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Renegade:
^I've pretty much given up granting the benefit of doubt to websites any more. My script and ad blockers are switched on and remain on. Later, if I decide I like the site and I am being treated with a modicum respect by it, I will then (and only then) disable blocking on it. There was a time when I would only block as needed. Now I do the opposite - block by default and unblock only where justified. Sad really. But I have limited patience with most of the nonsense up on the web.

So it goes. :-\
-40hz (June 16, 2014, 09:15 AM)
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You and StoicJoker are far more tolerant than I am. My default for a while now has been to block everything.

I even block on sites that I really and truly appreciate - they use Google services. Sorry, but that doesn't fly. I am not interested in being tracked and I do believe that the tracking companies, e.g. Google, are acting in good faith with their EULAs.

Trying to filter in the good stuff is simply too much of a burden now. I can't be bothered anymore.

For years and years I didn't filter anything out. I didn't use ad blockers or anything. I figured I'd play fair, etc. etc.

However...

I was on the phone with a client when I managed it inadvertently touch off one of these things and it starts playing the Orbits gum commercial (yeah the one that sounds like a freakin porno) in a window I wasn't even viewing. I'm on speakerphone and the PC speaker is sitting right behind the phone ... So there is no deniability to be had. And I can't find the %&^$# thing to kill it. Fortunately the client had a sense of humor.
-Stoic Joker (June 10, 2014, 10:00 PM)
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Same basic deal - one too many sites blaring deafening audio unexpectedly.

My sense of humour there turned into something along the lines of throwing out the bath water then crucifying the baby upside down in a flaming acid bath while chanting dark verses to raise Great Old Ones and laughing maniacally. Because blaring audio at 2 AM when everyone else is asleep is about as funny.

I may stop blocking at some point in the future. And I will likely now (in light of the above posts) unblock a few more things for a few more sites... but not much.

wraith808:
The only ones I tend not to block now are the ones that use that Project Wonderful.  And I'm on the verge of blocking even them.  With Patreon up and running, I've been able to contribute to the sites that use that without accepting ads.  I'd rather give them a couple bucks a month and get rid of all ads.

TaoPhoenix:
You and StoicJoker are far more tolerant than I am. My default for a while now has been to block everything.
-Renegade (June 16, 2014, 08:12 PM)
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This was one of my original points Renny. I have AdBlock on permanently, but these random things show up anyway. I have a "JS-Nuke" button on my browser that I can toggle, but then part of the time the page doesn't even load because some dev decided to make the content script driven.

I was saying I don't bother with things like NoScript and specific site prefs because I will only view something like the Kansas Star three times based on a Slashdot article. I have no energy to try to make a custom profile out of that. And even if I wanted to, I don't know how to allow the script that loads the page, but disallow the timed one that slides over and screams HEY RENNY! YOU'RE MY HERO! YOU'RE A MINOR DEITY! NOW READ THIS NEW ARTICLE YOU DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD!!

TaoPhoenix:
I just hit another one.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2099424-what-the-internet-looked-like-the-year-tim-duncan-won-his-first-title-1999

It's ping.chartbeat.net and edge.simplereach.com

And here is your example of a Slider.

40hz:
I'd rather give them a couple bucks a month and get rid of all ads.
-wraith808 (June 16, 2014, 09:27 PM)
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Amen!

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