If people who made ad blockers were ethical, they would make their software easily detectable by the websites, so those websites could choose not to service those users.
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "other site" in the area I'm operating in is Google. So the situation is more like "other sites will continue to dominate by cross-subsidising from their core business, namely annoying users with ads and tracking them". Is that really what you want?
No, he wants free content without any convenience to him. He doesn't care about the so-called bigger picture, just the instant gratification he's been entitled to.
This isn't true, I'm perfectly willing to pay for content. I just don't want ads and I don't want to be tracked. Thanks to browser extensions I don't have to no matter how much that hurts your feelings. You say I'm entitled but it's actually you who isn't entitled to control how the software works on my computer.
I'm perfectly willing to support business models that aren't terrible. Perhaps you might also consider users not wanting to install rootkits, spyware and adware to support content entitled? It's the same, it's a shitty experience people don't want.
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#153Heh. Gotta love how the default filter already blocks ||sourceforge.net^
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#154The amount of vitriol by pro-advertising forces in this thread are pretty hilarious. As if the planet would stop spinning if people used adblock.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, ads remain the major e-business model till date (and will probably remain for a long time to come). I guess one of the problems is, everyone needs money to maintain a website and to make a profit, but not everyone has content (or products) that could sell. It's a difficult problem to solve in theory. I think simple text based (or even small images based) ads should be fine .. it's the flashy ones or the ones tha…
Micropayments should be a solution, but it's hard to get the cooperation needed for that going.
What about leasing visitors' processing power to run scientific computation? Maybe MapReduce jobs?
Would that be more intrusive or less intrusive than advertisement?
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#156The eff released their own ad blocker type tool available here https://www.eff.org/privacybadger and it's great. It doesn't come with a singular list of sites to block, but instead blocks domains that are seen across many domains.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it supposed to run alongside uBlock Origin or is it indended as a replacement?
Not a replacement per se but they would conflict, yes.
github seems to imply you can use both together (with the chrome caveat at the bottom)
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/Using-uBlock-with-uM...
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
By blocking GA, the site doesn't see you as a visitor. Well too bad. Maybe they should take the radical step of actually looking at their server logs .
When you run a website, you have two choices: spend a bunch of time implementing log analysis and paying for all the storage necessary, or using GA, which already exists and is free. If log analytics isn't my core business, why should I spend time implementing it?
No, you should buy something that does log analytics for you without shafting your viewers. The existence of deceptive-but-gratis services like GA means there is almost no market for proper analysis software, which is a scandal.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
TL;DR: "uBlock Origin" (or "uBlock₀") is the version you want (maintained by the creator of the project, up-to-date) The original "uBlock" github repo was created by gorhill. Later, the repo was handed to a contributor of the project (chrisaljoudi) who did nothing good with it. Finally, gorhill forked chrisaljoudi's repo to create "uBlock Origin" and resumed development.
I don't think that this is actually true. Yes, gorhill started ublock and then handed it over, but chrisaljoudi just continued development and made some changes (like a call for donations). I'm not aware he did anything bad, and in the video he put up sounded just a bit unlucky, not like planning to do bad things ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1TpddtVUA ). Or see https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/38lf1y/a…
chrisaljoudi is not pushing anything compared to gorhill, just compare the commit rates:
- https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/graphs/contributors
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors
I am not claiming that chrisajoudi did anything intentionally wrong, he simply does not contribute as much.