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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option
Many readers have submitted news of a week-old announcement from Wladimir Palant, creator of Adblock Plus, about a change to the addon that will allow unobtrusive ads to be displayed. The change has been controversial because most people who run the addon strongly dislike seeing any ads. Palant hastens to point out that this is a toggle-able option, and by changing one setting, users can resume ad-less website viewing. Many are upset, however, that the setting defaults to allowing the display of "acceptable" advertisements. The description of "acceptable" ads includes the following criteria: "Static advertisements only (no animations, sounds or similar); Preferably text only, no attention-grabbing images; At most one script that will delay page load (in particular, only a single DNS request)."
I guess thats why all open source software, websites like wikipedia, are ad supported. Oh wait, they are not.
Advertising is a sick cancer on the mind. ALL advertising should be banned, and we should move to an unbiased review model of product promotion.
It is not my problem if you don't want to fundraise to keep your site afloat. Thats how the millions of non profits in the world survive. That my eyes should be ejaculated on by the sticky putrid spawn of the nazi's and edward fucking bernays, I will NOT take as a given, to state matter-of-factly as you have above.
Advertising causes need. Need therapy...
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
Yes! I hate noisy tabs/ads, I usually use noscript, but if I've allowed a site, sometimes a noisy ad will start. I wonder if there's an extension to have sound-making tabs light up with a coloured speaker icon!