On 8/18/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 18-Aug-07, at 12:55 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > > take a look at this site: http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/ > > cool - i think firefox needs to do something so that only browsers > with the addblock plugin on are given the boot > > > Gentlemen, I call bull. Do you not have a right to switch channels on TV when they show ads? Are you forced to sit in a cinema hall when ads are shown? What would happen if somebody said that you would not be allowed to use a toll/non-toll road if you didn't stop and pay obeisance to each billboard?
This is trash. Adblock was created to help users keep a healthy interest in the internet, when things began to go out of hand with screaming, in-your-face, obnoxious ads that took up 75% of the screen's real estate and tripled download times. I block as many flash animations I can see, as well as ads. I only spare text based google ads, and if everybody started to scale things down, adblock would not be required. As of now, I find it protects my right over the advertiser's, and I believe my right assumes primacy over theirs. Why? Without adblock, I would have no choice but to view whatever they had decided to display, but they could always choose to make it minimal. It's sort of a mosquito net. And which businesses are bothered the most by it? Pesky insects from the doubleclick.net genus. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
