Comments on: Ad blocker an officially recommended Firefox add-on

By: Google Recommends Firefox, Mozilla Recommends Adblock Plus | Etixet

Google Recommends Firefox, Mozilla Recommends Adblock Plus | Etixet — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:53:59 +0000

[…] surprise a lot of people - though Mozilla earns millions from advertising revenue indirectly, they have included Adblock Plus in their list of most recommended add-ons for FireFox for users to block […]

By: Bill Hendrickson

Bill Hendrickson — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:12:01 +0000

Damien, you seem to not understand the Web. The Web experience is controlled entirely by browsers, not by servers. Browsers can display any content they want, filter any content they want, or change any content they want before displaying it. As a site owner you have no control over this whatsoever. If this is not suitable to you, then you should not put content on the Web. As you may have noticed, many large publishers put content on the Web nonetheless. This is because, on balance, it is still hugely profitable. But once they have put something on the Web, they have given it away for free. Think of Ads as a tip jar in front of a street musician. listeners may put money in if they enjoy the music, or not. Either way, the musician is giving the music away for free. The fact that you don’t seem to know this is unfortunate for you.

By: pulanet » Blog Archive » Google Recommends Firefox, Mozilla Recommends Adblock Plus

Thu, 10 May 2007 19:04:27 +0000

[…] Now this may surprise a lot of people - though Mozilla earns millions from advertising revenue indirectly, they have included Adblock Plus in their list of most recommended add-ons for FireFox for users to block “intrusive advertisements” on the web. […]

By: Techo blog » Blog Archive » Google Recommends Firefox, Mozilla Recommends Adblock Plus

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:51:31 +0000

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Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:28:04 +0000

By: Andrew R

Andrew R — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:06:41 +0000

For all those that are comparing the internet to TV and saying that ad’s are part of the deal, have you heard of the TiVo? People aren’t watching ads on TV anymore. They are recording shows and skipping the ads. It’s the new way. We the viewers determine what we will watch not network or advertising execs. That’s why networks are having to move to more product placement. The internet is the same way. If a company is insistent on ads there are many techniques that can be used to make it very difficult to block the ads, and Google uses some of them.

By: Wladimir Palant

Wladimir Palant — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:15:47 +0000

My response is here: http://adblockplus.org/blog/mozilla-hurting-google-by-recommending-adblock-plus

By: Wladimir Palant

Wladimir Palant — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:06:31 +0000

Damien, this attitude of having to force ads down everybody’s throat, without caring whether the ads are targeted enough to be of any use or whether they still allow reading the content of your site without being distracted, is exactly what is pushing Adblock into mainsteam. As written in the articles I cited above - you can have ads and get some money out of it without annoying your users, but you have to do some more effort.

Oh, and while your site is entirely your domain, my computer is mine, and I have the right to do anything with it that I like. Nobody can force me to download something I don’t want.

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:02:48 +0000

Users are using my website which I pay to have developed and run. It’s totally my right to have ads on it if I like and not the users right to block them. If they to use my information they see the ads, that’s the deal.

Do you think TV networks would allow use to watch a full episode of 24 with the ads removed in between? They pay to have the show on their network and make money selling advertising. It’s exactly the same principal.

Like the comments before, I don’t mind elite users having this installed because they won’t click on ads anyway generally, but I certainly do not want it to become mainstream.

By: Mayo

Mayo — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:31:50 +0000

Bah,
sorry to say this: some moronic statements up here….

1st Adblock doesn’t block AdSense advertising, it blocks pop-up ads and banners on your choice(you have to block them personally)!

2nd if the Scriptblocker was recommended than all the hell would broke loose because you don’t see many of the “intelligent” ads, between them the AdSense on all pages on the internet, except on the Google landing page!

3rd I would like to see those blockers installed on Firefox by default! PERIOD

My question is this: WTF kind of pro’s are you if you don’t even know what the hell are you talking about??