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Those people will five 9s likely be blocking ads too, so who cares? They can enjoy my content for free no problem, but I really don't care what they have to sa

• Houshalter 12y ago
  The Tor browser doesn't block ads. Just javascript and flash. His point is the internet is becoming increasingly hostile to privacy. It's already extremely difficult if not impossible to create anonymous accounts with tools like Tor. Which discourages things like whistle blowing, or people from areas with oppressive governments.
  • corobo 12y ago
    That is a fair point, in my experience Tor is just used by bots to spam comments up with junk. This is probably different for larger sites of course but on our scale there's no worries blocking Tor Edit: Although thinking about it I don't know any ads that aren't served up without some form of Javascript
    • Houshalter 12y ago
      The problem is that every website does the same thing, and now it's impossible to use the internet anonymously. But actual spammers can spend a few bucks on IP rotating services. IP discrimination causes far more harm than good. Actually I don't think Tor disables javascript by default anymore, but even when I do disable it I still see ads.
    • Scoundreller 12y ago
      If comments were blocked, that's one thing, but increasingly often access to the site as a whole gets blocked.