If you use a program like netlimiter, you will see that if you load a ad filled web page, with adblock disabled, the page will usually be around 1-3MB in size but with adblock enabled, (if you clear the cache and reload the page, it only takes about 100-300KB) almost 80-90% of th page file size is ads, this is annoying for the broadband users and painful for the dialup users

most ads are hosted by the 3rd party ad server so it has no effect on the site owner so the site owner doesnt care about the file size of the ads, but for the end user who actually goes on the web page, it is wasting their bandwidth and if the user has a monthly bandwidth cap them it is really hard on them

also what kind of idiot do you think we are to actually believe that we will get a free a $5000 computer is we can click the button 5 times in a row?

also, many of us spend all day on our computers, (I personally spend a lot of time coding and doing graphic design) do you think were really interested in boosting our lovelife because we are no longer able to get hard?

if you have a site and your not getting the ad revenue you want then at least look at the ads on your page and ask your self, who in their right mind would actually want this, not many people are quick to buy random pills from a company located in the basement of a rundown hut in Zimbabwe or any other random place

no one wants free screensavers from a place named doubleclick or adserv or gator

if you want people to not block your ads then put ads that are actually useful

if you look at real tech sites, you will see that the ads are usually not blocked by adblock (i run my own adblock filter http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2241e/tips/id1.html and i don’t even block them), on sites like tomshardware, they have ads, about half of them are blocked and the other half is left alone as there useful, when they review new computer hardware, the ads are clean and direct to the point, they list the top sites (amazon, newegg etc) and list their prices for the product) while their other ads advertising random crap like coffee, they get blocked because what does coffee have to do with ddr3 memory support in new motherboards?

from a annoying ad filled site owners point of view, adblock blocks all their ads and they cant get av revenue from them anymore

when in reality, adblock only blocks the stupid ads

it is like the spam filter in everyones e-mail account, real e-mails go through and junk and other crap like that

spam is illegal if it was up to me, annoying ads in webpages would also be illegal, ad filled webpages will generally crash the web browser on many mobile devices thats like attacking mobile device users

to everyone who has ads on their website, go and look at the ads on your page, and check if they have anything to do with the content of your page. (in other words, if your writing a review on new heatsinks, don’t show me a ad for heartburn medicine, show a ad for the lowest price for the heatsink out of all the trusted big sites like amazon and newegg)

And personally, if the ads on a web page are excessive, annoying, or disruptive, I usually don’t go back to the site. Ever. Truly, if you want to piss me off put one of those damned in-page pop up ads directly in front of what I’m trying to read and don’t give me any other way to close it except clicking on the ad. Nope, not playing that game either.

Shut the fuck up.

Adverts are rarely hosted on their publisher’s resources, so in reality they don’t contribute to the bandwidth usage - they are simply there to recoup the costs of the resources used to view standard pages.

Generally speaking, I bet Digg (and other tech site) users have a high percentage of adblock usage, and as a result, the stats may not reflect the true number of non-clicks since the Chitika ads will not even have been requested for certain visitors.