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Adblock Plus Can Now Be Rolled Out To Every Single Employee In a Company

Posted by timothy on from the sooner-the-better dept.

New submitter Mickeycaskill writes: Adblock Plus adds large scale deployment (LSD) to version 1.9 of its software, allowing IT managers to block adverts on thousands of computers in one go, months after a German court ruled the practice was legal. The move is likely to concern online publishers who rely on advertising to generate revenue.

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  1. It's not the adverts in themselves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but the fact that you smear them all over my face, and that I can't connect to just YOUR website, but I effectively connect to fifteen OTHER sites to download scripts, just to make YOUR website run correctly. I use Ghostery and Ad-Block not because I am against advertising, but because I want a leaner and more tolerable web.

    I understand the web is more complex today than a decade ago, but there MUST be a way to make today's websites better in these regards.

    1. Re:It's not the adverts in themselves by DickBreath · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think advertisers SHOULD NOT BE RUNNING CODE on my computer.

      If you must show me an ad, that's one thing. To ask to run code on my computer is quite something else. Malware has been spread through ad networks, and I promise you it will be again. And again.

      Advertisers have only themselves to blame that people block ads. At first web ads were more than tolerable. I was happy to see them, knowing they paid the bills. Then it got worse. And worse. Sites started having tiny bits of content surrounded by ads and you had to click the Next button twenty times to read a ten paragraph article that turns out to be devoid of real information. And other things I could go on about.

      Online publishers ought to be careful of the ad networks they get into bed with. Those ad networks should be careful about the actual advertisers. Some of these ads are outright deceptive -- trying to imitate the look of a dialog box on a certain widely used OS. That kind of clever behavior turns out to be bad for ALL advertisers in the long run.

      I did say I actually liked the idea that ads paid the bill in the early days. Now I view ads as a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Many of the advertisers have absolutely no sense of shame or restraint. They would tattoo advertisements to the insides of our eyelids if they could. Yes, really.

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      I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
  2. Re:I get that ads are nessesary for websites... by grimmjeeper · · Score: 5, Funny

    The few bad apples in the basket resulted in us throwing the entire basket out of the window.

    Yeah, it's sad that 95% of the ads out there had to ruin it for the rest of them. ;)