Should I block ads of the forum?

Just my two cents ...

I have no problems with the idea of ads on a site. So if proboards wants to use that funding stream and I benefit by having BSNuf available to me for free ... cool.

But ...

(there is always a "but" ... isn't there?)

If the ad has some long running scripts, bogs everything down, autoplays videos, loud sounds or takes me to other sites, links me to malware ... ya know, that's on proboards and I'm not going to support that. Initially I had no ad blocker, then when things bogged down, enabled my ad blocker. Of course, the next thing I saw was a proboards plea to disable ad blocker ... so turned it off, got the whole bogged down webpage thing, ad block re-enabled.

Here's the deal proboards ... it's on you to screen the ads on your sites. If they have the various intrusive and deleterious impacts on users, then deny their use by a prospective advertiser. Limit your site to ads that don't do the above. Yeah, you'll be tossing out some money ... initially ... but if more sites did that, the ad industry would learn and adapt. And amazingly, more people would allow ads on their webpages, without using third party software to protect themselves. In this case, less is more. De-escalate the ad wars.  Sponsors ... those not using intrusive ads ... will win. The targets of the ads ... like me ... will win. Owners of websites ... like you ... will win. But it all starts with the owner of the website.