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I am irritated with sites that won't let you navigate them if you have ad blocker on. Forbes, for instance.

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Dec 7 '16, 14:56

I'll accept that Forbes needs to run ads to maintain their free content. But when the ads that appear on their site are *SO* intrusive, and some of it borders on the trolling (I'm looking at you, Taboola ads!), can you blame me for using an ad blocker?

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Plus they (specifically) have served up malware in their ads in the past. That landing page is a joke. -- nm - spamlet Dec 7, 15:06
I may be misunderstanding it but if sites get paid by pageload then they're insisting they get paid even though I have no interest in the ad/product. - Max Dec 7, 15:00
They aren't interested in you as a user. -- nm - ty97 Dec 7, 14:58

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I am irritated with sites that won't let you navigate them if you have ad blocker on. Forbes, for instance.

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