[PCWorld]

Post your comments for Would You Pay to Lose Online Ads? here

[coastie65]

Nope. I am not particularly bothered by those things, so I am not about to pay to not see them. If the ads help to keep my cost down, then so be it. There are times when something MAY catch my attention. The ad fees help to keep the user's cost down, without them, the revenue with have to come from somewhere. That somewhere will ultimately be the user. Nope, keep the Ads up and my cost down. coastie65

[haskins69]

No I wouldn't pay for add's to be gone but I would pay for the address of all spammers so I could go find and burn their offices to the ground

[lordmorgul]

Firefox AdblockPlus Greasemonkey/Stylish scripts.
I will not pay to remove ads I don't want to see, I just won't look at them... just like I wouldn't look at advertising in a newspaper I didn't want to see (I'd throw that page away).
Get a clue marketing people, advertisements are supposed to be interesting to people so that interest translates into increased sales. If they do not want to see them, that clearly means it is not interesting.
Whenever I see people discussing how to circumvent removal of ads online I /sigh. I have stopped using

[number6]

I block ads with Adblock Plus because it makes pages load faster and makes room for things that I actually want to see.
I wouldn't pay for a service, though.

[lordmorgul]

Stopped using... sites that force me to view advertising I wanted to remove (like those annoying ads you have to skip between pages).

[snorg]

I see no ads, adblock plus & NoScript

[coastie65]

Hey snorg, Where's your sense of "Fun on the Internet" ?

[coastie65]

Hey snorg, Where's your sense of "Fun on the Internet" ? :D

[snorg]

Fun on the web is NOT waiting 1/2 an hour for some pos shockwave flash to load b4 i can see the web page.
AND lottsa people have a bandwidth limit, if they go over it they havta pay more, ads take bandwidth, if you block ads you could see twice as much b4 you reach your bandwidth limit, so to say that viewing ads helps keep peoples costs down is Snorg snuff.

[Ataxim]

I have a huge list of ad servers in my hosts file, that's the best way to block them.

[coastie65]

OOPS, Forgot you had Dial Up. Carry on Sir snorg. coastie

[Flashorn]

If we don't have all the Ads on the sites that we visit

then, we couldn't see Snorg's Ts advertised .



FLASHORN. !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1!

[snorg]

Hey Flashorn !!
I aint got nothing to do with those moth eaten T shirts.

[Toulinwoek]

I'll be darned if I'm going to pay these sniveling twits NOT to annoy me; I just don't buy their stuff. If more folks would join me, they'd stop this mess. But as long as we consumers keep taking it, they are going to keep giving it. Figure it out for crying out loud!
In the meantime, I'll keep giving the ad-blocker creators something to do. Mind you though, I ain't paying them either! LOL

[snorg]

Ya Toulinwoek, its the same with privacy, if you want privacy you havta pay for it.

[Adama]

I used to have Ad Muncher, but it was really aggressive, and messed up a few things for me, so I just let the trial version run out. I decided against paying for Ad Muncher's subscription.

Now I have IE7 Pro, which is free and it does just a good a job as Ad Muncher at stopping/filtering obnoxious ads, so I'm happy with it.

[shanedr]

No, online ads are not the problem, in fact I like informative online ads. They let me know what is available. I do object to companies who permit pop-up ads on their sites. Spam is the real problem, only government can end that and so far they are still asleep on the issue.

[coastie65]

I'm not bothered by the online ads either, and have absolutely no problems with pop ups as I have a good pop up blocker in here. coastie65

[JimH443]

I also use the HOSTS file to block most ads. I couldn't tell you what percentage it blocks, cuz even when they're on the page I rarely notice them.
What this boils down to is... why would I want to pay to remove something I don't even see?