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Adblock Plus Blocked From Attending Online Ad Industry's Big Annual Conference (arstechnica.co.uk)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-stay-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Adblock Plus has been uninvited to the upcoming IAB Leadership Summit and is having its registration fee refunded. The company was informed of the cancellation in an email with little explanation. A company blog post reads in part: "Unfortunately, the top brass at the US IAB don't want us coming to their Leadership Summit next week in Palm Desert, California. We attended last year, and we signed up again for their 2016 meeting including paying the hefty entrance fee. We were fully confirmed and they even listed us on their website as a participant. Then this week we got one of those sudden emails that land in your inbox innocently, then floor you with something weird, unbelievable or ridiculous when you click on them. This one came from an unfamiliar IAB address, and it informed us that our registration for the summit was canceled and our fee refunded."

7 of 442 comments (clear)

  1. What was the subject line in the email? by sehlat · · Score: 5, Funny

    "La la la la la la la I can't hear you!"?

    1. Re:What was the subject line in the email? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      This one came from an unfamiliar IAB address

      From: apk@iab.com

    2. Re:What was the subject line in the email? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      LOL. APK has also been discouraged from attending this conference (indeed, any conference or gathering of more than two people) for years, due to his aggressive attitude towards, um, advertisements.

    3. Re:What was the subject line in the email? by flopsquad · · Score: 4, Funny

      No reason to poke him if he's not spamming.

      Indeed, these people know not the forces with which they meddle.

      I bet they don't even realize that, like the dreaded Candyman, if you say "APK" five times at the top of a Slashdot thread, he will appear in your HOSTS file and can never be deleted.

      The only way to get rid of him is sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / and then pull out the hard disk and burn it on a pyre of sage and thermite.

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      Nothing posted to /. has ever been legal advice, including this.
  2. simple explanation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they have adblockblock installed.

  3. Looks like... by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...they got ad blocked.

    YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!

  4. Was the conference in Russia? by Wolfger · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because in Russia, ads block you!

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    Nothing to see here. Move along.