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Only Thieves Block Pop-Ups
aurelian writes "It's official: using browsing the web while blocking pop-up ads and other such exciting website enhancements is theft. Anti-leech.com are offering to protect your site from browsers blocking pop-ups (or 'theft tools' as they call them) - just try stealing from them with your favourite pop-up free browser. (I picked this up on the phoenix discussion forum...)"
WRONG!
Animated GIFs and Macromedia flash advertisements take TIME to load on my very limited bandwidth (26600). Yes, I know, dial-up connections SUCK big time. I removed macromedia flash from my Mac OS X (10.1.5) by digging around in the System folder, and no, it's not located in the User folders. Animated GIFs and flash crap take TOO long to load in. If a site I frequent wants to load in text only advertisements in a dedicated column, area, portion of the web page, I'm cool with that, but will absolutely NOT, NEVER EVER view animated bullshit on my screen. Mozilla is a God-send when configured to block popup bullshit and selective image blocking from certain servers. As soon as these advertising idiots get a clue that MY TIME is more precious than wasting it on stupid tricks to distract my attention, then I'll be a little more forgiving of the websites that advertise.
Besides, who else here thinks the average Joe, Aunt Sue, or Grandma can figure out how to block popups?
FYI: I don't go to websites where popup advertisements run amok. But then again the way I have Mozilla configured, I would NEVER know if a website did use popups.
The problem with the web nowadays is that it's become too commercialized. All I want to see is plain old text, reading it at 100 mph. Businesses expect and demand that customers view advertisements. If they can't remain in business without adverisements, then that business NEVER offered much of ANYTHING worth significant value to anyone and doesn't deserve to remina in business. Of course, they can always have a webpage that demands $19.95 to show me what wares or services they sell. And we all know how far that idea will go.
I have to pay for bandwidth to see your fucking ad; i guess that means i have the right ot be paid for looking at your fuckig ad which i didn't request to look at to begin with.. you know there was a time when intrusive (spyware) advertising didn't exist and ads themselves were subverted and the content drove the web and drove the #'s that brought the .com goldrushers which have bankrupted the web of both useful content and the driving reason for it's popularity to begin with
i for one read less than 5 websites on a reglar basis now as a result, there is nothign but peoples vain web logs and guestbooks anymore to be interested in.. anyway the point being that unlike cable, where you pay fo ra stream of available channels, many people are still paying hourly for internet access and your lame ads cost all of us money (yes even fractions of pennies to us cable modem users ad up, just ask banks where they get their money from) and you DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE ME VIEW your shitty worthless bandwidth wasting ad..
how's that for some greek fire you unreasonable troll.