3. Are quite tired of highly intrusive, epileptic-seizure-inducing flash ads (some of them with audio).
4. Security reasons ( I personally use Noscript which has the side-effect of blocking ads)
5. Simply refuse to accept tracking cookies.
I wouldn't mind viewing unobtrusive text or image ads without tracking cookies (eg: StackOverflow) but very few websites actually implement those. I asked the owner of Phoronix.com about this a while back (who also seems to be having issues with the financial side of things)- Basically unobtrusive ads have much lower value than the obtrusive ones.
1. We want to speed up web-browsing experience.
2. Save internet bandwidth.
3. Are quite tired of highly intrusive, epileptic-seizure-inducing flash ads (some of them with audio).
4. Security reasons ( I personally use Noscript which has the side-effect of blocking ads)
5. Simply refuse to accept tracking cookies.
I wouldn't mind viewing unobtrusive text or image ads without tracking cookies (eg: StackOverflow) but very few websites actually implement those. I asked the owner of Phoronix.com about this a while back (who also seems to be having issues with the financial side of things)- Basically unobtrusive ads have much lower value than the obtrusive ones.