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I'm normally a very pro-blocker person but this story is shedding bad light on what is an important movement among Internet users in terms of protecting our inv

I'm normally a very pro-blocker person but this story is shedding bad light on what is an important movement among Internet users in terms of protecting our investments and our safety. > This is entirely disingenuous. Add-blockers aren't modifying sites like yours, they are allowing users to control what content their machines access and display. When this blocker trend started it was because the ads in use were obstructive to the user experience, damaging to our machines and later on, using up our data plans for things we didn't intend to download. Trey's solution here is to provide a sponsor message that is tailored visually to the content it surrounds, is not intrusive to the UX, and is extremely lightweight (just a few bytes of text). If the blocking community insists this is fair game to block, then the publishers have no reason to even attempt working with us. There are a lot of scummy advertisers out there and very good reason to be paranoid, but we cannot use that as justification to throw someone else under the bus who is clearly trying to meet us in the middle.

forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> There are a lot of scummy advertisers out there and very good reason to be paranoid, but we cannot use that as justification to throw someone else under the bus who is clearly trying to meet us in the middle. I'm not throwing Troy under the bus, as a matter of fact uBlock has 'toggle cosmetic filtering for the site' and I've turned it off to allow this sponsor message to be shown. But I will note that Troy is still serving tracking code from his site and I have no intention to stop using an Add-blocker for his livelihood or anyone else's. Could the curated lists be improved? Yes, I conceded that position in my above post as well. But the whole-scale attack on 'Add-Blockers' by someone serving tracking code is, as I have said totally disingenuous. It's not about 'the level of intrusiveness' it's about 'my right to control what code/content is executed/displayed on my machine'.

forgotpwtomain 10y ago

> There are a lot of scummy advertisers out there and very good reason to be paranoid, but we cannot use that as justification to throw someone else under the bus who is clearly trying to meet us in the middle. I'm not throwing Troy under the bus, as a matter of fact uBlock has 'toggle cosmetic filtering for the site' and I've turned it off to allow this sponsor message to be shown. But I will note that Troy is still serving tracking code from his site and I have no intention to stop using an Add-blocker for his livelihood or anyone else's. Could the curated lists be improved? Yes, I conceded that position in my above post as well. But the whole-scale attack on 'Add-Blockers' by someone serving tracking code is, as I have said totally disingenuous. It's not about 'the level of intrusiveness' it's about 'my right to control what code/content is executed/displayed on my machine'.