Comments on: Adblock - love it or hate it?

By: SW

SW — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:35:18 +0000

I’m one of those surfers who stumbled upon your site when googling for some articles on what developers actually think of AdBlock.

Personally, I’m a huge fan. I hate ads, whether they’re on my TV, in my newspaper or on the Internet. As society gets more and more digitalised, I can see a future where capitalism, through its technological advances shoots itself in the foot.

It’s pretty much happening already, but imagine a future where filter-based ad screening can also be applied to your TV, to text ads in Gmail, to your (digital) newspaper, and so on. Soon, we’ll only have to put up with it in the Luas!

By: Christofer C. Bell

Christofer C. Bell — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:32:33 +0000

I don’t mind advertising on webpages, and I honestly do understand the concerns along the lines of “if you want free content, then look at my ads.” However, advertising on the web has been so incredibly distracting visually that my overall experience is ruined. When I am reading CNN.com, the last thing I want to see are dancing space aliens or a man riding a giant spider. If the advertisements are professional looking, I don’t mind disabling AdBlock, but as long as the most intrusive ads remain the amateurish trash they are, AdBlock remains.

Good advertising attracts my business, likewise, it’s appropriate that poor advertising loses my business.

By: ezekiel

ezekiel — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:29:56 +0000

i think who created adblock is actually wanna wipe out this free content internet web service provided by world-wide webmasters.. if webmasters dont earn a cent from their website do you think in the future we still have free web content or any free web services like myspace and friendster ..etc. firefox thinks that he is so wise. actually firefox is a real dumb as* when no more free web servic and free content everyone stop using web then automatically no one will ever need firefox again the f*cking brilliant firefox will just die too.. i hope firefox will die coz firefox is another evil just same like google.

By: Joan Ramirez

Joan Ramirez — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:49:13 +0000

I have a website in geocities.com, and Ads are a big promblem for my users because they can’t see my pages correctly.With Firefox AdBlockPlus EasyList my users does not have problems anymore, I love AdBlock Plus!

(sorry for my bad english)

By: Adblock, Good or Evil? at Sean’s Blog

Adblock, Good or Evil? at Sean’s Blog — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:53:48 +0000

[...] block ad’s with the Adblock extension. Tom Raftery has made a post about his thoughts on it here. As a blogger, who has ZERO ads on his website, I’m Pro-Adblock, even when I did have [...]

By: anthonymcg.com » Blog Archive » The Adblock debate

anthonymcg.com » Blog Archive » The Adblock debate — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:54:27 +0000

[...] Raftery has written about certain site owners blocking Firefox completely as a plugin called Adblock can be installed which saves the user from viewing ads. I agree with him [...]

By: Milan

Milan — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:12:39 +0000

Along with Quicksilver and having a mousewheel click configured to show all windows in Expose, AdBlock is one of the things I miss most when using computers other than my own.

By: BeachBum

BeachBum — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:58:17 +0000

in IE if you disable all javascript you can block most ads as well. I prefer to see ads, just because you never know if there will be a good one. But I understand that some prefer the privacy offered by blocking ads that track users.

BeachBum