You can try it now, just activate an ad blocker.It's a whole different world. I'm always amazed how many ads are on the webpages nowadays, when i use a machine, which is not mine and it has no ad blocker installed.
On a more serious note: Which was first? The ads or the ad blockers? No-one cared to make (or use) any ad blocker until the ads weren't intrusive to the point where they started to seriously and negatively affect the user experience.
You can thank the existence of ad blockers to greedy webmasters and advertisers, who taught text ads aren't enough, we need blingy, moving flash ads with annoying sound possibly stuffed with malware/adware and countless popup windows. That's what pisses most people off, if there were only text ads and other non-intrusive advertising, no-one would really care to use an ad blocker.
When it comes to business, well it's the same. Create good content or good offers and you will get the customers.
There are 18 year olds on YouTube making $50,000 a day (no exaggeration) creating the most cringeworthy awful content I've ever seen in my life.
P.S. When was the last time anyone clicked on a banner anyway?
I have recently. Those ads on RedTube are so ... tempting ...
That doesn't count since I went to hook up with a MILF living near me as well.
It was BlackHatters that created the need for ad-blockers, anybody remember the days when clicking on a link resulted in 10-30 pop-ups/pop-unders?
Can you back that up?There are 18 year olds on YouTube making $50,000 a day (no exaggeration) creating the most cringeworthy awful content I've ever seen in my life. And according to OP I'm antisocial and shameless because I block some ads? Nah I'm good thanks.
Just a reminder to everyone, do yourself a favour and get uBlock Origin...
For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en
For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/