If your adverts weren't intrusive, i wouldnt need a bloody ad blocker!!

[Alabama3]

sick of websites with their in your face advertising - yes i get that they need to have adverts, but seriously if your site has to get funding by bloody great adverts, then its a shit site

yes - i have ad blockers, and yes i can still see bloody dancing rabbits on this site!

Exactly. They shouldn't be allowed to have more than a little banner somewhere on the page.

YABU DD(4) Adores the dancing rabbits particularly the 'nuddy bum' one

still got the stupid sponsored pages though (in the other pic) and fuck off with your trying to guilt me

i'm not really anti the rabbits - but dont tell anyone i have a reputation to uphold

I have two ad blockers installed and the dancing rabbits are still there.

I find the dancing rabbits really irritating!

I've blocked the rabbits separately.

I don't see the dancing rabbits!

I have an ad blocker. Sites that remind me, just make me switch off. Lately, I am seeing sites that say 'We've noticed you've got an ad blocker installed' and I have to click on 'I don't care' which is strangely satisfying.

OMG, this^

Advertisers take note, a subtle ad at the side of the page, fine. Hell, I might even read it. Half the page blocked with a huge banner that I can’t get rid of, FUCK OFF! If they were advertising free money I’d still freaking ignore it on principle.

So how do you propose that news sites make money without adverts or sponsors? Would you pay a subscription?

subtle adverts - not bloody great big take over the page make you click on it to get rid of them taking hours to load shit adverts

thats how

they still show the bloody sponsored shite at the bottom

Well websites have to make money to pay the people that make the content. If the ad is too unobtrusive, it doesn't function well as an ad.
It seems fair enough to me.
I would rather be annoyed by an advert then have to pay a subscription to every website I visit.

No ads on the app.

Whenever I use the desktop or mobile site I realise how annoying the ads are.

Sorry. What a lie.

So small and unmoving I don't notice them!

I deliberately ignore these ads and if I do need what they're selling I go to a competitor.

I won't be seeing the rabbit film.

I use an adblocker and also run websites, hate the scammy ads that seem to be at the bottom of every website now and hate sites that don’t let you on unless you turn off adblocker, I just close the site rather then turn off.
Plenty of ways to make money without half a page of bargain basement spam ads.

I play free postcode lottery which uses the revenue from ads to pay the winners (not that I've ever won) but even their ads don't take up an entire page (once or twice I've seen them and I check every day)

I deliberately ignore these ads and if I do need what they're selling I go to a competitor. grin
me too - I will not use any firm with annoying adverts (yes you mr faux opera man)
I won't be seeing the rabbit film.
is it a film its advertising? i didnt realise that - i think i knew somewhere in the back of my mind, but....