I did it on Monkeytype, there is even toggle to disable ads if you don’t have adblocker, but i went for a sellout option.

  • LCP
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    DuckDuckGo

    I’m ok with static ads. Targeted advertising gets a block from me.

  • slazer2au
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    08 months ago

    Not for a well made one, but one I made.

    I was testing some shitty PHP code and turned off adnausem just incase it was messing with my shitty PHP code. But I should have known my shitty PHP code was broken and it wasn’t adnausem.

  • WorseDoughnut 🍩
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    08 months ago

    I always end up disabling it on banking and .gov websites, just because I’ve run into issues where uBlock has broken those kinds of poorly made websites pretty often.

  • pruwyben
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    08 months ago

    I do for creators I want to support. But I’ll turn it back on right away if they’re too annoying or sketchy.

  • Libb
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    Nope. I simply refuse to watch ads.

    Either the website or their author will have provided the means to support them directly, or I won’t. And if they try forcing ads on me, I quit using their website.

    I’m fine with spending money to support content or services I appreciate. I refuse to waste a second of my life watching ads. That’s the reason why we have not owned a TV since the early 00s: my spouse and I realized we were screwed as, at least here in France, we were supposed to pay for watching TV but still would have to watch ads, more and more of them for that matter. So, gone the TV.

  • @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    08 months ago

    There are a few car specific forums still running vBulletin that I pop the blocker off for. E.g, cb7tuner.com. They use unobtrusive banners on the top and bottom of the page and I do want to support them. Those are the only exceptions though.

  • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    08 months ago

    I disable on 2 of my local news sites because they need every penny, but not on local news sites owned by major publishers.

  • @AstroGnomeical@mander.xyz
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    08 months ago

    Sites are rarely involved in picking what ads get displayed. I know there’s controls with your ad provider that let you say it’s a tech site or a cooking site and similar ads will be shown but that’s not enough control to stop somebody malicious. The FBI recommends ad blockers for safety, not because they find them annoying.