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Let's ALL block internet ads together!

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Let's ALL block internet ads together!
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RE: Let's ALL block internet ads together!
April 23, 2015 at 3:39 pm
I can't stand the ads, if i am trying to read a page I don't want ads getting in the way and distracting me. for the same reason I never watch live tv anymore, I record it and fast forward through the crap.
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RE: Let's ALL block internet ads together!
April 23, 2015 at 3:50 pm
You left out the option for those of us who don't care one tit one way or the other.
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RE: Let's ALL block internet ads together!
April 23, 2015 at 3:50 pm
(April 22, 2015 at 10:50 pm)Minimalist Wrote: AdBlock Plus with Firefox.
As Aractus said, uBlock is more memory efficient, but also AdBlock Plus has a whitelist which advertisers can pay to get on, so it's not exactly the best AdBlocker out there.
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RE: Let's ALL block internet ads together!
April 24, 2015 at 11:17 am (This post was last modified: April 24, 2015 at 11:20 am by Aractus.)
Google's Google Contributor just goes to show that Google is majorly out-of-touch with their consumers. For $10 per month you can see 25-50% less Google ads. For $2 per month you get only 5-15% less Google ads; and the ads that are removed are only replaced with other messages anyway, they're not removed from their page along with their occupied space. They really just don't get it.

Here's a pretty shocking picture:

[Image: 5373_Ad_revenue_Per_User_Google_Facebook...all_V2.jpg]

Apparently Google is getting USD $45 revenue per user per quarter. We're in 2015 now, it could even be higher. That's $180 per year that they get in revenue per user. And I suspect removing the "product search" feature in May 2012 and replacing it with only "sponsored links" has a lot to do with that. Do note that figure includes all Google's revenue, not just ads (but I'd assume it's mostly from ads).

Maximising revenue is all they care about. They have a monopoly.
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