Boycott ad-blocking Firefox, urges furious web designer

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A website designer is calling for a boycott of Firefox in opposition to its ad-blocking extension. Danny Carlton is calling on website owners who rely on advertising to insert a script that prevents Mozilla's web browser from displaying their pages.


unfortunately , the only ads I ever see are for those happy faces or screen savers. Each and everyone of which demands that you download a trojen that infects your computer and turns not only your Internet Explorer surfing experience into a nightmare, but typically renders the whole computer a festering virus laden mess in fairly short order.

Let me count the number of times I've had to clean my brothers computer because he saw a cool screen saver he wanted ...


The problem, according to Carlton, is the Ad Block Plus extension, a plug-in that lets Firefox users block advertising and other unwanted content when they view web pages. The extension doesn't allow website owners to prevent it from blocking ads. The result is that "hard working people are being robbed of their time and effort," according to Carlton.


The problem is your ads are mostly virus laden executables. What ever happened to a few flash animations and a picture here and there ? Now it's just infect infect infect ....


Since Ad Block Plus cannot be blocked in isolation, the only option as far as Carlton is concerned is to block the browser. "Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of advertisers rights...


You can still insert pictures and flash animations.

"Numerous websites exist in order to provide quality content in exchange for displaying ads. Accessing the content while blocking the ads, therefore, would be no less than stealing."


Numerous websites exist to brutally ignore the surfers right to his own computer and turn it into a spam and virus infected nightmare. You're in the position of demanding no one have any locks on your door because you want to run a service to deliver milk and put it in their refridgerator even if they're not home. That is such a massive security violation I can't begin to describe it , and demanding we run your executables is pretty much on the same level.


...therefore blocking Firefox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers," he claims.


The usual I want the profits and you pick up the pieces after wards I dont' care what kind of mess I make of your personal private equipment.

The only resource thief here is you , you bozo.
Go back to static pictures and flash animations and stop infecting everyone and the dog with your virus BS.