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<blockquote data-quote="DracusNarcrym" data-source="post: 476740" data-attributes="member: 43812">Personally, I believet that the concept behind ad-blockers should based not (as much) in the nuisance level of advertisements, rather in the potentially malicious content that can be transferred as part of the page elements, which also happen to contain advertisements.As long as the advertising in a domain is not intrusive and obstructing productive tasks (and obviously the advertised objects, such as services and products, are not in any way offensive) then it can actually be beneficial both towards the owner of the said domain (directly, by funding any activity of the company/organization/individual behind the website) and the users/customers (indirectly, by allowing the company owning the website to improve their products or services by utilizing the generated revenue).However, it is (unfortunately) rather common for advertisers to either deliberately or unintentionally deliver malicious content with their advertisements, ranging for malware downloads to vulnerability exploits, which can cause great harm to users of the website.The current functionality of so-called &quot;ad-blockers&quot; now involves not only advertisement blocking, but also malware and tracker blocking (in other words, ad-blockers are now multi-purpose security software). Thus, I believe that they should be properly called &quot;content blockers&quot; in general.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DracusNarcrym, post: 476740, member: 43812"] Personally, I believet that the concept behind ad-blockers should based not (as much) in the nuisance level of advertisements, rather in the potentially malicious content that can be transferred as part of the page elements, which also happen to contain advertisements. As long as the advertising in a domain is not intrusive and obstructing productive tasks (and obviously the advertised objects, such as services and products, are not in any way offensive) then it can actually be beneficial both towards the owner of the said domain (directly, by funding any activity of the company/organization/individual behind the website) [i]and[/i] the users/customers (indirectly, by allowing the company owning the website to improve their products or services by utilizing the generated revenue). However, it is (unfortunately) rather common for advertisers to either deliberately or unintentionally deliver malicious content with their advertisements, ranging for malware downloads to vulnerability exploits, which can cause great harm to users of the website. The current functionality of so-called "ad-blockers" now involves not only advertisement blocking, but also malware and tracker blocking (in other words, ad-blockers are now multi-purpose security software). Thus, I believe that they should be properly called "content blockers" in general. [/QUOTE]

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