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Online Ad-blocking Attacked
News If any browser manufacturer considered implementing an ad-blocking feature as a default option, Smith said they should consider their own position as a marketer [of their own products] and a publisher of content.
[June 23, 2005, 10:05]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback As nobody is forcing me to use ad-blocking, which I use, it is quite OK. And if ad-blockin was inpossible then I would never read the ads anyway.
[June 23, 2005, 11:27]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback Ah, it's the usual cry from businesses which wish to derive revenue from every single click the public makes online. This scare talk of the 'end of the free-content model' deliberately overlooks the fact that the content of the Web has grown less...
[June 27, 2005, 11:11]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback If the advertisers did not seek to prevent us reading that free content by covering it up with adverts, we would have no need to ad-block.
[June 23, 2005, 11:26]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback It would not be unreasonble to install ad-blocking mechanisms. The argument against ad-blocking is not genuine and reasonable and the content provider must have means and options to remove the unnecesary and annoying ads.
[June 23, 2005, 10:47]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback I have an ad blocker on my proxy so I don't have to put up with noisy, bouncing, jiggling, content disrupting crap. I watch DVDs rather than TV to avoid the adverts. I read news papers and sometimes even look at the adverts
[June 28, 2005, 6:28]
Firefox Improves Pop-up Ad Blocking
Talkback Very good job the fire fox popups must die defiantly works real good I can go to yahoo.com boardstogo.com those are the ones to really check it out on so good job fire fox is the only one I will use.
[September 30, 2005, 23:29]
Firefox Improves Pop-up Ad Blocking
Talkback Here is my MO dealing with ads on web sites a) If it's an ad for a *local* business (say on the local BBS) I click on it, reguardless. Basically your annoying me, so by annoying me, I won't support you.e) If it's a text, or static image ad, it'll...
[April 4, 2005, 21:07]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback Baloney! My newspaper ads do not 1) steal CPU cycles that I bought for my own use, 2) masquerade as anything but ads, 3) appear unwanted in front of my face when I'm doing something else, 4) install unwanted junk, 5) track my interests and reading...
[June 27, 2005, 16:52]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback I have to access the internet via GPRS through my mobile phone and I get charged by the amount of data I download. Therefore, I greatly resent the idea of having to pay to receive adverts that mean nothing to me and also increase the (already...
[June 23, 2005, 12:22]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback Advertising is beyond the point of ridiculous these days. You are not able to escape sights and sounds, sometimes subtle, sometimes in your face. If I had the time to cut holes in my newspaper to filter out the ads, if there were a way I would.
[June 24, 2005, 0:38]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback As somebody else said, advertisers need to look at their own methods and how intrusive they are becoming, the advertising industry is slowly commiting suicide in the Internet with their current trends of blocking out the site contents.
[June 23, 2005, 17:26]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback I agree with the article in the most part - people are free to choose which websites they surf and if the content is good enough then surfers choose to look at that page in the most part free of charge (bar connection charges and bandwidth).
[June 23, 2005, 17:07]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback Internet advertisers can kiiss my ass. I pay for satellite radio so I don't have to hear ads. I watch shows on my Sonic Blue DVR because it reads the subcodes in the vertical blanking region and automatically skips recording commercials.
[June 23, 2005, 15:19]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback " the 25c newspaper would cost $5," - but in a 25c newspaper, the ads do not pop up in front of the columns, flash, move, try to hijack my eyeballs, make the newspaper ten times as heavy, track what other newspapers I read or, frankly, annoy the...
[June 23, 2005, 15:17]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback Jon is right. I personally also don't mind ads if they are not flashing, floating over the text I'm reading. If ads on the internet would behave the same as ads in a newspaper then nobody would mind them I think, but the way that they make noice...
[June 23, 2005, 14:02]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback Internet ads cost the reader a lot in paying for the number of bytes. Typically 5KB of text becomes 150 or 200KB with ads added. This is a heavy load for dialup users.
[June 23, 2005, 13:49]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback The ad industry needs to clean up their act. I don't mind ads -- as long as they are not OBNOXIOUS ads. I don't need ads flashing away or buzzing in my ear. Neither do I need ads that come sliding across or popping up over what I am trying to read.
[June 23, 2005, 12:54]
Automatic Ad Blocking: Improving AdBlock For The Mozilla Platform
White Papers Blocking web advertisements can thus substantially improve the user's browsing experience. Advertising on the World Wide Web is increasingly becoming problematic. In addition to merely being a nuisance, advertisements may also pose a threat to user...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Firefox Improves Pop-up Ad Blocking
News The Mozilla Foundation has developed a beta patch for the Firefox browser that it claims improves the blocking of pop-up ads. The popular open source browser already contains a pop-up blocker by default, but this does not handle pop-ups launched by...
[April 4, 2005, 17:40]
