I have tapas on adblock, and I have reasons

[sarahrebecca58]

I gotta say, there is a lot better reasons to block ads than not giving money to good service to low income people.

Like, I don't know, ads being a kind of surveillance network.

[mintycanoodles]

well u could also just stick your head in the sand. that way you don't have to see anything u don't like.

[SpavVy]

Planned Parenthood does not make money off of these ads, we creators on the other hand do. You can easily customize which content ads you see on google or whatever search engine you use.
One time On YouTube I kept getting ads for pregnancy tests, diapers, formulas etc. All because I went to a baby naming site to find names and their meanings for a side villain in my comic.

[Michelle]

Women's healthcare, specifically, is politically charged in the U.S. . It's horrible, because organizations like PP provide a lot of life-saving healthcare for women like cancer screening and counseling for abuse victims that poor people cannot afford. And, like @DaniBoy mentioned, prenatal care for pregnant women. Abortions actually comprise a very small percentage of their total services, somewhere between 3-10%.

But like others said, just having an ad pop up on your screen doesn't mean that advertiser gets money. If that's how it worked, websites would probably be wallpapered with ads.

[LordVincent]

Women's healthcare, specifically, is politically charged in the U.S. . It's horrible, because organizations like PP provide a lot of life-saving healthcare for women like cancer screening and counseling for abuse victims that poor people cannot afford. And, like @DaniBoy mentioned, prenatal care for pregnant women. Abortions actually comprise a very small percentage of their total services, somewhere between 3-10%.

Here in Sweden, I do believe most forms of birth control are part of general healthcare, which is provided cheaply or entirely free (tax paid) to any citizen that might need it.
There are people that disapprove of abortions here too, just like anywhere else. But most recognize that it's a choice they make for their own lives and that they are not entitled to deciding for anyone else.

Most of us just stare at US culture and scratch our heads, haha.

[UrMom]

@LordVincent Yeah, the US is pretty much run by corporations. I can only assume part of the reason why we don't have socialized healthcare yet is because the insurance and pharmaceutical companies making bank off us would become obsolete... another part is the group of people who don't want to pay extra taxes for strangers who need life-saving treatments/medicine.

Really there's a whole can of worms about why the US works the way it does.

[tayo_rafferty]

But I'm not supporting P.P., not by any means

When you view an ad you're supporting the creator not the advertiser.

[GoldenPlume]

When you view an ad you're supporting the creator not the advertiser.

Since most advertisers are bidding CPC (cost-per-click) they only pay when the ad is clicked vs. when the ad is shown. If they are buying impressions then they pay whenever the ad is shown.

If you want to cause financial damage to a company the best way do so is to actually click the ad, so Google will bill them for it, then close the page after 10 seconds. That way it will register a bounce. The higher the bounce rate is the less important/relevant a website is.

That's about the most damage you can do.

If that's too much effort then you can also click the little X on the upper right of the ad. When you do so the ad will disappear and it will say, "Ad Closed By Google". Then it offers the option, "Stop Seeing This Ad". If you click that, presto you won't ever see it again.

[tayo_rafferty]

@GoldenPlume Interesting but I don't understand why you're telling me.

[shaylafarley5]

I use ad block as well, mainly on YouTube and anime sites. I just hate pop ups!
Especially when I'm trying to read something then BAM! Congrats you just won!
Now I gotta waste my time trying to close the window before something else pops up.

[Mari]

When I was in high school an anti-choicer was being a public menace outside of a mall and stopped my friend and me on our tracks to say "did you know there's over 10 000 abortions performed every year in finland" and my friend screamed at the top of her lungs "Good" and marched past him.

Seeing people just offended that they saw the existence of women's health organizations sure feels odd.

[VibrantFox]

I can't quite understand the hate for PP but the only time I ever used adblock on Tapas was during a period of time where having ads slowed down my browser speed and forced me to close the entire thing and reload it. Only after feeling guilty and looking to see if the issue still occurred did I take adblock off, especially since it feels relatively hypocritical of me to use it as a creator trying to earn ad revenue myself.

I agree with GoldenPlume's advise about closing the ad and following the options provided by google. I've done the same when it came to Facebook ads I didn't want to see. Being that now, as opposed to early on where you couldn't really control your content, you can choose what you do and don't want to see. So there's little reason in my own opinion to complain.

Plus if I'm not mistaken if you look through your personal google settings, if staying logged into an email or YouTube account is something you do, you are able to choose whether or not you get suggested ads based on what you've looked at across the web. I'm not the biggest fan of custom ads but I try to be aware of the options I have to control what's there when possible.

[IdiotWithPencil]

being american is a politically charged topic to americans (they are so sensetive -_-)

[VibrantFox]

@IdiotWithPencil It's so true it hurts and I live here =__=

[IdiotWithPencil]

may the gods have mercy on your poor soul :C

[sarahrebecca58]

Wait a minute, refusing to use a centralized ad service like paypal through ads designed to violate your privacy is sticking head in one's bunghole?

Then please allow me to stick it in so far, I can't pull it out.

I have nothing against Planned Parenthood, but this twisting anonymity and collective information as a good thing, is very mainstream news like.

Oh! But I'm the one to negative. Sometimes you got to be to protect yourself.

[ryoko]

This topic seems to have been created for the purpose of trolling....

[sarahrebecca58]

Then lets not keep it going. I'm tired of hearing people lecture about how people are awful expecting privacy.

[LordVincent]

...nobody is arguing privacy, but rather putting forth suggestions on how to easily fix the specific issue the OP had and discussing whether or not this is even "politically charged" to begin with.

Also not everyone you disagree with is a troll.

[ryoko]

I'm thinking trolling since the original thread creator hasn't replied to anyone in the thread, just kinda wrote something to get people riled up. They also only joined two days ago.