I didn't really even care about ads until I noticed some sites I frequented (e.g. Wikia) were so bogged down by them that sometimes they'd cause my computer to hang and/or Chrome to crash. Only then did I go, "Enough is enough!" and block them. I mean, seriously, maybe the advertisers don't care or have a clue, but the sites should know, right? Don't the people running them look at them from time to time to see how they're running, or do all the site owners have monster rigs and fat connections and don't notice the ads are making their sites nigh-unusable for people with lesser hardware and connections? Is the ad money for the large, resource-sucking ads that much better and/or worth the diminished user experience?
I didn't really even care about ads until I noticed some sites I frequented (e.g. Wikia) were so bogged down by them that sometimes they'd cause my computer to hang and/or Chrome to crash. Only then did I go, "Enough is enough!" and block them. I mean, seriously, maybe the advertisers don't care or have a clue, but the sites should know, right? Don't the people running them look at them from time to time to see how they're running, or do all the site owners have monster rigs and fat connections and don't notice the ads are making their sites nigh-unusable for people with lesser hardware and connections? Is the ad money for the large, resource-sucking ads that much better and/or worth the diminished user experience?