Posted on 02/17/2014 4:12:46 AM PST by ShadowAce
I use Firefox. I hate the new ads and was wondering if my popup blocker had failed. Glad for the clarification.
I hate hate hate the ads and do not “understand” and will likely get a Macbook because I want to be virus free which is why I use Mozilla instead of Internet Explorer. I want to be ad free too.
So this idiot broad has killed the goose that lays the golden eggs and Firefox is done.
I had to update the newest version of Youtube on my droid last night.
Screwgle really messed that up. It lasted all of 5 minutes.
What a piece of crap. More tracking crap than any app. I have ever seen.
You were probably an early adopter of cable, too. ;->
We should all get everything for free, right?
The same with talk radio. Around 25 minutes of ads and "news" per hour. It's aggravating.
It’s why I don’t listen to radio, or have subscription TV anymore.
If the user is the product (and we have been for quite some time), then yes--we should get it for free.
I first saw Midori on my RaspberryPi. Cool browser. Unfortunately, on Midori's download page:
"Peril" is not what I need in my browser... not even a little peril (Holy Grail).
Warning! You appear to be using Mac OS X, and this application is not compatible with that system.
Continue at your peril.
NOTE: I believe in compensating folks for the work they do. I don't mind ads that merely pay for the service provided. I don't want everything for free "just because everything should be free".
But I do NOT want the presence of "sponsors" to have the same effect they had on TV, which is to stifle content by censorship. That's the danger I avoid.
I am following the same path I did with XP several years ago — I quit upgrading most software, including browsers and Windows.
About 6 months ago, it seemed that every software upgrade created a conflict with some other software program.
Windows 7
Java
Adobe PDF
Adobe Flash
Firefox
IE 10 [MS auto-updated from 9 to 10. 10 caused some add-ons to quit working. I had to drop back to IE9 just to keep things working]
Every time I see ‘upgrade/update’ for software, I cringe. More times than not, I have had to do a system restore to a previous time just to clear out the new conflicts.
It wasn’t broke, so they fixed that.
> If the user is the product (and we have been for quite some time), then yes--we should get it for free.
The way I figure, I donate real money to Wikipedia (which has no ads), but I don't donate real money to Firefox, because they are supported almost entirely by Google, and Google gets a TON of revenue from the ads that appear all over the freakin' place in my browsers.
If Firefox starts with the ads, I feel like I'm being "charged" twice. I guess I'd have to start using AdBlock or something, but I'm never entirely sure what blockers do that I might not want. FlashBlock being the one exception to that -- unwanted Flash is an abomination.
I have many TV programs that do not have ads.
In the 1970s, TV programs had typically 48 minutes of content.
Now, TV programs have between 38 and 42 minutes of content.
Half-hour TV programs have comparable reductions in content.
Broadcasters cut out parts of the older programs to fit them into the new lengths. In so doing, they cut out some content that is essential to the program.
Similarly, over the years, many people have come to expect someone to wipe their butt, too.
Those eager to accomodate them are currently serving 2-4-6 year terms, depending on their level of expertise.
Hence our national toilet circling race.
Today Mozilla gets almost all of its funding from Google
Anyone have a clue as to whether the other browsers that use FF code under the hood are similarly beholden to Leviathan Jr ?
Frankly, this having to look for alternative software and/or updates every 15 minutes is gettin' pretty f'n old.
I’ve found safari is good in the first two, though I haven’t used linux so can’t speak to that.
If I need a product, I'll do the research to find what best suits.
Otherwise, I despise advertising - 99% of which is absolutely moronic.
If that makes me a 'freeloader' in the minds of some, oh well.
I happened to notice on the Directv guide this morning, Brady Bunch has a marathon on TVLand and each episode runs 45 minutes.
speaking for myself, when that annoying hockey penguin became unable to turn off, and i kept getting those annoying ads. i switched to chrome.
firefox needs me more than i need firefox.
I run AdBlock Plus and NoScript, so I don't know anything about that. I've never seen anything like that.
Uh, no we don't. The only thing I want a browser to do is browse. Possibly remember passwords.
Exactly.
Wait until the ads are bought in block purchase by Obamacare (using your own tax dollars), the DNC, MoveOn.org (they bought a login screen, must view ad on Myspace blaming Booosh for Katrina than ran over 1 week), et al.
I’ve tuned out of tv, I don’t see such propaganda. could you imagine such banners appearing at the top of your browser all the time?
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