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DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers
An anonymous reader writes "The end of free Internet content will come when Web browsers start blocking online advertisements by default, a DoubleClick executive has warned. Bennie Smith, the online advertising network's privacy chief, said the popularity of tools like Adblock -- an extension to the Mozilla Firefox browser -- which makes blocking online ads simple was tied to 'a negative vibe against advertising in general'."
Your Flash ads make my scrotum tingle, you cockbaiting fuckfools at DoubleClick! Oh, and they consume too much of my bandwidth. And they don't contribute to the content of the page.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
nope! the end of free web content.
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Your failed business model is not my problem.
If ads don't work, or aren't viable, then you have to change or die.
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You were making an argument and basing it on emulating /. If you plan on doing that, then do not give me such answer as "i think you must not know what Usenet is."
/.) is insane. So what do all of these things have in common----they cost MONEY!
Also, many people will not go near usenet - your site will be less popular.
While all those software programs are free - the time to make the code is not free. The maintenance is not free. The bandwidth you propose on using (to emulate something like
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
In my local bowling alley (Star City, Birmingham) they have TV screens that you actually piss on.
That's awesome. Hopefully they'll have beer commercials with scantily clad hotties in them for you to piss on.
Hey wait, does R Kelly own that advertising company?
What about those cookies that auto-load everytime you start your browser and immediately reference your browser to their site? (IE, nor Mozilla, nor ANY OTHER *COMPETENT AND KNOWLEDGEABLE* browser is impervious to this if it's fucking allowed, just like the Flash and Javascript sandboxes can have read/write acces to your own fucking harddrive, if so competently programmed.)
/.'ers dont' visit pr0n sites? That's what I thought, at least 85% of you do.) set to immediately open my browser to another page that forces more crap onto your computer upon loadup. (I keep saying Mozilla is not perfect and has it's own flaws, three of which I've exploited, reported, and had ignored, and guess what? I'm still fucking people opver since they're ignoring it, at the rate of 50+ people per day.)
I've had ONE cookie from a pr0n site (How many
Cookies, as you so blindly put it, "HELP TO KEEP TRACK OF STATE ACROSS PAGES" which means I could program a cookie to open a nwe site once you re-login to my site where the cookie originated from. Do you fail to understand the versatility of a wide-open and commonly-exploited web programming language? Even PHP could be written to fuck your computer over. It just takes a matter of time before someone with the brains and insight to figure it out and exploit it.
And no blocking plug-in is 100% accurate or reliable. Your'e going to come across some site... or maybe bittorrent file, or some other extension your browsers does/does-not require you to have, and you're going to end up with crap on your ssytem. Firewall? Gotta know about it and program it to block that stuff first off. And I can guarantee you don't know 100% of the net. You're still at risk, regardless.
Mod me troll, if you want to. I'm speaking from personal, tested, and IT Magazine documented experience. Take it how you will.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.