Clearly you don't care about being a burden on society either. Luckily for you there are people like me who will share the burden you place on society.
If you don't want to visit websites that don't have ads, then don't do it. Start support for a Firefox plugin that doesn't load domains that are ad-supported.
Using ad-blocker is simply stealing. And yes I do call it stealing because you are incurring a cost on the content provider without compensating them. Its no different from stealing at a store with poor security.
They gain the ability to skip ads at the price of having to watch the television show at a later date.
Just because I sometimes want a less-intrusive browsing experience does not make me a leech.
Actually it does. Just like in torrenting, if you seed one torrent forever but refuse to seed any other torrents you use, your leeching.
I have no problem paying for stuff, and contribute to free projects, donate to Wikipedia etc.
Then why not contact extremetech and ask them how much your blocking the ads cost them and send them that amount? If you're willing to pay for an ad-less internet, why not actually pay for it?
There's been lots of reputed claims that a human has been cloned, but no proof has ever been provided. I'd say we develop the technology using samples from the living before we start digging up graves.
Agreed. I don't subscribe to FFXI, however I have played a free demo and I would consider subscribing in the future. The main barriers for me are: 1) I've got 16 games (on the PSX, PS2 and DS) I want to finish. As such paying a monthly subscription for ANOTHER game is difficult to justify. 2) Its pretty expensive for Australians who have to pay American prices.
However anything that continues to breath new life into FFXI and keeps the servers online increases the chances I'll subscribe to it sometime in the future.
So I'm glad to hear they're doing new things with FFXI to keep it fresh.
When the US president says something insightful (or just anything) our prime minister says something like way to go, GB and thus our international relations are forged.
I thought Rudd didn't really like Bush all that much?
The vast majority of Australians think the Internet needs filtering.
Citation needed. Because as an Australian the only time I hear about internet filtering is here at slashdot. I'd be surprised if the vast majority of Australians know about the government's plans, let alone have an opinion on them.
We heard that sort of argument before. All blacks were allowed to marry blacks, and all whites were allowed to marry whites. We saw through it last time, as I hope we'll see through it this time.
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Clearly you don't care about being a burden on society either. Luckily for you there are people like me who will share the burden you place on society.
If you don't want to visit websites that don't have ads, then don't do it. Start support for a Firefox plugin that doesn't load domains that are ad-supported.
Using ad-blocker is simply stealing. And yes I do call it stealing because you are incurring a cost on the content provider without compensating them. Its no different from stealing at a store with poor security.
How about people who use TIVO?
They gain the ability to skip ads at the price of having to watch the television show at a later date.
Just because I sometimes want a less-intrusive browsing experience does not make me a leech.
Actually it does. Just like in torrenting, if you seed one torrent forever but refuse to seed any other torrents you use, your leeching.
I have no problem paying for stuff, and contribute to free projects, donate to Wikipedia etc.
Then why not contact extremetech and ask them how much your blocking the ads cost them and send them that amount? If you're willing to pay for an ad-less internet, why not actually pay for it?
There's been lots of reputed claims that a human has been cloned, but no proof has ever been provided. I'd say we develop the technology using samples from the living before we start digging up graves.
Besides which we can't even clone a sheep safely.
In the real world, I'll be sticking with Firefox, with Ad blockers
You are a leech on the rest of society. I hope you get the bad karma you so richly deserve.
Which ones were in the category of spyware? Because I can only think of one myself.
This is silly.
Agreed. I don't subscribe to FFXI, however I have played a free demo and I would consider subscribing in the future. The main barriers for me are:
1) I've got 16 games (on the PSX, PS2 and DS) I want to finish. As such paying a monthly subscription for ANOTHER game is difficult to justify.
2) Its pretty expensive for Australians who have to pay American prices.
However anything that continues to breath new life into FFXI and keeps the servers online increases the chances I'll subscribe to it sometime in the future.
So I'm glad to hear they're doing new things with FFXI to keep it fresh.
Merlin comments on the validity of your description, but regardless how would HTTPS change that?
So a man in the middle would decompile the program, change the address it goes to, then recompile it, and that's going to be stopped if it used HTTPS?
I do realise man-in-the-middle attacks are possible. But what you described certainly isn't one.
You sir are a leech on society and I will certainly shun you and your kind.
Why? As long as I'm warned that my data will be sold, why not have it available to the highest bidder?
Of course it matters. All these people will be buying computers with spyware installed and not know it.
I thought this was illegal?
I am sure that Ads being blocked in pretty much every FF out there can't be making them too happy.
Isn't blocked in mine. If I want to use a website, I'll load the ads. If I don't want to load the ads, I won't use the website.
Its just like with torrenting. It sucks to be a leech. And that's what you are when you block ads.
Have you seen my name?
Have you seen the rubbish the rest of the world is producing?
I don't know about America, but here in Australia its illegal to not pay for bathroom breaks.
So if the rest of the 1st world countries started rounding up the jews, should Australia do the same?
which often means not getting paid for bathroom breaks, etc.
Sounds like a good reason to leave the phone on when you're not at the desk.
And yet we have a government paid institution for athletes. Truly our country is fucked up.
When the US president says something insightful (or just anything) our prime minister says something like way to go, GB and thus our international relations are forged.
I thought Rudd didn't really like Bush all that much?
The vast majority of Australians think the Internet needs filtering.
Citation needed. Because as an Australian the only time I hear about internet filtering is here at slashdot. I'd be surprised if the vast majority of Australians know about the government's plans, let alone have an opinion on them.
We heard that sort of argument before. All blacks were allowed to marry blacks, and all whites were allowed to marry whites. We saw through it last time, as I hope we'll see through it this time.
Wait, what's wrong with heath ledger?
But they did change it immediately :P