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How short-sighted.
by mahouse 12y ago
How short-sighted.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoCould you elaborate on why exactly is this short-sighted?
- mahouse 12y agoYou don't care about that blackmailing, but you will probably start caring when publishers start paying AdBlock cash so they show their ads.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoI've read some other comments; I didn't realize that ABP is building a sort of "pay me to show ads" business. This is something I don't like and I will re-evaluate my position on this particular piece of software. I am, however, still supporting the proliferation of ad blockers in general, and forcing publishers to find ways to earn money that don't involve forcing crap down people's throats.
- mahouse 12y agoOf course. I support that view. Switch to uBlock. 😉
- ordinary 12y agoRight now, you can avoid that fate by unticking one checkbox. I'll start caring when that checkbox disappears. But even in that (currently entirely hypothetical) scenario, I genuinely don't understand why people are so scared of AdBlock Plus abusing its position. This isn't Facebook, there is almost no lock-in. The principle behind adblockers allows many different applications to use the same filter subscriptions. Several alternatives already exist, and they will only multiply when AdBlock Plus starts alienating its users (which can, currently seems to, but needn't overlap with its customers). So what is there to worry about?
- frenchy 12y agoThe advertisers can not win this one. We can just switch to another fork of AdBlock (or make an new one).