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On the Tenacity of Internet Explorer 6
- brett 19y agoHis analysis makes a lot of sense. I wonder if ads "make the web suck" enough for general users to switch if some browser made ad blocking a priority out of the box. It seems likes a pretty powerful feature, but people are conditioned to have ads surrounding everything they see so they might not care. Unfortunately Firefox is probably the only existing candidate for turning on ad blocking as a default and there's no way they have the balls for that given their relationships with advertisers (I'm thinking mainly of Google, but am guessing there are more). Watch the Mozilla CEO skirt the question: http://apcmag.com/6043/why_theres_no_inbuilt_adblocker_in_firefox_yet_mozilla_ceo http://apcmag.com/6043/why_theres_no_inbuilt_adblocker_in_fi...
- earthboundkid 19y agoI wonder. I have trouble getting my girlfriend to mute the TV during commercials. She finds them entertaining. :( I wonder if other people like "punching the monkey"? shudder