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How does turning it off make them money if you still don't buy anything? I will NEVER turn off adblock because I'm NEVER going to click on some stupid flashing ad and give someone money. Never, ever will I do that.
Comment by VanillaChinchilla at 06/08/2015 at 03:09 UTC
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In most cases, they get paid whenever someone loads an ad on their page. They get paid more if the ad is clicked.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/08/2015 at 12:28 UTC
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Ads pay out based on impressions usually, not click throughs. If the ad is delivered the site/person gets paid.
When I'm watching my subscriptions on youtube, I turn my adblocker off, because those people provide content that I enjoy and watching an ad for 20 seconds or so doesn't bother me and helps them out. Most of the time though I keep the adblocker on unless the site has unobtrusive ads - like here, until the advertising started becoming a reason for all these changes I don't like.