Why FireFox is Blocked (funny site of the day)

http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/ ^ | http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/

[N3WBI3]

If online advertisers had not let the situation get out of hand popup windows which spawn popup windows ad blocking would never have become such a huge thing. Irony of ironies is the both IE and Opera have features which allow ad blocking.

Whats next are they going to check my hostfile to make sure I have not pointed their advertisers at 127.0.0.1?

This is like the folks who say if you get up to use the bathroom during a commercial or use tivo you're stealing

[N3WBI3]

OSS Ping..

[Brujo]

The site is pretty funny, but funnier still is the link The Firefox Cult up at the top edge.

[zeugma]

This is like the folks who say if you get up to use the bathroom during a commercial or use tivo you're stealing

I've actually seen that argument made.

I don't want to go to any site that doesn't allow Firefox anyway. Their loss, not mine. 

[antiRepublicrat]

User Agent Switcher

[Publius6961]

If you are offended by the Mozilla Corporation's endorsement of dishonesty please contact the Mozilla Foundation and ask them to stop empowering internet theft.

Au contraire, mon frere... I Thank this site for providing me the opportunity to express my appreciation for this feature.

Unfortunately, there is no way to separate the reasonable sites (which I totally don't mind) from the abusive or the outright criminal ones which:

a) Don't allow you to return whence you came. I really hate this one!
b) Chain an endless series of popups (Grrrrrrrr!)
c) Redirect a legitimate link somewhere else.
d) Are impossible to cancel out of.

Numerous web sites exist in order to provide quality content in exchange for displaying ads. Accessing the content while blocking the ads, therefore would be no less than stealing.

In view of the above, I reject that premise permanently and in its entirety; everything that follows then makes no sense.

Perhaps no popups or cookies whatsoever should be allowed to be downloaded without a user's consent. The web owner can then decide to disconnect the user, and everyone is happy.

Garbaging up users' computers and wasting millions of man-hours cleaning up the mess is the real crime here...

Just saying.

[ken21]

press 1 for ingleis,

press 2 for spanish.

ok.

interesting.

thanks.

[ken21]

i didn’t realize that there was so much animosity on both sides.

i use firefox because my experience is that when i’m running microsoft ie i get a LOT more malware.

[Turbopilot]

Yeah, and no fast-forwarding through commercials when you record a show either! And if you exceed the speed limit when you pass a billboard, you’re stealing eye-time from the billboard owner! And don’t even THINK about not reading every single circular in your Sunday paper!

What site(s) redirected you to this page? I may as well send those entire sites to 127.0.0.1.

[N3WBI3]

None, it was up on slashdot this morning..

[gondramB]

>>While blanket ad blocking in general is still theft, the real problem is Ad Block Plus’s unwillingness to allow individual site owners the freedom to block people using their plug-in. Blocking FireFox is the only alternative. <<

Network executives have made the same claim.
They have even suggested that one commits a crime if they get up to go to the bathroom during a commercial.

When I am provided with media whether its a book, a TV show or w web page, there is no contract that requires me to look at all the media in a particular order.

Additionally, when a web site is worthy, I support it voluntarily. maybe the other sites need to improve their content instead of bitching at users.

[Publius6961]

When I am provided with media whether its a book, a TV show or w web page, there is no contract that requires me to look at all the media in a particular order.

Great point.
I must confess to being one of those clueless nincompoops who actually records and saves the excellent (creative, funny, humorous or unique) commercials!

Of course, if any of them took over my TV and VTR or chained commercials endlessly I would do anything in my power to kill it.

Perhaps the pop-ups aren't the problem, but the way they are monumentally abused.

[PAR35]

I don’t block ads. Just popups and flash. Regular, static ads are ok by me.

That being said, if I was advertising on the net, I’d only buy interstitials that had to be clicked through.

[PAR35]

I clicked through - I notice that THEY don’t block Firefox.

[GraniteStateConservative]

This is like the folks who say if you get up to use the bathroom during a commercial or use tivo you're stealing

The RIAA will sue you for theft of intellectual property if you get a song stuck in your head.

[EricT.]

Great. Now the Firefox developers can make the browser say that these websites are full of popup ads and phishing come-ons, and are therefore unaccessable. When these jackholes realize that the hit count is near zero, maybe they’ll get a clue.

[Salo]

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts

Nice sets of host redirects.

[Turbopilot]

Oh, okay. I’ll be curious to see if I ever come across a page that actually redirects me there.

Then I’ll change my header to say I’m using IE, just so I can evilly steal their poor innocent content :-p

[antiRepublicrat]

Additionally, when a web site is worthy, I support it voluntarily. maybe the other sites need to improve their content instead of bitching at users.

I have a small number of sites in AdBlock's exception list.

[BJClinton]

Thanks for the link, I’ll try it out.