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A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?
rarwes writes "A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and are therefor 'stealing money' from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: 'Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.' Be interesting to see where they are getting their numbers from.
Be interesting to see where they are getting their numbers from.
I'm not actually that interested in looking up their arses.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
I tried to look at the website but I can't. Any ideas?
Oh, wait...
I've already won my free iPod by clicking on the dancing monkey.
I don't need another one, thank you.
It's like how the newspaper companies force you to read the classifieds.
A blog about stuff.
Actually it's worse, it's not only like running out the store iwth a pair of jeans it's also dropping 6-7 caps in the arse of the old fart at the door and painting your gang sign across the glass as well.
blocking ad's is WORSE than downloading music, Tv shows or software.
Blocking ad's is MURDER!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
That page was written with Microsoft FrontPage 4.0, how "hardworking" could they be?
I consider my smells copyrighted and wearing a gas mask while being in my proximity is an infringement of my rights, as the smells are blocked. Please understand that this extreme measure is necessary, since the unique cacophony of smells usually causes nearby people to give me money to leave their vicinity - but those who would wear a gas mask aren't forced to do so. It's bad for business.
Did you know that "FTW" ("for the win") is a direct translation of "Sieg Heil"?
No I'm not!
Oh, wait -my bad. It's been so long, I forgot.
... you are a intelligent and not the sort of obvious retard we can fool into becoming a customer.
Ah, what the hell, we'll ask anyway, are you SURE you don't want to enlarge your penis?
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Marketing men have a twisted way of looking at things don't they? Blocking ads is theft??? I have to agree with Bill Hicks: "If you are in marketing - kill yourself. I'm not joking - kill yourself now!!"
"A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist" - Sir Humphrey Appleby
Luckily, I use _Firefox_. If you're going to do something so sad, at least get the name of the product right.
That is all I care about...lol Page seems to be down now...no matter the browser..
Right now the slashdot effect is more effective than any adblock extension :-)
Kevin Smith on Prince
>you might as well have gone into Jack Valenti's house and grabbed a vase off his mantle...
So we're stealing from the dead, too? OMG, that vase might have contained his ashes!
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
You bastard! ;-)
Method of processing duck feet
Every time you walk into a physical store and leave without buying anything is obviously theft as well. I mean, if everyone did that how would the store stay in business?
Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.
I hope nobody clicks here, here, here or here.
All those pictures would totally run up someone's bandwidth bill..
You evil, evil person. Do you have any idea the effect you're having on the american economy by not viewing the '510,000$ mortgage for $1491' ads? Or what about the 'Punch the Monkey and get a PS3' Not embracing these ideals that we can get something for almost nothing is completely un-American.
Bottom line? Be patriotic! Use IE 6! Punch the monkey! Take out a loan you can't afford!
I am not an expert. If I am misled in something, please correct me.
If it became popular for copyright-based businesses not to send large amounts of money to me for sitting around on a beach taking it easy, it would undermine my business model.
I don't know what they are talking about with Firefox users not buying stuff online. I just bought 4 copies of AutoCAD for Linux through an ad on a site I visited. It was only about $20.00 US. That is great, because nobody else seems to carry it, and the Windows versions are like a really expensive. I ordered the download version by credit card about 3 weeks ago, I haven't recieved the confirmation email with the download link yet, but the site looked respectable.
PS - Anybody know what the difference is between http and https is?
Neither is walking out of a store without making a purchase. It was (attempted) sarcasm. ;)
Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
Only the good stores :)
CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
Actually, by not visiting the site, you're not visiting the ads either, and therefore still stealing. I suggest you turn yourself in now.
Proud neuron in the Slashdot hivemind since 2002.
Initial test indicates they are not safe for driving if there are pedestrians carrying cans of Mountain Dew.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
... Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that blocks advertisement on web sites and also prevents site owners from blocking people using it. ... site owners install scripts that prevent people using ad blocking software from accessing their site. ... Ad Block Plus [does not let] individual site owners ... block people using their plug-in.
Hot DAMN! That's the best ad I've seen in years.
Gotta make this short so I can grab a copy of Ad Block Plus. B-)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Oh crap, is that in the PATRIOT (sic) Act?
A little off-topic...but we could develop ads for the NSA and Secret Service. BOMB BOMB BOMB COUNTRYWIDE 250,000 FOR JUST $750 A MONTH PRESIDENT PRESIDENT PRESIDENT SHOW YOUR NSA BADGE AND GET 20% OFF BARNES AND NOBLE THIS WEEKEND!
Intelligence spam. What a concept.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Ten to one says he fast forwards his Tivo through commercial.
Note to self: Stop putting jokes in my insightful comments so I can get something other than +1 Funny!
What's really ironic is that their own claims indicate that people who use firefox are more "net savvy", and that, conversely, people who don't are suckerbait for advertisers.
Kevin Smith on Prince
It occurred to me that instead of discriminating against Firefox users, webpage developers should work on incorporating product placements into their content. It's an old tactic but it still works. In fact that thought occurred to me just as I was about to light up and enjoy the smooth, mellow taste, of a Chesterfield cigarette. As I watched the smoke curl about I realized that relaxing with a Chesterfield is just the sort of break that a webpage developer needs to manage the day-to-day challenge of coming up with the content that sells those adds.
A pet store.
You walked right into that one.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
I agree. Please mod me up for no good reason, too.
Slow Down, Cowboy! It's been 60 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment.
I think you've interpreted this all wrong. I think that what these people are really saying is that by taking their beautiful work of HTML art and hiding all those cleverly placed >'s and <'s, and adding "colors" or applying "fonts" or any such other acts of vandalism are violations of his copyright by creating derivative works. Even by reading this right now using your web browser, you are violating my right as the artist to have you view my work of HTML in it's original raw text form. In fact, by displaying < instead of > in the above text, you have fundamentally altered my work and rob me of my law given right to force you to read my text as I wrote it. (Yes I uploaded this as HTML Formatted thank you very much. And that was an &, not an &)
By the way, you have to go look at this site too, now that you have read this comment. If you don't, you have created a derivative work without permission and I will have my lawyers contact you shortly.
By the way, would you like to know why your precious ad servers are blocked at our corporate proxy, listed right alongside things like myspace and horse porn? It is because they started generating so much traffic on our corporate WAN that the ads actually had a noticeable impact on overall intranet performance.
So, you're saying that like ads and myspace, horse porn was generating enough traffic on the corporate WAN to have a noticeable impact on performance?
Be patriotic! Use IE 6! Punch the monkey! Take out a loan you can't afford!
Vote Republican!
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Reality - Firefox is spelled F-i-r-e-f-o-x - only the first letter capitalized (i.e. not FireFox, not Foxfire, FoxFire or whatever else a number of folk seem to think it to be called.) The preferred abbreviation is "Fx" or "fx". Oh my god... how could I have been so blind? Guess it's back to IE for me!
--I'm so big, my sig has its own sig.
-- See?
What do you mean "firefox" I'm running IE 7.0 using windows 3.0 on a dual chip Pentium and only 64k of RAM!
Boy does it run great!
Good mozilla / firefox addon
User Agent Switcher 0.6.10 Homepage
by Chris Pederick
Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
hth
DP
"(I) have this unfortunate condition that causes me not to believe a single thing any politician says when a mic's on.