| reply to Sircolby45
Re: How are they gonna know? MySpace does prohibit ad-blocking when viewing profiles just blocking the ads with html or css coding on your personal myspace site. Viewers can block but designers of their pages are not supposed to do so.
However, a lot of MySpace ads are definitely spyware or false advertising (free becomes text to cell number and get a charge). Of course, advertising all kinds of products on personal MySpace is a violation of TOS but don't see MySpace enforcing it unless it is sex-related.
I personally don't see how legally ad-blocking could be construed by the courts as being illegal. Stealing content is illegal but not blocking anoying ads. Internet explorer already blocks pop-up or pop-under ads. Is that illegal? No.
Maybe advertisers should stop using flash, which is known to have malware or spyware. I don't block text ads just flash ads. To me, Google is smart just putting non-anoying text ads along search results since some are useful. The flash ads, especially with music or somebody talking or other noises, are just anoying. Unless it is a major site, I block WMV too. Viruses come with those too.
Advertisers are going to have a tough time proving illegal vs. legitimate blocking of spyware/malware. Ad-blockers should just ad that language to their products (it blocks ads that are probably spyware or malware) and advertisers have no argument. Consumers shouldn't have to "open" their computer to viruses, spyware, and malware just because some advertiser's stupid ad isn't getting viewed because they are using the most common forms of causing such infections.
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