I’m not saying this is the same idiot who ran the Why Firefox is Blocked site. I actually think this is a parody of that site. But it’s certainly crazy enough to be the same guy. Here’s our earlier posting on this.
You’ve reached this page because the site you were trying to visit now blocks visitors from Digg and other social media sites.
The users of sites such as Digg, Netscape, Reddit and StumbleUpon openly endorse Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that blocks advertisement on web sites, and are well known for providing no value to the sites they visit. 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, Digg users who don’t click on these ads are stealing bandwidth without paying for it and website owners deserve a method to block this unauthorized bandwith theft.
For the computer literate, the number of hits to these sites will plummet. For the other, “barely can turn on the computer and check e-mail” crowd, you shall be unaffected.
Wow. I always thought the whole point of the Internet was to transfer and share information, not to keep it all bottled up.
What do I know?
Who cares! He has the right to have ads on his end. I have the right to block them on my end! Nuff said!
The only issue with blocking ads is that eventually, if enough people install them, the content of a website will be posted on a site in the same way the ads are. The ad blocker will then just leave an empty page. Those kinds of tools are really only effective when a minority use them.
I propose the following:
We need to form a corporation whose only purpose is to block ads in magazines. We all send our magazines to this company. They cut out all the advertisements in the magazine. They send it back to us.
Once the magazine is delivered to our door, we can do whatever we want with it, right? So why can’t we hire someone to remove the ads?
Is there any law prohibiting us from defacing a magazine we own?
If you cut out the ads in most magazines, there wouldn’t be enough pulp to hold the articles together. Most of the tech magazines, PCmag included, get thinner by the month, and half the magazines are special paid features, plus the regular ads.
Ok, block me if you want. Was there anything I wanted to see at your site anyway? Besides, my time is worth more to me than your precious bandwidth is to you.
Lets have some fun with him and make an Ad Block plugin for IE.
Now watch as his page hits drop and the amount of money he can charge per ad drops also. Then he can’t afford the over priced hosting service he is using and his site goes away. His last post will be some dramatic rant about how Open Source has ruined his website, but no one will be able to read it since he is blocking them.
I can’t respond any better than #8. Right on Mr. Fusion.
Any company that blocks too many users is doomed.
You don’t need to be formally trained in marketing to get this.
So let me get this straight. They want me to use a browser I don’t like and not visit sites I like so I can get popup ads? Is there an extended warranty I can buy with that?
I agree with uteck, in #9
“His last post will be some dramatic rant about how … has ruined his website, but no one will be able to read it since he is blocking them.”
Free Internet? Since when, last time I checked I paid for my bandwidth, which is exactly the reason that I believe it should be illegal to spam and attach adds to many web sites.
Ah phoey on it all. I’ll just keep playing WoW!
LOL, LOL, LOL….
Hi I have a high traffic website, I block firefox users. Now I have a low traffic site AND I can’t sell ads on my site anymore… 🙁
My message to him, stop caring foo.
But if the IE audience is large enough, and his site is worthwhile, then he will continue to get visitors. The fact that he lost 60% doesn’t matter since that doesn’t mean he will lose 60% of his ad revenue.
In fact Microosft does this all the time, making their pages IE only.
The ironic thing is that adblock plus is completely detectable.
Whats ironic is this doenst effect Opera users
nya nya!!! 😛
Hell dilligaf
Or you could use Firefox with user agent switcher and make his site think your a googlebot and nobody blocks Google right :p
“Digg users who don’t click on these ads are stealing bandwidth”
Now this guy has gone further. He once seemed to say that users were obligated to see the ads. Now he is saying that not only are we obligated to see the ads but also click on them!