Why I use Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus is a great extension for the wonderful and growingly popular browser Firefox. If you don’t have Firefox plus get it and use it! If you don’t like ADs on the pages you view, you have a choice, you can control how you want to experience the Internet. This is much like watching TV, if you don’t like the commercials you can either change the channel or flip to another channel.
Well this post is all about http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/ because the author of this site is claiming Firefox’s Adblock is stripping him of income! You don’t need to visit, here is the general idea.
“The Mozilla Foundation and its Commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, has allowed and endorsed Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that blocks advertisement on web sites and also prevents site owners from blocking people using it. 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. Accessing the content while blocking the ads, therefore would be no less than stealing.”
That’s right it’s no less than stealing! stealing, humbug, etc etc, those whipper snappers. Oh no, should the owner of a site have to actually change to adapt to his/her readers! That is non-sense! This reminds me of my previous post, The DRM Dream is Over, because it is similar to the views of the Music Industry/Movie Industry/etc. It’s really like any business, you have to adapt to your customers or your customers will go somewhere else.
The first reason why I started to use Adblock Plus was those stupid ads with the smiley faces that yelled at you! I can block ads in my own mind thank you, just like I can when I am watching TV. When there is a commercial I space out till the commercial is over. I have no idea what the commercial was about and ADs are much like that.
So Adblock Plus saves my mind much processing power, so I can do more critical functions. Like blogging.
I really don’t like ADs, I think they cheapen the online experience. TV has ADs, radio has ADs, newspapers/magazines has ADs. Does a medium have to have ADs to be considered serious? I don’t think so.
Look at our media, here in the United States, they failed us with the war in Iraq. Bloggers have to be journalists now-a-days because our “news outlets” are failing. They are nothing more than puppets of politics or their corporate sponsors. See AT&T in Bush’s Pocket.
Blogging, independent journalists, is the future of the news, I think so. I think there will always be “news outlets”, but I don’t think they are sincere. Blogging is sincere and it doesn’t have a hidden agenda. Well most bloggers don’t have a hidden agenda.
I have sites that use Google Adsense as A source of revenue, and even I, am a big fan of Adblock
I think it really comes down to it, if your visitors want to click and visit external sites they will. If they don’t, they won’t. There’s no way getting around it.
Yes good point. The web isn’t a communist society you can’t control every little nuance. You can only control content and value-added advertisements. Things that make sense; like podcasts they promote a product that the listeners would like. I have no problem with value-added advertisements.
It really sucks when its 3am and your trying to be quite and one of those stupid smiley ads yell at you.
I’m downloading it now.
Exactly
I don’t think this is even a common fact that people do use AdBlock, and still everyone’s getting excited about lost of revenue.
Almost all bloggers may depend on ads. But some blogs, I can’t even read their content as there are very annoying ads all over the place just like in the old pop-ups day.
So I used adblock plus. I have talked about it in my blog last month too.
http://www.bridgetonova.com/2007/07/adblockplus-blogger-killer.html