Never. It’s a malware vector.

Once upon a time, long ago, I did it for reddit but they burnt that good will to the ground. Give a corporation an inch and they’ll take as many miles as they can before someone stops them: I block everything now and if it won’t load then I don’t bother with it. If it’s really important I’ll still find a way to view it but never again will I allow ads anywhere I can help it. Advertisements are a very serious threat to security and privacy. Malware and scams are routine in ads, even ads from known corporations that are supposedly safe, like Google.

If ads went back to a static image I would turn off my adblocker.

But, most sites are just too annoying without an adblocker. If a site will not function with an adblocker I leave the site.

Not for a well made one, but one I made.

I was testing some shitty PHP code and turned off adnausem just incase it was messing with my shitty PHP code. But I should have known my shitty PHP code was broken and it wasn’t adnausem.

Yes. It’s cryptii.com, a site containing tools for ciphering/deciphering (Caesar Cipher, ROT-13, Vigènere and so on). That’s because their ad, at the top right of the page, is so small that’s almost unnoticeable. No popup ads, no flashing ads, no crowded ad sections, just a single, small ad at the header. Sites like that (with static and small, non-intrusive ads) deserve to have ads allowed.

I disable it for very few sites. These sites provide nice and free niche content but don’t show any ads. I just disable so that the tracking works for sure, to motivate them continue running the site.

Nope. Never.

Sites are rarely involved in picking what ads get displayed. I know there’s controls with your ad provider that let you say it’s a tech site or a cooking site and similar ads will be shown but that’s not enough control to stop somebody malicious. The FBI recommends ad blockers for safety, not because they find them annoying.

I never disable adblock unless the site isn’t working properly.

No. I did my time for the many years I’ve endured when adblockers weren’t really much of a thing. So, that meant that I’ve put up with ads until 2006 which meant AdBlock Plus first debuted.

Ads are typically trash, they’re in your face, they’re invasive, they’re prone to have malware in them and it’s just marketing pollution that adds no value except to figure out ways, mostly in obnoxious fashion, to get you to spend money.

Nexusmods. Don’t want to pay for it so it’s the least I can do.

Rules to unblock:

Visit site, non obnoxious pops that says please unblock and allowed me to continue anyway. After I continue without unblocking, it has reasonable, clean ads in the margins, not distributed throughout the content.

I will them permanently unblock them.

There are a few car specific forums still running vBulletin that I pop the blocker off for. E.g, cb7tuner.com. They use unobtrusive banners on the top and bottom of the page and I do want to support them. Those are the only exceptions though.

Do you ever have sex without protection because the other person looks “clean”?

I disable on 2 of my local news sites because they need every penny, but not on local news sites owned by major publishers.