I did it on Monkeytype, there is even toggle to disable ads if you don’t have adblocker, but i went for a sellout option.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      29·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, it is a safety tool.

      I could disable it for a site that doesn’t have anything to block, but then leaving it on has no downsides. Like I don’t really need it for lemmy when zero things are blocked, but why turn it off when there is always the possibility that an instance could be hacked?

  • Libb@jlai.lu
    42·
    3 months ago

    Nope. I simply refuse to watch ads.

    Either the website or their author will have provided the means to support them directly, or I won’t. And if they try forcing ads on me, I quit using their website.

    I’m fine with spending money to support content or services I appreciate. I refuse to waste a second of my life watching ads. That’s the reason why we have not owned a TV since the early 00s: my spouse and I realized we were screwed as, at least here in France, we were supposed to pay for watching TV but still would have to watch ads, more and more of them for that matter. So, gone the TV.

  • _haha_oh_wow_English
    24·
    3 months ago

    Once upon a time, long ago, I did it for reddit but they burnt that good will to the ground. Give a corporation an inch and they’ll take as many miles as they can before someone stops them: I block everything now and if it won’t load then I don’t bother with it. If it’s really important I’ll still find a way to view it but never again will I allow ads anywhere I can help it. Advertisements are a very serious threat to security and privacy. Malware and scams are routine in ads, even ads from known corporations that are supposedly safe, like Google.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    Not for a well made one, but one I made.

    I was testing some shitty PHP code and turned off adnausem just incase it was messing with my shitty PHP code. But I should have known my shitty PHP code was broken and it wasn’t adnausem.

  • Tazerface
    20·
    3 months ago

    If ads went back to a static image I would turn off my adblocker.

    But, most sites are just too annoying without an adblocker. If a site will not function with an adblocker I leave the site.

  • AstroGnomeical@mander.xyzEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Sites are rarely involved in picking what ads get displayed. I know there’s controls with your ad provider that let you say it’s a tech site or a cooking site and similar ads will be shown but that’s not enough control to stop somebody malicious. The FBI recommends ad blockers for safety, not because they find them annoying.

  • sasquash@sopuli.xyz
    8·
    3 months ago

    I disable it for very few sites. These sites provide nice and free niche content but don’t show any ads. I just disable so that the tracking works for sure, to motivate them continue running the site.

  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
    8·
    3 months ago

    Yes. It’s cryptii.com, a site containing tools for ciphering/deciphering (Caesar Cipher, ROT-13, Vigènere and so on). That’s because their ad, at the top right of the page, is so small that’s almost unnoticeable. No popup ads, no flashing ads, no crowded ad sections, just a single, small ad at the header. Sites like that (with static and small, non-intrusive ads) deserve to have ads allowed.

    • Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      3 months ago

      This is the way. But I won’t disable ublock when the website tells me to or breaks intentionally.