Would you like to install to view silly adverts.

[ban-all-sheds]

Yeah, especially in the number of websites that stop working.

At which point you can decide whether you want to allow it to work by allowing a bunch of sites you know nothing about to run scripts on your system.

Photobucket, for instance, does not work for me, and no way will I ever let it.

I suspect this one would be fine, though

What's showing as blocked here are google-analytics.com, pagead2.googlesyndication.com and partner.googleadservices.com.

It still works.

 

[skotl]

meh

I don't have a problem with javascript and certainly can't be arsed white-listing or black-listing individual pages, scripts, or suchlikes. Adblock is granular enough for me.

Plus (and ironically, possibly?) I don't have an issue with tracking. My business and my hobbies make use of google tracking (amongst others) and I don't see the harm.
Except for sledge-hammer advertising, where I draw the line.

I would rather enable advertising for sites that I enjoy than have it thrust down my throat, to the extreme detriment of my browsing experience.

As I said earlier, it's the site hosts who must bear responsibility for the adverts that are shown; if they are unobtrusive* then I have no issue and will add the site to my adblock filter.

(*"unobtrusive" = no Flash, no Java, takes minimal screen real-estate, adds less than 500ms load-time to the page)

I know most of you don't live in Edinburgh, but check the local rag for obtrusive, slow, high-screen content advertising;
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/