|
A French group of publishers, including top names such as Microsoft and Google, are planning to sue developers of ad-blocking software because of the impact that their solutions have on their web-based solutions. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
modified 10-Dec-14 13:32pm.
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Alas, few ever get past the first step with me.
When they do, they always get stuck on step 2.
Ah well, it's easier that way. 
|
|
|
|
|
How about "AdBlock" - The most popular Chrome extension, with over 40 million users! Blocks ads all over the web.
Google allowed this one and not Adblock Plus. This is simply crazy 
|
|
|
|
|
Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
|
|
|
|
|
Leandro Taset wrote: would I be entitled to sue them later
All you need is deep pockets!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm waiting for the day when they integrate an ad-bar you can't disable directly into their browsers... oh, wait - I actually don't. This is ridiculous. I mean, why do Microsoft and Google care so much if users block advertisements? The only ones being upset should be the providers of this garbage.
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: why do ... Google care so much if users block advertisements? The only ones being upset should be the providers of this garbage.
Isn't that Google though?
|
|
|
|
|
They make a lot of money from selling advertising space on their web pages - that's why
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
Opera used to do that, before they realised how stupid it was.
Up to this point, Opera was trialware and had to be purchased after the trial period ended. Version 5.0 (released in 2000) saw the end of this requirement. Instead, Opera became ad-sponsored, displaying advertisements to users who had not paid for it. Later versions of Opera gave the user the choice of seeing banner ads or targeted text advertisements from Google. With version 8.5 (released in 2005) the advertisements were removed entirely and primary financial support for the browser came through revenue from Google (which is by contract Opera's default search engine).
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
The fundamental disconnect is their assumption that those of us who run adblockers would ever:
0) Click on an ad even if it was relevant. or
1) Remember a product/service advertised that way for any other reason than because the ad they used was sufficiently obnoxious to earn them a slot on the viewers boycott list.
Every banner/popup/etc that I block from even downloading is one more that the advertiser hasn't thrown money away to pay for and that won't run the risk of eliminating any chance of my doing business with them in the future.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
If I rent out billboard space on the wall of my house, it's not really my problem if the advertisements on there aren't well placed. But if someone plants a tree in front the billboard, then it does become my problem.
.
|
|
|
|
|
And when you decide a static billboard isn't good enough, and replace it with a 1.21gigawatt projector and a huge set of speakers that go to 11 and aim both to blast through my window when I'm doing something else it's a declaration of war and I won't be taking prisoners.
I don't know where the revenue model for the web is going to end up; but the barrage of video, talking, animated, content blocking, and seizure flashing banners/etc that elephanting advertiscum have been spraying all over the place are so far beyond the pale that they're not the answer. My blocking filters are entirely selfwritten; every banner host that's blocked and every page that's had all it's ad divs blocked has gotten on the list for disrupting my ability to do whatever I was on the site to do.
Ads that don't do that, like say the text banner in my gmail account, still get through.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
I hear you, but the point was that it's not the advertisers themselves that decided to sue.
.
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Erm...no.
Then you lose.
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
Eric Schmidt wants you to know that robots are your friend. "Seasons don't fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain"
|
|
|
|
|
You know I hate to ask but, are 'friends' electric?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
|
|
|
|
|
Whew! So glad to know that robots are my friends.
I didn't think I had any.
|
|
|
|
|
Says the guy who bought Boston Dynamics.
guck foogle.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm not afraid of A.I. future, I'm just afraid the humans will stop us. 
|
|
|
|
|
Elon says fear it, I don't flinch. Google says don't fear it and I want to hide under my chair. I'm going to say these people don't have the reputations they want to.
|
|
|
|
|
It would be very nice to see some intelligence out there, even if artificial.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
|
|
|
|
|
Redmond says the US would be aghast if a foreign government behaved as it does. Everyone knows tramping over people's privacy is the business of corporations, not government
|
|
|
|
|
I began to realize that some people believe that I invented the excessively overlong Windows "Hello World" program. I'm afraid I did not. Mr. Petzold doesn't take the blame for your writer's cramp
|
|
|
|
|
His decision not to fully implement IGreeting<IPlanetaryBody> is the real issue here...that's why I never ported by 'Sup Jupiter app to windows.
|
|
|
|
|
One of the commenters on that article...
Andrew, on Charles' blog posted:
Hey Charles
I, like many people of my age (I'm 60) learned Windows programming from your book. At the time, I would have said that the code was insanely complex. I recently re-read the book, Having grappled with the Microsoft APIs ever since then, I found it refreshingly simple. WCF, Entity Framework anyone?
— Andrew, Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:04:53 -0500
I learned from the Programming Windows 3.0 book and thought it was complex too. But Andrew is right. It ain't nothing compared to "modern frameworks which make things so much easier". har har har
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
