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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...)"
changing the channel when a commercial break starts is a major fellony too!
"The majority is always sane, Louis." -- Nessus
http://slashdot.jp
...we'll all slashdot the site, and we won't have to worry about idiots like them anymore.
Oh my. We're going to have to improve pop-up stoppers to defeat this technology.
Well, I'd better free up 45-50 minutes for coding sometime in the next week.
Why be shy. Blocking ads should should be considered terrorism. We need an amendment to the patriot bill.
showing pictures of naked, shaved pussy.
Why don't we just replace the outdated WWW with X clients, and make eveyone run X servers? That way, web sites can draw whatever they want on your display. It would really eliminate all this slow javscript and HTML which requires a huge browser to interpret and render. Isn't mark-up just a kludge (tell a browser how to render pages), when you can simply render the pages directly? X is a much cleaner solution, IMHO.
What does that do!?? I deactivated javascript and entered, nothing special happened.. and i didn't get any popups, etc... ;-)
Some people have a lot of time to waste.
I think it would be more effective if the message it gave was this.
This was quite a shocker for me...
Just follow the day, and reach fo
Now there is something that will alert me when a website is no longer worth visiting. Thank you, Anti-Leech Dot Com! I am sure your IPO will net you hundreds of dollars.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
That link is to an article about some man that had sex with a goat.
And how about foolishly allowing people to alter the URL and change the message? How stupid is that?
Oakbox
Not just answers, the correct questions.
Thats what I say! I think last time I pointed that out I got modded down to troll.
X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).
For a more amusing and accurate description of their opinion on ad-blocking browsers, check out this informative access denied page.
Blocked by Anti-Leech.com
Aaron
AaronCameron.net
No, something more like this :-)
Hi,
You offer a much-needed service. As a future enhancement, you might consider simply releasing a list of your clients, so i can avoid attemtpting to view their pages altogether. I'd be more than willing to wwork on things on the server side to redirect free-loading http requests from a popup-blocker to a similar site which does not block access via your service.
Please let me know if you would like to collaborate, I'm offering my services for free, and I'll be sure to forward this same offer to any of your clients I come across, to prevent them from having to handle unneccessary traffic. In fact, it would probably be worthwhile for me to start collecting a list of your clients myself and making them available, along with lists of alternate sites with similar content. Please let me know if you'd like to help, as it should make your job a lot easier. If we can redirect all traffic from your client sites, you shouldn't have to worry much at all about blocking free-loaders. Thanks,
Henry Quinn
Brooklyn NY
god is just pretend.
The solution to all this blocking is obvious: advertising in each packet. I can see it now...
This packet brought to you by the letters I and P, and the number 4.
Ewen
How long before the internet basically turns into interactive television, with annoying, randomly timed advertisements...
Enjoy COKE! The refreshing flavor of Coca Cola is just what you need right NOW!
Just a thought...
This failed attempt to access your computer through port 80 was brought you by C0C4 C014. Always C0C4 C014!
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
"Remember when the web was actually about content?
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Actually, no. I just remember 19 year old assholes with no knowledge becoming paper millionaires. I think one of them just rang up my bill at the convenience store.
I was curious enough to try anti-leech.com, with an unexpected yet illuminating result.
Load the page in Mozilla with "Open Unrequested Windows" disabled, and get a short message saying I'm not allowed to view the page b/c I'm using a pop-up blocker.
I disable Mozilla's popup blocker and load the page again. This time I get the anti-leech.com home page, along with the expected pop-up ad. Lo and behold, the popup ad is advertising Cable TV Descramblers.
So let me get this straight. They want me to stop stealing from them by using a popup blocker so they can try to sell me a way to steal from cable companies using a descrambler.
uhmmm, riiiiight. If you're going to be a hypocrit, at least try to be clever about it.
Flying is easy, just throw yourself at the ground and miss. -Douglas Adams
LOL! While I suffered at the hands of the dot com bust, it is rather amusing to see these paper millionaries that were on CNBC be touted as the future of business now slinging waffles at Dennys.
Run the Anti-Leech security tester on "your site" - www.anti-leech.com
then see all the source and links that are visible, and howly poorly written "your site" is.
Moderation Totals: Flamebait=2, Troll=1, Redundant=1, Insightful=6, Overrated=1, Underrated=1, Total=12. (not mine)
Is this what it's supposed to say?
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
I'm a fucker for pointing this out, but somebody would've figured it out anyway. look.
Be careful, kids. Get Phoenix and block images on a per-domain basis today!
Ha ha ha
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
That's a pity... You won't get to see the pop-up that I did on their server, asking me if I knew that owning a cable descrambler wasn't illegal.
Best laugh I had all day...
You're right, this is fun!
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Motorists not staring at billboards for a full ten seconds are now considered thieves, and will be prosecuted accordingly. Time to invest in Geico...
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
The amusing thing is that also advertised on the SAME PAGE as the "anti-theft" programme is an anti-spam program which supposedly blocks spam, and removes ads from email...
Don't you just love hypocrisy in action??
Man, you just fell for the oldest trick in the /. book. :)
slashdot!=valid HTML
Because its the new law. You'd look pretty stupid with a drivers license and no car, and if you dont have a drivers license you're obviously terrorist scum.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
Mine was a little different. It went like this:
I use pop-up and cookie blocking in my browser. Am I a thief? You seem to think so, but I'd like you to say that in public, using my real name (Juan Carlos Castro y Castro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). I encourage you to say it as publicly and loudly as you can. (maybe a list of Known Thieves on your website, what about that?) No subterfuges, please. Say "XXX is a thief", with all letters. I'm kinda short on money, and a libel suit is as good a way to get some as any.