I don't use Adblock Plus. I don't block ads as such, just because they are ads. I don't mind ads. I believe in supporting sites thru advertising. However: *

I don't use Adblock Plus. I don't block ads as such, just because they are ads. I don't mind ads. I believe in supporting sites thru advertising. However: * I cannot tolerate anything moving on the page. It prevents me from reading text, and I'll do whatever is necessary to turn it off, regardless of the effect on the site's advertising schemes. * Sites don't have any right to expect me to run their Javascript or other code. I'll turn it on only for functionality that I have a need for. * I won't tolerate tracking, and therefore turn off requests to domains other than those necessary to read the content on the page. So, again, I'm fine with ads - they just have to respect my reasonable limitations. And the line about Google respecting privacy doesn't pass the laugh test. If I'm tracked across the web by Google includes, the privacy violation has already occurred at that point, regardless of what Google does with the data after they collect it (same goes for other data-miners).