Is it just me or did all of AnandTech's advertising go away?

[DietDrThunder]

I don't have any ad blockers installed that I am aware of. If the advertising goes away, does AnandTech go away?

 

[Crono]

If it did it's because their are trying to track down bad ads (see technical forums). I doubt it's permanent without some other monetization model.

 

[Red Storm]

I believed you for a second, then checked in incognito. The horror...

Seriously WTF is that mess?! Adblock for LIFE!

 

[BudAshes]

Yeah I had to re-enable the ad block here as every time I clicked on the site I would accidentally click on a costco ad.

 

[zinfamous]

OH the horror...does it really look like that?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I believed you for a second, then checked in incognito. The horror...

Seriously WTF is that mess?! Adblock for LIFE!

How do people browse the internet without adblock? That looks like it's from Idiocracy.

 

[bshole]

How do people browse the internet without adblock? That looks like it's from Idiocracy.

Some news sites are now requiring you to disable ad blocking to view their content or (gasp) actually pay for it.

 

[shortylickens]

My problem is most of the ads are for shit I have NO interest in. If they had more games and hardware and gadgets I'd probably click once in a while.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Some news sites are now requiring to you disable ad blocking to view their content or (gasp) actually pay for it.

Yeah that's why I get my news from P&N or news aggregation sites (slashdot). F advert walls, I'll pay for your service if you're worth it.

 

[bshole]

Yeah that's why I get my news from P&N or news aggregation sites (slashdot). F advert walls, I'll pay for your service if you're worth it.

TBH, I do feel like I am doing something immoral when I view all of that news for free without paying for it any way. This model cannot work in the long term for those creating news content and we are most likely wrong for not paying for it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Some news sites are now requiring you to disable ad blocking to view their content or (gasp) actually pay for it.

I'd rather they mine coins while on their web site, than actually take MY time and visual space, and show me ads. I can always buy faster PCs and video cards. But I can't get back the time I wasted looking at ads.
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[[DHT]Osiris]

TBH, I do a feel like I am doing something immoral when I view all of that news for free without paying for it any way. This model cannot work in the long term for those creating news content and we are most likely wrong for not paying for it.

Considering the quality of most of the new sources, I feel I'm paying for the quality I'm getting. When *I* have to do research to figure out the truth of a press release, I'm doing their job for them.

 

[Red Storm]

TBH, I do a feel like I am doing something immoral when I view all of that news for free without paying for it any way. This model cannot work in the long term for those creating news content and we are most likely wrong for not paying for it.

It's their job to come up with ways to sustain their business. If a site is pushing shitty ads that take up the whole page or annoying pop ups, they shouldn't be surprised if people find ways around that. If nobody wants to pay to look at a site, that means that site's content is not worth it.

 

[FeuerFrei]

AT must have done some bad, bad things if no one is willing to advertise here.

That screen cap above is horribad. Not the AnandTech I know. I guess I forgot this place is merely another ShopSavvy site now. *gag*
Adblock reports 13 ads blocked, when loading front page.

This is why I tend to go image-blind. Ignore any images, focus only on text. Anything moving gets extra-ignored. Sure the human eye is attracted to movement, but when on the web you can train yourself to ignore movement, believe me.

 

[Thebobo]

btw is that a good deal on the acer laptop?

 

[tynopik]

I don't have any ad blockers installed that I am aware of

^---- points and laughs
HAHAHAHA

 

[Sonikku]

Is it just me or did all of AnandTech's advertising go away?

It's not just you. I too noticed all of Anandtech's advertising going away.

After I installed ad block.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I believed you for a second, then checked in incognito. The horror...

Seriously WTF is that mess?! Adblock for LIFE!

Holy crap! That his hilariously horrible.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Some news sites are now requiring you to disable ad blocking to view their content or (gasp) actually pay for it.

I avoid those sites. Forbes is dead to me, for example. I'm not disabling anything. Most ads now days are also malware and try to load crap into your PC. Their only goal is to spy on you, that seems to be the big thing now days everything is designed for mass surveillance and ads are a good vehicle to load that kind of stuff on your machine. Heck even with all the adblock tools it seems they still have ways to track you. i sometimes find myself on a browser that has no ad block (ex: a newly setup VM, or another machine etc) and I'll see ads that are frighteningly relevant.

 

[ImpulsE69]

If I can't block ads, I won't visit. For every news site, there's 20 others reporting the same thing, and if it ever comes to there's not any, I'm not going to be heartbroken.

 

[Newbian]

Some news sites are now requiring you to disable ad blocking to view their content or (gasp) actually pay for it.

Use something like noscript to prevent the script from blocking you for using adblock.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Use something like noscript to prevent the script from blocking you for using adblock.

Then the page won't even load. News sites are ridiculous with how much freaking JS they use, and like 50 different domains. Makes no sense. Text, pictures and MAYBE a video, should not require that much freaking code.

 

[Ken g6]

Then the page won't even load. News sites are ridiculous with how much freaking JS they use, and like 50 different domains. Makes no sense. Text, pictures and MAYBE a video, should not require that much freaking code.

Then I add some CSS with a user style to show at least the text. That works on almost every site except Forbes. I don't read Forbes anymore.

 

[Ns1]

I don't think anyone on this site reads Forbes anymore.

 

[Ryan Smith]

All of our advertising should be fine right now. The ad department may have been working on things earlier in their search for the source of the recent malvertising attack.

But thank you for the heads up all the same.