Reply to post: Re: It isn't just the ads

Ad-blocking ‘plateaus’, claims hopeful ad industry

Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
FAIL

Re: It isn't just the ads

I visited one site in the USA a few months back.

It wanted to load 67, yes sixty seven bits of javascript from other sites.

I found this by firing up a VM and using an OOTB IE 9. Well, I was using my laptop in a Starbucks. The VM is one that I overwrite after use with a clean version.

It took almost 5 minutes to load and I was in the middle of Portland, OR.

I have to wonder if the owners of the site are happy with all that ad revenue and tracking cookies (24 of them) that get deposited on your system. One had an expiry of 01-Jan-3033. WTF?

I wonder how many people just give up and go somewhere else with sites like that? Probably loads so they lose revenue so they add more ads etc etc

The increase of advertising will soon make the internet unusable without adblocking.

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