I accidentally fell into adblock when my more computer savvy friend installed Ghostery on my computer after I got a malicious plugin installed. I've started whitelisting sites, but there are two that somewhat pain me not to unblock because I like the content producers, but I can't actually watch the fucking things properly without doing it: The Escapist and Twitch.
The site skins on The Escapist are incredibly annoying when attempting to navigate. I've accidently clicked on them dozens of times and found my way into a random site I didn't want to see. Combined with the "scroll over for sound" ads and that goddamned banner ad that moves with you on the bottom of the screen but sometimes gets caught in the middle and blocks everything till you close it, it's just infinitely easier to just run it on the site. Add to it that videos fail to load somewhat frequently, but the ads load no matter what. So on occasion I'll find myself watching an ad 3-4 times to get the video to run properly. This hasn't happened much lately, but it was a pain when it did.
The same thing happened with Twitch.tv: the ads would often break the stream and make me reload, watch another ad, then maybe get back to the stream I was watching. Add to it the fact that Twitch has been running into a ton of stream lag issues for no reason lately and it makes it virtually impossible to watch content I want to watch without adblock running.
That said, I realize how important it is and have whitelisted Youtube, Teamliquid, and other sites that I frequent to attempt to show my support. But if the ads prevent me from watching what I want to watch, it's a safe bet adblock is coming on.
The site skins on The Escapist are incredibly annoying when attempting to navigate. I've accidently clicked on them dozens of times and found my way into a random site I didn't want to see. Combined with the "scroll over for sound" ads and that goddamned banner ad that moves with you on the bottom of the screen but sometimes gets caught in the middle and blocks everything till you close it, it's just infinitely easier to just run it on the site. Add to it that videos fail to load somewhat frequently, but the ads load no matter what. So on occasion I'll find myself watching an ad 3-4 times to get the video to run properly. This hasn't happened much lately, but it was a pain when it did.
The same thing happened with Twitch.tv: the ads would often break the stream and make me reload, watch another ad, then maybe get back to the stream I was watching. Add to it the fact that Twitch has been running into a ton of stream lag issues for no reason lately and it makes it virtually impossible to watch content I want to watch without adblock running.
That said, I realize how important it is and have whitelisted Youtube, Teamliquid, and other sites that I frequent to attempt to show my support. But if the ads prevent me from watching what I want to watch, it's a safe bet adblock is coming on.