Ads banned on the internet

[Olivia]

How do you think the internet would change if all advertising was banned on the internet?

 

[MrDawn]

That would be an issue for the advertisement companies

 

[DrLeftover]

Websites that rely on the income from advertising, such as many news and weather sites, video streaming services, not to mention private sites like some forums, would vanish quickly.

 

[MrDawn]

Websites that rely on the income from advertising, such as many news and weather sites, video streaming services, not to mention private sites like some forums, would vanish quickly.

Do people, such as myself, who use adblockers hurt those websites?

 

[DrLeftover]

Do people, such as myself, who use adblockers hurt those websites?

Some.

But you may have noticed, as I have, that some sites now refuse to work unless you let all that crap through.

Evidently their web designers, and their financial lords and masters, don't realize that there are seventeen other sites with exactly the same content that will work just fine with https://adblockplus.org/ running.

 

[Mike30]

Do people, such as myself, who use adblockers hurt those websites?

It does.

Banning advertising from internet would mean the end of free information for all. So, it would affect us all.
I know there are websites that simple abuse and load just too much ads. You got 2 options. You block the ads or you don't visit the site anymore.
I don't use ad-blockers, I just stop using those websites.