[Klaus]

Late to the thread... I will state I do use adblock (abp + ghostery combo) as standard on my personal computers, but on my work ones ads get through. If I load the front page on my work laptop (can't remember exact CPU, it is a dual core Broadwell with HT) with all ads showing I hear the fan spin up and CPU usage goes to 30%. Close the page, it goes away. So I'm in the group "I'm not against advertising, but I'm against intrusive advertising", and my threshold of what counts as intrusive might vary from others.

 

Honestly, I just can't imagine myself in the role of TV presenter ... 

Even if I considered this - I would have minimum quality requirement and a creating quality TV review requires SOME efforts in excess of the time required for the reviews alone.

 

Of course, ads consume bandwidth and load on your systems. However, coming back to the core of all this - PZ is, just like all the other content sites, not a free service. That is a misconception. The ads and all their related costs (bandwidth, power consumption and, yes, also the annoyance) are the price tag. It's an implicit price tag but nonetheless a price tag.

Regardless of the reasons behind all this, the ad blocker battles are part of a "war" that cannot be won by either side because most of the relevant sites will either have a paywall (which is what no publisher wants) or are gone forever. At the end of the day, ad blockers are a lose-lose technology. Of course, it is completely senseless for me to argue here - I am well aware of this. I've even received messages about this topic which are way, way beyond hostile.