Re: The (il) legality of blocking ads

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mers2 Premium,MVM join:2004-03-20 USA kudos:8 Reviews: ·AT&T U-Verse	reply to EGeezer Re: The (il) legality of blocking ads They can litigate to their hearts content, but they will lose even more money in the long run. I'm sure that many will contribute to or provide legal service pro bono for authors of such add ons like AdBlock Plus. Plus there are many alternative methods for blocking ads like host files. Had the publishers and marketing folks not made ads so in your face and obnoxious they wouldn't be in this position. And that's not even mentioning the malware included in the ads these days. It's a lose/lose proposition for publishers/marketers if they chose to go the litigation path. -- Team Discovery
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DownTheShore Just Say No To Newts Premium join:2003-12-02 Beautiful NJ kudos:10	said by mers2: Had the publishers and marketing folks not made ads so in your face and obnoxious they wouldn't be in this position. And that's not even mentioning the malware included in the ads these days. I agree. I'm relatively easy-going. I watch commercials on TV and listen to them on the radio. I'm not the type to edit out commercial on the things I record. Online ads never really used to bother me, but then they started popping up all over the screen and wouldn't go away even when I clicked on the "x", or were flashing rapidly enough to trigger seizures in epileptics, or started flying across my screen at random times, or filling up the majority of the screen, or popping up whenever my mouse happened to cross a certain word, and I just said enough's enough and started using the software to block them. As far as I'm concerned, the advertisers brought it on themselves by being so aggressive and obnoxious. -- Life is simply one damned thing after another.
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