt;p&gt;BTW I will not turn off blocking of the +1 button or Like or whatever. I just don&apos;t wanna be tracked.&lt;p&gt;2) Don&apos;t give free content. Make me pay for it. If I like it I would.</text></comment>
<story><title>Poll: Do you use an adblocker?</title><text>Do you use an adblocker?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>byrneseyeview</author><text>Banner ads pay my salary, so out of professional courtesy, no.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads. Plus, if I see something egregious on my employer&apos;s site, I can let them know.&lt;p&gt;I use Ghostery to see who&apos;s buying data from whom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maggit</author><text>&amp;#62; It&apos;s very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads.&lt;p&gt;So you &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; block ads, only with your brain ;) Fair enough, but can I ask why this is more courteous than blocking them in the browser? Are ad loads generally causing money to flow? I was under the impression that click-throughs cause revenue, rather than ad loads?</text></comment>