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Adblock Plus, scourge of websites, seeks industry deal
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| February 7, 2016
| Marie Julien
Posted on 02/08/2016 5:46:58 AM PST by hiho hiho
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
I agree. I use AdBlock and I’ll happily unblock sites I regularly visit if all they show are banner ads. But if they are having ads pop up and block the text I am trying to read or worse, if they start playing unsolicited audio, I am either blocking that site or unbookmarking it.
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posted on
02/08/2016 6:30:30 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(Delegates So Far: Cruz (8); Trump (7); Rubio (7)
To: McGruff
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Sorry,
Opera is a webrowser. Firefox is a webbrowser. Internet Explorer is a webbrowser. IE is probably the worst at blocking ads and such.
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posted on
02/08/2016 6:36:28 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Rubio quit his job as senator. Can't have a quitter as president.)
To: McGruff
Maybe I’ll give it a try. I used Chrome for awhile but kept getting malware so I went back to IE/Edge.
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
My bad. I said Opera when I meant Chrome. Must be super bowl mental lag.
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posted on
02/08/2016 6:44:35 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Rubio quit his job as senator. Can't have a quitter as president.)
To: McGruff
You’re all messed up this morning....hope you were a Broncos fan at least.
To: hiho hiho
Most ads are blocked on my PC; when the few that pop up come on I just close them. One time in a dozen will I even read beyond the headline to see what they’re selling.
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posted on
02/08/2016 6:57:02 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
To: oh8eleven
The only acceptable level is zero. I'm so sick of commercials on TV - and pop ups on the PC, I'm thiiiiiis close to canceling all of it. So you think every person who creates content for the web should work for free.
This approach is way beyond even socialism. Essentially, you are a Gibsmedat.
To: CurlyDave
This approach is way beyond even socialism. Essentially, you are a Gibsmedat.I think that's unfair to say. Person A made some content, and wants to share it. Person B likes it. Person A wants to add in commercials, to get paid for his valuable time and effort. Perron B is allowed to say, "you know, I hate ads like those so much that I don't enjoy your content enough to deal with them. Thanks, but I'm out."
Both sides making fair and free decisions. No "gibmedat" about it.
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posted on
02/08/2016 7:19:21 AM PST
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
I'm not willing to tolerate auto-playing videos with sound.Those people should be killed.
Once a few of them are taken down word would get around.
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posted on
02/08/2016 7:23:37 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
( (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: hiho hiho
I’m using mvps.org.
It uses host files to block ads. It works great and it works across all browsers.
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posted on
02/08/2016 7:23:52 AM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: r_barton
Here’s something even better: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
it uses host files so it works on all browsers and protects your machine overall from any other ways they may try to connect to these sites.
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posted on
02/08/2016 7:25:48 AM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: CurlyDave
This approach is way beyond even socialism. Essentially, you are a Gibsmedat. So--you're a big fan of "Minority Report" type ads. Invade your privacy, snoop on all your transactions, and choices, and then push ads in front of your face so blatantly, you can't see the content you wanted to see in the first place.
You're also a fan of forced consumerism and the non-freedom to choose what you want to see/consume.
Good to know.
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posted on
02/08/2016 7:33:43 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: CurlyDave
Uh, no, that’s not what he said. He said he found the ads so unpleasant he was thinking of no longer bothering with the content. Doesn’t sound like a gibsmmedat to be.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:27:14 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
I'm perfectly willing to tolerate ads on a website. I'm not willing to tolerate auto-playing videos with sound.Exactly. I didn't mind banner ads and understand that someone has to pay the bills but when these ads made websites unusable and slowed my browser to a crawl, it was time to block them.
Advertisers have no one but themselves to blame for Adblock Plus, etc.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:33:32 AM PST
by
Drew68
To: CurlyDave
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:39:11 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
I'm so sick of commercials on TV
Just last week, I bought a TiVo Bolt tv recorder. It can record up to 4 programs at a time. For many recorded programs, it can skip commercials during replay. So far, that has worked perfectly. For programs that cannot be set up for skipping, the remote has a 30-second rapid advance. When pushed multiple times, the 30-second advance will automatically advance for each push of the advance button.
The annual TiVo service is about $150/year, which is comparable to my cable's 2-at-a-time DVR service charge.
I do have to lease a cablecard, but it is only $1.99/month.
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:44:39 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Drew68
I'm honestly curious if they've done research to conclude that auto-playing videos actually bring in more business than banner ads that let you click on them.
I've clicked on some banner ads and ended up buying the product if it met a need. I just spent $1500 on an MSI computer that I found through a banner ad.
But those auto-playing videos lead me to just mute my computer when on the internet, which doesn't benefit anyone.
To: CurlyDave
Not when such an ad essentially hijacks my machine or is a conduit for viruses...
If sites using pop-ups would keep their ads “clean”, maybe I wouldn’t be such a villain.
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posted on
02/08/2016 9:17:57 AM PST
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: TomGuy
my cable's 2-at-a-time DVR service
I have that too, but I usually only record once in a blue moon. If it weren't for sports I'd pull the plug on all of it.
The other day, I channel surfed away from a show as it went to a commercial. I returned after 3 minutes to see an interruption in the commercials to remind the viewer what show they were watching. Unbelievable.
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posted on
02/08/2016 9:48:25 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
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