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Tangential: I've blocked pretty well all dedicated ad providers. It's very easy and enough people are doing it now that you can see the result - small ads are starting to be hosted on the same domain as the site itself. Small and static. I can tolerate that. I'm ok with it.

This site there's an ad for a book on leadership, a flickering animated "look at me!" advert. Not OK at all. Now I will take the time to look into how to block these site-hosted ads, animated or not. You advertising gits are simply unable to learn, you're too greedy.

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@anewvillager, @pmiller2 thanks both, I'll look into those. I'm curious how unless they have a very large list (or bloom filter perhaps) of individual URLs. Anyway I'll find out.

@notechback, your point is quite valid but please note I have no problem with "reasonable" ads, I stated as such, only ones that are IMO excessive. And that most definitely includes animated. How the web is funded is a very good question but money-driven fuck-you rent seeking intermediaries who don't know when to stop is not, IMO, the answer. BTW the ad was not associated with the content.

I don't see this ad. But honestly you come across as rather entitled if you think the web should conform exactly to your preferehnces. The web and millions of people working on it are paid through ads. Many of the sites you use would not exist without ads.

Ads that are on the site and relevant to the content should not really offend anyone. Intense tracking is something else and should be downright illegal. But ads are part of what pays many things today - and in reality can also be a useful venue for promoting relevant and good products that otherwise no one would know.

I prefer ads any day over "content marketing", paid articles, paywalls or simply no content being available.

The internet existed before ads, too. This website we're on now has no ads.

Advertising is not the inevitable endgame of any particular forum. It's only there because we accept it. If I go to my public library and ask if I can put up a flier, they say "Are you a local non-profit? Then you can post it on the bulletin board in the back corner." Just because they can run ads doesn't mean they must.

It'd be great if the people who want an ad-laden web could have their side, and the people who want a free volunteer web could have their side. There was a time when I might have thought that .com/.org could do this, but clearly that distinction is long gone.

I don't see any ads as well. Make sure to enable more comprehensive lists on uBlock Origin.

On mobile, no ads either - using only adaway as a hosts level blocker

Upvoted for sentiment, but I don't see any ads on the site. I'm using a combination of uBlock origin and Ghostery.

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