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Only Thieves Block Pop-Ups

Posted by timothy on from the betting-pool-for-workaround dept.

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...)"

4 of 1,191 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Just fine by me by Daveman692 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My thoughts exactly.

  2. Well ain't this brilliant... by DreadfulGrape · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...just install the handy anti-popup-blocker code, and people will stay away from your website in droves. Gee, sign me up.

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  3. Warning: Can't connect to MySQL by KPU · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All I get is an error message. It appears that I can't get in with or without ad blocking proxies :-).

  4. Faster and cleaner by westphalia999 · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I've found the web to be a much better place since using mozilla. Another great thing is my 1800 line hosts file which redirects the majority of ad servers to 127.0.0.1. Now, that seems like the simple and easy way to do it, but is there any way to get statistics on how many ads I'm missing and how much bandwidth I'm saving or am I better off not knowing?

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