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
OSS Ping..
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.
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.
press 1 for ingleis,
press 2 for spanish.
ok.
interesting.
thanks.
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.
>>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.
That being said, if I was advertising on the net, I’d only buy interstitials that had to be clicked through.
I clicked through - I notice that THEY don’t block Firefox.
The RIAA will sue you for theft of intellectual property if you get a song stuck in your head.
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.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts
Nice sets of host redirects.
Registrant:
Danny Carlton
Catoosa, Oklahoma 75015
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: WHYFIREFOXISBLOCKED.COM
Created on: 06-Aug-07
Expires on: 06-Aug-08
Last Updated on: 06-Aug-07
Administrative Contact:
Carlton, Danny godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
Danny apparently is hosted at or operates:
familynethome.com
along with his DannyCarlton.net
Having been online for over 25 years and knowing a little more than the average bear about hosting and designing websites, Mr. Carlton will soon learn that anything you do to shut out a certain percentage of your potential clients/buyers will quickly assist you in becoming either unemployed or on welfare.
Sorry, there ain't anybody who give a rat's @$$ about Danny's feelings about FireFox. Blocking people from his websites because of their browser choice is a sure way of not having anyone visit your website. It's like being p!ssed off at Google, so you block all traffic originating from them... yeah, that'll work -- real well!
I wish Danny all the best of luck... he's gonna need it.
I don't know if it's just because of the slashdot effect or not, but all of those domains either time out or take ages to load. Then again, maybe he's got his server in his bedroom, running off his DSL/Cable modem line and it only takes 4 people to max out his server/bandwidth. [grin]
Aw the want stuff for free crowd is upset they didn’t get it. Where do I donate to pay for their mistreatment, or do we need to setup a government program?
This guy probably preferred DIVX over DVDs as well.