Why Firefox is Blocked

Posted by hybridruide on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 09:15Seen Online

While browser wars slowly calming down, erred single fighters try further to undermine the liberties of the users. With the web page http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/index1.php a poor more madly guy tries to call the webmasters of this world to block firefox because one can protect oneself successfully with it and with various extensions from penetrant advertisement. apart from his technical unawareness Danny Carlton aka Jack Lewis walks on the way to a common next to each other into the opposite direction and calls for fight. capable webmasters will probably hardly support this.

~peter


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He doesn't get it...
Submitted by byteact on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 21:05.

I block ads that I find intrusive, abusive or just plain irritating, not ads which have purpose, reason and aren't annoying or detracting from the site content.

What this guy doesn't understand is that even before Firefox and AdBlock, ad blocking existed for Internet Explorer and every other browser out there in one form or another.

Myself I used to use Proxomitron which blocked ads in any browser that allowed you to set a proxy for connections.

So it's nothing new to the web, it's just something that's gotten more use by more people thanks to Firefox.


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An Anti-Firefox crusade
Submitted by ottodv on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 11:39.

This guy is on some kind of anti-Firefox crusade as testified by the links to Firefox myths and Firefox cult sites. I think it's best to ignore him as he is the kind of person that just craves attention.

Besides it makes no sense to block Firefox users this way as it's easily circumvented using the User Agent Switcher extension.

Personally I don't use ad block, because the amount of ads on a site tell me something about that site. The more ads the less reliable a site is (ie. it exists to mainly to serve ads not content) and I tend not to return to those anyway. Similarly I would not download anything from an ad filled site, just wouldn't trust it.

Otto

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Fine with me
Submitted by Ken Saunders on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 16:02.

It's too late to ignore as it has already flooded the Internet including Slashdot and people are responding but responding negatively. That's because the people responding are mostly Firefox users so no harm done there. And who gives a damn about that site that blocks Fx users. Just as a site may block IE users, the site owner is the one that loses by missing out on thousands to hundreds of thousands of visitors.

My theory about incompatible sites is that there are more than 64 million web sites online, so I can always find another site to visit no matter what the content of the site may be.

Now if it were YouTube, Facebook, or a really huge site/service, then I'd be concerned. As it is, I really don't care.

Another thing is that this brings quite a bit of attention to Firefox to IE users who may not ever heard of Firefox. The old even negative publicity can be good publicity. It's free exposure for Firefox, thanks dude.

I don't use ad block software either. If a site has that many ads that you need to block them, then I'd rather not visit such an obnoxious site anyway.

And finally, this person isn't too bright. It's spelled Firefox, not FireFox. That's what happens when the only word that this person can spell is IE.

Ken

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