I understand you in every sense. I used to use an ad-blocker myself. But I disabled it on sites I support, and I think you should do the same. (I’ve since gotten rid of it.) I purchase subscriptions when I can (e.g. Newgrounds, Google Play Music.) I donate to websites where the ads annoy me. Enough about what I do.

Why it’s important for the community to give back

Many websites need money to stay up. If the money stops coming in from advertisements, the owners of the website can no longer pay their developers, can no longer pay for servers, and the website will shut down as they can’t pay for said servers.

Why advertising is needed

Advertising is one of the ways to keep websites free and open. Without advertisements, sites will have to be locked behind paywalls for them to make any kind of money, which most people would not spend to access that content. Instead, they’ll go the alternative route and see some advertisements in return for free content.

I get it

I hate ads too. But to keep websites free and out of the paywall, follow in my footsteps and take a few seconds to turn off your ad-blocker if you have one.

To see what Vanillo has to do with any of this, watch this.