Ads: Do you Report Bad Ads?

[Ink]

The majority of web users dislike seeing Ads and will use an AdBlocker or Content Blocker to hide unwanted content.

But how many MT members user use a custom whitelist or no Ad blocking to make a judgement about a Good vs Bad Ad?

In the Poll please vote which suits your view best, if you vote Other say why you chose that option.

 

[Andytay70]

I use an ad blocker.
No point in reporting ads as i feel nothing gets done about them!

 

[Aura]

No - I use an Ad / Content Blocker

Not going to expose myself to EK/malvertising just to do a good action.

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

I use ublock Origin

 

[Cohen]

I use an adblocker. If I feel a site deserves it and I trust it, I whitelist the site. However, if I see any ads that are intrusive or bad in any way, I remove the whitelist and refuse to whitelist it again.

 

[vgchat]

I use an ablocker as well and I pretty much agree with Cohen when it comes to whitelisting sites. Sites that try to get around it & say.... "your using an ablocker blah blah blah" or "subscribe/upgrade your account now to remove ads", I usually do not whitelist.

I don't tend to report ads.

 

[Overkill]

I use UBO and a custom Hosts file to block ads

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

AdGuard Desktop, so there is nothing to report

 

[DJ Panda]

Yes - If I find the Ad to be misleading, unsuitable or potentially unsafe

Personally I find the chance from getting infected via malvertising be low where I am IMO. No sense trying as I don't use an adblocker.

 

[frogboy]

Thanks to uBlock Origin i do not see any ads.

 

[Vanduss]

I gave up on trying to see ads, its painful. Im thankful for ublock origin

 

[jamescv7]

No since I use the adblocker instead.

I let those other people to be observant and report if they think offense or contains malicious content.

Let's be practical; we want an issue free when browsing so an adblocker is present.

 

[uncle bill]

Yes always and not only ads, to shallalist.

 

[Soulbound]

Adblock on all systems, so see no reason to enable adds on any website. truth to be told, majority of sites are cluttered with ads or pop up adds.

rather have a clean looking site than a cluttered site, despite majority of sites I visit hardly have any ads, since those are specific sites for a couple of games, which range from fansites to official forums and reddit.

 

[jerzy601]

I use uBlock Origin of quite a long time and so far I have no problems with persistent advertising.

 

[Ink]

Yes - If I find the Ad to be misleading, unsuitable or potentially unsafe

Personally I find the chance from getting infected via malvertising be low where I am IMO. No sense trying as I don't use an adblocker.

On Android I report bad Ads, because it's a non-rooted device. I find the 360 Mobile Security Ads to be misleading.

News sites have Sponsored and Audio/Video Ads, which I have AdBlocker enabled for those. Other sites that are well designed with a few Clean Ads.

 

[Valeriy]

I use the program Adguard quite a long time and still I have no problem with persistent advertising.

 

[Parks]

I dont report them i just block them with uBlock. When it comes to Twitch i normally watch the streams in vlc with livestreamer as with a adblocker alot of pages dont load for me i sometimes do the same with Youtube.