This pisses me off soooo fucking much.
"We're sowwy but we'll have to ask you to turn off your pretty little adblocker! We can't keep making money off of you by showing you stuff you don't want to see if you don't turn off your adblocker! But it's okay, who doesn't use an adblocker? Just turn it off for our site pleeeease"

Quit it with the quasi-friendly bullshit. If it's okay, why don't you fuck off and let me block whatever I want to block? It's ridiculous how many hoops I have to jump through just so I don't have to see ads on the internet. Even pi-hole doesn't help with this anymore. Now I need an Ad Blocker Blocker Blocker just so I don't have to wade through heaps of obnoxious ads every time I visit a page. It's so goddamn stupid.

I’m fine with it. But that’s probably cause I work in the industry. Software ain’t free dude. No need to rant about ads. If you’re just a consumer, then go ahead. But you’re an engineer, you should know better!

Then don’t use their site. Easy enough.

@growling I figured someone would say that. My reply is, if I think it's worth my money or if I use it a lot, I will donate at some point. If it's a company like Facebook, they really don't need that advertising revenue. If it's an individual or a small company, and I like what they do, I'll either buy whatever they're offering (a product/service) or I'll donate via PayPal/whatever.

Yes, software ain't free. That's why a lot of software is paid. There are other methods of monetisation than flooding users with ads.

@GMR516 That's why I immediately hit the back button. Kinda hard though when every other website uses this script now.

@thealex *at market*
Hey I will take them free. If I like them I will donate some money sometime.

I understand nobody like adds. You can simply not use that website or atleast add them to whitelist to see if they have some acceptable adds. IMO donating via paypal to a service or product is not an option.

@thealex Yeah it sucks that we have to flood users with ads. But we have to.. it’s the way we can make a living for our families. Or to simply pay for the costs of servers, etc. Think about how many people disregard software! It takes a lot of work to even craft something sustainable. And let’s not talk about maintainability!

But even something small as disabling ad blockers can help these people who are providing services along with servers and development and maintenance time, for free. It doesn’t hurt.

@hack Yes. If you're offering something for free, I'll take it for free, and if I like it I'll give you some money for you to continue working on it. I don't see anything wrong with that.

@growling I get that. Honestly, often it's not the creator's fault. The advertisers make requests about the number of ads that they have to show, in what way, etc.

Just to be clear, I don't hate advertisements per se, but I hate the way they're displayed -- that's what really annoys me, and that's why I block them on most sites, except for those that have unobtrusive ads. I don't want to see e.g. unskippable video ads, popup windows, and gifs/autoplaying videos in the margins of the page. And I'm pissed because now I don't get a choice, other than leaving the page entirely.

What if we didn't remove the stuff from Dom but with some source hacking we made js think the object is there but just not there for the user?

My method of dealing with it: disable adblock, refresh, get the data you want, reenable adblock

I wouldn't mind self-hosted banner ads. What I do mind is websites pulling in third party content from potentially hacked ad servers (attractive targets!), plus all the tracking shit. That's why I don't disable my adblocker if a website is nagging for that - I just close the tab.