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My approach is from the other angle: I run an Adblocker but set it to permissive. That way if I find a really annoying site I can tap the right button and ads are blocked.

To me that seems the fairest approach.




That's cool, although it doesn't send a message to the site owner that their behavior is unacceptable.

They still get the hits, and just think the ads are performing worse, so they better make them even more irritating.


Not visiting the site anymore doesn't send the message either. Why would they assume it was obnoxious ads, rather than decreased interest in their content, competition, etc? The only way they'll know is to actually tell them.




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