Anti-Adblock Killer extension prevents sites from blocking your ad-blocker

[itsmebrian]

I don't want to be tracked or served ads on the internet, TV, or radio. PERIOD. I don't care if all these sites and companies go out of business or their employees starve to death. I will never look at ads on the internet or on TV no matter what reasoning they try to use to justify them. If they can't find a business model that makes money without bombarding their users with ads then maybe they shouldn't be in the business at all.

That's about the most absurd response to ads I have ever seen. They are not selling a physical product, therefore alternatives are either a subscription based model or an ad based model. I know that I couldn't afford to pay for subscriptions to every site I visit. So I allow for unobtrusive advertisements while blocking all of the tracking cookies and the "in your face" ads.

This goes to show where the entitled generation is going. You must give it to me for free while ensuring that all of your employees are well taken care of....

 

[Darth Shiv]

Great for webmasters. Abblockers just killing websites. More efforts are needed for this

The post was for the other way around. Anti-anti-adblocker.

That's about the most absurd response to ads I have ever seen. They are not selling a physical product, therefore alternatives are either a subscription based model or an ad based model. I know that I couldn't afford to pay for subscriptions to every site I visit. So I allow for unobtrusive advertisements while blocking all of the tracking cookies and the "in your face" ads.

Alternatively we could use a different ad delivery system. One that has a higher level of inherent trust. Adblockers wouldn't work on ads that the web host hosted and embedded themselves for example.

 

[izzzy]

actually the users will lose, since they will not be ble to receive free content and will have to pay for it.

Exactly. Ad blocking can only defeat itself, never win. It will either become useless, because of technological measures that counter it, or because all ad-supported sites will go out of business or switch to a subscription model. In either case ad blocking will become pointless, and ultimately users will have to pay a higher price for content than what they had prior to the rise of ad blockers.

WRONG! Here is what you people fail to realize. Your crap isn't that important. And the more crap is forced on people the more they will lose interest. Nobody has the right to force anything on anyone. Ad blockers only exist because people don't want to see ads. The majority rules, and the majority of people do not like ads, period. The t.v. networks sued dish over the hopper because it allowed bypassing commercials. Their reasoning? It was illegal for people to bypass commercials! They lost!

Demand will always spawn opportunity. If I created a commercial free service tomorrow, how many of these crap cable companies would lose customers to me? People have a right to pay for the services they want. These big corporations are like big huge hypocritical bitches who whine and cry anytime someone tries to regulate their businesses model, and they claim it as a right. They don't like to be forced to do anything, and yet they don't care that they do it. Why? Cause it's all about money.

Well guess what. People have a right to make money, and there is big money in finding ways to shake bad businesses who rip people off and invade privacy. People are not happy over paying crybaby bitches for bad services. Monopolies are illegal, and so the right to make money extends to everyone. People have the right to do business whomever they want, and they always choose the option of freedom over restraint. Anyone can create an internet service that bans ads and the people can choose for themselves.

I'm curious, how do you feel spending money on bad services? If you have ever felt like you should get what you pay for, then your hypocrite. If you ever find yourself in the middle of nowhere having to use a bathroom, I hope your forced to sit thru a 30 minute sales pitch for crap products. I don't no about anyone else, but for me, forced ads have the opposite effect. I refuse to buy crap from anyone that has to try and force their crappy products on me. And you can bet its always crap when it has to be forced on you. It's shady businesses run by bottom feeders that will lose. Do you like telemarketers? Leave your number and I'll be sure they get it. Or do you feel you have a right not to be bothered at home? lol.

 

[izzzy]

But since this topic is still open, I would like to share a thought if you will. Something I believe these freedom hating bottom feeders may want to start considering. Especially the gestapo advertisers who use deceitful tactics to track habits and invade privacy, whilst overly concerned about their own rights & privacy, like "trade secrets & copyright infringement".

From a legal perspective, I believe the door swings both ways. Since there are many people using the internet for online business, it seems that the tracking of ones habits could be a violation of ones business "trade secrets". In the corporate world, I believe the term would be "espionage" or "spying". For example, Kentucky Fried Chicken has a secret recipe. If one were to spy and track their every movement, KFC could, and would, sue the **** out of them. And they would win! Because spying on ones inner business workings is in fact considered an infringement. The legality goes straight to the heart of ones techniques. How someone conducts their own business is a fundamental business right, and corporate scum seems to believe in that very fact as well. They sue all the time over that very issue. Just ask Jamie Dimon about his concerns over corporate espionage and watch his reaction. Then bring up how amazingly lucky he was with taking over "WAMU" to see the blood drain from his face. He knows my thoughts and opinions personally. "Yeah.. I still have Pandora's Box concerning those REMIC Trusts, dirty bastard "

The point is, it's only matter of time before people realize I have a point. And it's one that I believe should be taken seriously. Legally speaking of course. And spying on other people should always be of legal concern. Especially if it is to you and your a bottom feeding corporation.

 

[FF222]

..

Woooosh. Right over your head.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Woooosh. Right over your head.

Now I remember why you are on my ignore list.

 

[JeromeFree]

WRONG! Here is what you people fail to realize. Your crap isn't that important. And the more crap is forced on people the more they will lose interest. Nobody has the right to force anything on anyone. Ad blockers only exist because people don't want to see ads. The majority rules, and the majority of people do not like ads, period. The t.v. networks sued dish over the hopper because it allowed bypassing commercials. Their reasoning? It was illegal for people to bypass commercials! They lost!

Demand will always spawn opportunity. If I created a commercial free service tomorrow, how many of these crap cable companies would lose customers to me? People have a right to pay for the services they want. These big corporations are like big huge hypocritical bitches who whine and cry anytime someone tries to regulate their businesses model, and they claim it as a right. They don't like to be forced to do anything, and yet they don't care that they do it. Why? Cause it's all about money.

Well guess what. People have a right to make money, and there is big money in finding ways to shake bad businesses who rip people off and invade privacy. People are not happy over paying crybaby bitches for bad services. Monopolies are illegal, and so the right to make money extends to everyone. People have the right to do business whomever they want, and they always choose the option of freedom over restraint. Anyone can create an internet service that bans ads and the people can choose for themselves.

I'm curious, how do you feel spending money on bad services? If you have ever felt like you should get what you pay for, then your hypocrite. If you ever find yourself in the middle of nowhere having to use a bathroom, I hope your forced to sit thru a 30 minute sales pitch for crap products. I don't no about anyone else, but for me, forced ads have the opposite effect. I refuse to buy crap from anyone that has to try and force their crappy products on me. And you can bet its always crap when it has to be forced on you. It's shady businesses run by bottom feeders that will lose. Do you like telemarketers? Leave your number and I'll be sure they get it. Or do you feel you have a right not to be bothered at home? lol.

I think there is something you are missing. If publishers can't earn from their websites then they will close their websites and the content will be gone. How do you want them to keep earning while giving free content to users?