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Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites
Dotnaught writes "Wladimir Palant, maker of the Firefox extension Adblock Plus, on Monday proposed a change in his software that would allow publishers, with the consent of Adblock Plus users, to prevent their ads from being blocked. Palant suggested altering his software to recognize a specific meta tag as a signal to bring up an in-line dialog box noting the site publisher's desire to prevent ad blocking. The user would then have to choose to respect that wish or not."
And just install "NagBlock Plus".
Well, maybe there's someone with a shotgun standing behind his chair requiring him to put the ads there. This way, he'll still put the ad in, but people won't have to see it if they've downloaded a Firefox plugin. Unless, of course, the guy with the shotgun knows about the tag too. Then we'll need another newer tag.
"I'm fine with that, as long as there's a setting to control whether or not to honor the flag."
If you don't honor that flag, you night as well be burnin' it, and mister, that's just unamerican.
How many adwriters fought and died for that flag? Who will tell the sons and daughters of this great nation the heroic stories of our pop-up heritage? Will the anthems still ring across the wiggling fields of flash and the home of the blink? WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, SIR?
Why not sending first a Pop-Up on the publisher's computer to ask whether he is certain he wants to advertise?!?
You look like spam.
You look like spam.
But I taste like chicken.
Yo dawg, I put a blocker in your blocker so you can block while you're blocking.
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Personally I don't mind ads on sites if they are non-intrusive
As long as advertisements provide free porn samples I don't mind looking at ads. I hope there is a tag that can be used to white list porn ads. Even if they are selling something like Charmin toilet paper, or even paint remover, I will watch the ad as long as there are naked woman in it.
How many adwriters fought and died for that flag?
Not enough. Not nearly enough.
You can't take the sky from me...
Except that, if you read the proposal, you'll notice this section:
Adblock Plus will then check the browsing history to see whether the user frequents this site (this could be specified for example as âoevisited the site on three days of the last weekâ) and then display a notification
So you'd only get annoyed once on the sites you revisit.
AKA yet something else tracking my surfing habits? WEEEE! Call me paranoid, but I'll not upgrade or wait for a fork
Yep, believe it or not, your browsing history stores your browsing history.
Yeah, please update your Google.
That sounds like a fair goal. However, may I suggest Wladimir creates a new extension, say, AdBlock Minus, that will help those people who kind of do not want, but you know, just may sometime, but don't know how to do it.
-dZ.
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