> It's only a very small proportion of people who like to block adverts and leech pages.
If you want to talk about leeching, why not address the issue of massive flash and image based adverts that suck-up the bandwidth of those on limited/capped connections? Is that not leeching?
Yes it is, but to tar every website with the same brush is not very nice IMHO.
You are assuming that all websites are going to waste your bandwidth, show you irritating adverts, and piss you off.
I think it'd be a nicer world if you assumed websites were going to be nice and useful. If a website does have bandwidth wasting ads, just don't use that website.
And you are tarring every person who blocks adverts under the same brush - as a leecher.
You are assuming that those who block adverts by default don't contribute to websites in ways that more than makes up for the blocking of adverts - they're "stealing", don't forget.
I've been using the Internet for approximately 8 years. I have never seen a 'nice and useful' advertisement (and yes, I'm including the time before I started using ad-block plugins).
Given that about 14 hours of my average day is spent on the Internet - because I work with it, not because I have no social life... well, maybe that too - a hell of a lot of websites.
And how would I know if one of the adverts were what I was looking for, if I don't click them? I find the organic results always meet the criteria I've searched for.
TBH this is getting into a I do this/you do that debate on personal circumstance - not why I entered the discussion. I don't see the point in going 'round in circles all evening. I think we've made it pretty clear where we both stand on the subject.
If you want to talk about leeching, why not address the issue of massive flash and image based adverts that suck-up the bandwidth of those on limited/capped connections? Is that not leeching?