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Why FireFox is Blocked (funny site of the day)
http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/ ^ | http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/

Posted on 08/17/2007 9:47:13 AM PDT by N3WBI3

You've reached this page because the site you were trying to visit now blocks the FireFox browser. 

The Mozilla Foundation and its Commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, has allowed and endorsed Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that blocks advertisement on web sites and also prevents site owners from blocking people using it. Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of the rights of web site owners and developers. 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. Millions of hard working people are being robbed of their time and effort by this type of software.  Many site owners therefore install scripts that prevent people using ad blocking software from accessing their site. That is their right as the site owner to insist that the use of their resources accompanies the presence of the ads.

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. Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers..

Since the makers of Ad Block Plus as well as the filter subscriptions that accompany it refuse to allow website owners control over their own intellectual property, and since FireFox actively endorses Ad Block Plus, the sites linking to this page are now blocking FireFox until the resource theft is stopped.

Netscape users can simply set their browser to IE mode to continue to enjoy the site that sent you here. FireFox users can use Internet Explorer, Opera or Netscape (in IE mode) to access it. FireFox users also have the option of using the IE Tab plug-in which uses the IE rendering engine to display pages, but also disables the Ad Block Plus plug-in.

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.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: firefox; opensource
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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

1 posted on 08/17/2007 9:47:15 AM PDT by N3WBI3
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To: N3WBI3; ShadowAce; Tribune7; frogjerk; Salo; LTCJ; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; amigatec; Fractal Trader; ..

OSS Ping..


2 posted on 08/17/2007 9:48:52 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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The site is pretty funny, but funnier still is the link The Firefox Cult up at the top edge.
3 posted on 08/17/2007 10:07:08 AM PDT by Brujo (Quod volunt, credunt.)
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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. 

4 posted on 08/17/2007 10:12:06 AM PDT by zeugma (If I eat right, don't smoke and exercise, I might live long enough to see the last Baby Boomer die.)
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User Agent Switcher
5 posted on 08/17/2007 10:34:13 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: N3WBI3
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.

6 posted on 08/17/2007 10:36:19 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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press 1 for ingleis,

press 2 for spanish.

ok.

interesting.

thanks.


7 posted on 08/17/2007 10:38:27 AM PDT by ken21 (28 yrs +2 families = banana republic junta. si.)
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To: Brujo

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.


8 posted on 08/17/2007 10:43:55 AM PDT by ken21 (28 yrs +2 families = banana republic junta. si.)
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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.


9 posted on 08/17/2007 10:43:56 AM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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None, it was up on slashdot this morning..


10 posted on 08/17/2007 10:46:18 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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>>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.


11 posted on 08/17/2007 10:49:43 AM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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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.

12 posted on 08/17/2007 11:03:30 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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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.

13 posted on 08/17/2007 11:06:42 AM PDT by PAR35
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I clicked through - I notice that THEY don’t block Firefox.


14 posted on 08/17/2007 11:10:48 AM PDT by PAR35
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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.

15 posted on 08/17/2007 11:13:45 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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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.


16 posted on 08/17/2007 11:21:51 AM PDT by EricT. (The tree of liberty needs to be watered...)
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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts

Nice sets of host redirects.


17 posted on 08/17/2007 11:23:50 AM PDT by Salo
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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


18 posted on 08/17/2007 11:56:59 AM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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To: gondramB
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.

19 posted on 08/17/2007 12:44:44 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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Thanks for the link, I’ll try it out.


20 posted on 08/17/2007 2:15:52 PM PDT by BJClinton (And then it occured to me: a real rocket scientist posted the Friday silliness thread on Thursday.)
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