vannilla wrote:If web ads weren't filled with heavy scripts doing all kind of garbage, purposedly designed to be misleading, possibly play an annoying audio without providing a mute button, and probably have some other properties I didn't think of, ad blockers wouldn't be necessary.
Couldn't agree more. I allow ads on some sites such as PaleMoon's site and GHacks because they use small and sensible ads. Then I've visited others that have pleaded with me to disable my ad-blocker, I've tried it with the ad-blocker disabled and watched as the site takes ages to load, hundreds of calls to numerous other servers, jerky scrolling due to the amount of scripting on the site, content jumping around as ads load in the middle of the article, auto-playing videos with sound, Javascript popups, etc. etc. In these cases, the ad-blocker goes back on and the pleading message is dismissed.
In short, make your website perform like crap and I'll disable ads to make the site usable (more than anything else).
Claiming however that this is copyright infringement is similar to claiming that I'm infringing copyright by taking a song I've bought and applying ReplayGain to it (because I'm changing the MP3), or claiming copyright infringement if I scribble notes in one of my cookery books. It's ludicrous!