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The solution exists for years: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
I don't eat meat and I don't use adblockers - both habits make me feel morally superior ;)
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I don't eat meat and I don't use adblockers - both habits make me feel morally superior ;)
Why do you think adblockers are immoral? Genuine question, not trying to stand on some moral high ground, just curious of your opinion, is all.
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I don't eat meat and I don't use adblockers - both habits make me feel morally superior ;)
Why do you think adblockers are immoral? Genuine question, not trying to stand on some moral high ground, just curious of your opinion, is all.
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Don't use abp. You should read this trough Google Translate maybe: http://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke-...
Is there any evidence that they're doing anything sleazy? This seems like a crackpot conspiracy theory, not actual news.
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Why do you think adblockers are immoral? Genuine question, not trying to stand on some moral high ground, just curious of your opinion, is all.
Ads are part of a social contract you have with the publisher of the site.
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Why do you think adblockers are immoral? Genuine question, not trying to stand on some moral high ground, just curious of your opinion, is all.
Ads are part of a social contract you have with the publisher of the site.
Pretty much any form of animation on a page causes me to stop reading it, until I can find some way of eliminating it. Too many ads are animated to risk going without an adblocker, flash blocking and disabling of autoplay etc.
And it's not just ads. It's currently fashionable to have all sorts of slide overs as you near the end of an article. Those cause me to stop reading too, until I've killed the elements that caused the slide over. Similarly with floating page headers (vertical space is at a premium), floating social button menus, etc.
And of course, then there's custom fonts. For years, I viewed the web with custom font downloading disabled, until the near ubiquity of FontAwesome forced me to concede. But I still run a plugin to disable font choices, and will run pages through a Readable bookmarklet if the designer has prioritized style over legibility.
I don't really see the relationship between me and site publishers as a social contract. It's much more hostile than that. They try to ram an incredible amount of crap into my sensory input, and I defend myself from their assault every way I can.
Got a MacKeeper adware popup when clicking the logo :/
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I don't eat meat and I don't use adblockers - both habits make me feel morally superior ;)
Why do you think adblockers are immoral? Genuine question, not trying to stand on some moral high ground, just curious of your opinion, is all.
> Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
If everyone blocked ads the websites that rely on ad revenue would lose money and have to shut down.
Sure, if only some of the users block ads they can probably survive, but someone had to see the ads. How do I justify that I get to block ads while others don't?
That said, without adblock I do find NoScript to be a necessity when navigating some parts of the web (e.g. TPB), which has the side effect of being a sort-of ad-block. But that I can live with.
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Why do you think adblockers are immoral? Genuine question, not trying to stand on some moral high ground, just curious of your opinion, is all.
This debate has been done to death on HN but the short version is that people who use ad blockers are essentially freeloading on people who don't block them. For many websites, no ads = no revenue = no content/service.
"Are you a boy or a girl?" Popping up when I'm in my office at home is something that makes me want to use adblock. And I don't use adblock.