questions about a coupled web sites:

[hunter]

5. Do you use ad blocking software?

Do you refuse to use Adobe Flash and other advertising plug-ins?

Some sites hate that. I think they use long time-outs to "punish" freeloaders.

I generally don't block internet ads, except for pop-ups and animations. But I also don't install plug-in software or allow scripts that make it easy for advertisers to track me.

I'll blacklist sites that do that. Huffington Post is on my shit list. I don't go there and I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

I don't see many ads in my daily life except for the static sort in newspapers, on billboards, or on the web. Those are easily ignored. My junk mail goes directly into the recycling bin unopened. I don't watch television or listen to commercial radio either.

I'm not "cheating" advertisers at all because I do my very best not to be a "consumer" and it's extremely unlikely I'd buy whatever it is they are selling.