slayerduck said:
Hypnohub, rule34, gelbooru and many other booru's have popunders because they make as much money as all the other ads together. They pop under the window, not over it.
Adblockers are rising and in the end the adblockers will be the ones to lose, either sites will block all users using adblock, completely die out or lose mayor quality or paywalls are needed to sustain revenue.
In the future i can guarantee you that most of the booru's (including this one) will implement the blocking method to avoid going bankrupt. my stats recorded current adblock total (desktop/tablet/phone) is 33%. Compared to 26% of 2013-2014. Once this number hits the +45% you can expect this on at least the big booru's.
I've never had any pop-unders when browsing here, and I use my non-adblock browser for this site. rule34 though, opens a new tab in my browser and redirects the browser focus to that new tab when clicking on thumbnails. That is unacceptable to me, so I don't use the site at all anymore.
There is no need to lecture me about overuse of adblock. Like I said; I use adblock only as a defensive measure for sites that don't know how to, or are incapable of preventing malicous banner ads from getting on them. For me, if a site owners wants me to keep browsing them on my non-adblock browser, they just have to monitor their ads and make sure they don't display ads with malicious code in them.
I really do not think it's too much to ask for the sites I browse not to regularly try to infect my computer with viruses.