Augie
I'll hold my hand up to that.

scalemates
I'm sure Augie is not the only one. Who else?

Alberto Michieletto
I use only adblock plugin for my browser.

Wilfried Bogaerts
This is more or less Chinese to me. How can I check this? 🙂

scalemates
@Alberto: Excellent! I guess 3 reasons for ad blocking = faster websites, increased privacy and less annoying "play this game" ads?

Augie
@scalemates: For me, its privacy and too many bad experience on other sites with musical adds or worse.

Bart Teunis
Me too

Erik Leijdens
I'm using Adblock Plus only

Olivier
I use Ghostery.

Urban Gardini
I'm using AdBlock for Chrome as well as I run a similar adblocker for Youtube. Reason: Damn tired of all the pesky adverts on other sites. Worst is various newspapers that run more ads than news and it do slow everything down. I didn't feel that there was any problems with the ads here at Scalemates before I installed the plugin about a year ago.

scalemates
can you please recheck now? Ads (the few) should load super fast

Urban Gardini
It works well with the ads so I'll allow them here.

scalemates
thx, I spent multiple evenings tuning the hell out of the ad loading 🙂

Spanjaard
i recently use the google plugin to block google analytics (not sure if actually makes sense to block google with google...) mostly for privacy reasons.

scalemates
FYI
We configured Google Analytics to anonymize your IP address.
All available data sharing settings in Google Analytics are disabled
No other Google Services are used in combination with our Google Analytics-cookies
We did not configure tracking of personal identifiers.
We configured Google Analytics to reduce _ga cookie time from 2 years to 6 months.

This is according to best practices (document from Dutch government) to have privacy friendly analytics.

Olivier
I have allowed G. Analytics for Scalemates

Augie
OK, I will add scalemates to trusted on mine.

Spanjaard
thanks a lot for that Tim. unfortunately, not all other webmasters will follow your example 😉