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Thank you so much.

Chiron: how many people re-elect a politician over and over after he spent so many years proving himself a perfect idiot? How many believe firmly in homeopathy, chromotherapy and omniscience of television? How many are proud of their 2,377,935 true friends on facebook?
I’m afraid the answer to your question is yes, they would all merrily buy a Frimzy-Kramzy without wondering what it is or what it does, just because an ad told them to.
Take it easy and learn to live with it: a major share of our fellow humans use that fatty mass between their ears mostly to keep their hypophysis warm :-(

What you say makes a lot of sense, yet you’re replying to another question, maybe something like “why must ads be there?”.

Mine was “why the hell do ads have such an enormous weight on today’s economy?” – or, slightly rephrased, “are there really so many gullible simpletons in this world ready to fall for the fibs of undignified peddlers, that it pays off disposing with one’s dignity and being one?”.

Linda, it doesn’t have its own website so depending on your browser you need to go to the browser store/ add-ons page. If you go to this page: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock and scroll down to “Installation” it gives you further instructions on where to go per browser. Hope that helps!

Ads are to me the answer to a free internet. As nothing is free in the world, a free internet needs revenues and ads provide for the income. This being said there is a difference in my opinion in “non intrusive ads” as offered by AdBlockPlus and completely erasing advertising. When you go shopping in your favorite supermarket there are also lots of ads and bargains. Do you stop at each of them or only when shopping for bargains or when the products are familiar to you? In analogy to the aforementioned. Ads on internet without a blocker is like walking in your supermarket and having all kind of flags popping out of the display as you progress along the aisle. You would surely run out of that place and ban it from your shopping possibilities wouldn’t you? Emsisoft combined with an Add blocker is a good combination for a safe and fair surfing. I use Firefox+Emsisoft+AdBlockPLus with non intrusive ads allowed.

PS. Just read Zigan’s answer here-under. His approach is not for everyone as you have to be willing to block ads manually and for each site it seems. But he is probably right there!

Graphics Interchange Format GIF, and not gift. Whoops! not that it matters but I just had to correct myself.