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011111100010 wrote:
Marc Clifton wrote: My understanding is that ad blockers remove the ad after it's been downloaded
Some may work that way but others claim that sites are much faster using an adblocker which would tell me it prevents it from being processed by the browser altogether. Don't know really.
Even an ad blocker that downloaded (but did not render) the ad would speed up the display of the page. However, if it "knows" that a certain site is to be blocked, why bother downloading it in the first place?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Marc Clifton wrote: it requires the Federal Highway Administration to ensure that the State transportation departments maintain "effective control of the erection
I had no idea that ADOT was in control of my erections. Should I complain about being shortchanged?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Mladen Janković wrote: Should I block anything else?
Ports 80 and 443.
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Mladen Janković wrote: Since blocking ads is stealing according to some, why blocking miners is any different, or even blocking malware?
Sorry, but this is a ridiculous question. 
IMHO it's all about intent...If the goal is to steal, extort, or install something without notification (with the exception of MS  ), then the authors of such content should go die in a fire. :fire: (isn't there a symbol for fire?)
That said, I don't use adblocker or special hosts file, but I understand why others do. As others have asked, how is it stealing when the adblocking is done on the client?...the server doesn't know or care if the ad was blocked or viewed?...the website has done it's job and sent the ad.
If you/they mean that the 'theft' is that the audience/user was denied the clever marketing blurb/video that some big name company paid money to produce and disseminate, then all I can do is laugh, since that is also a ridiculous argument as I just ignore them anyway! (except of course those famous Carls Jr./Hardee's ads...I mean who doesn't like a good burger!)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: goal is to steal, extort, or install something without notification
What miners do? They don't steal, extort and install anything? Same with trackers. Adware is malware as well, even though ad-ablocking-is-stealing-dude refuses to acknowledge this 
btw. I'm not advocating that we should't block miners and malware, but that ads are in the same category, a category that is subject to user's will and judgment to let them run on his system.
kmoorevs wrote: website has done it's job and sent the ad.
As I explained previously, ad blockers filter HTTP requests from browser that are sent to server to serve ads. Example
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kmoorevs wrote: What do I get if my processor is hijacked to perform cryptocurrency algorithms?
What do I get from ads? I get higher internet bill on my metered connections*, less privacy and less security (and more CPU time wasted, knowing how the code for these ads is written). So you're not arguing the principle here.
Proponents of #BlockingIsStealing would argue that you get the content. They are vocal when it comes to ads, but strangely silent on subject of CC miners, even though those are not different in principle.
* - as you saw in the screenshot: 7% of request are blocked since installation. This does not include cosmetically blocked ads and it's percent after most of JavaScript code has already been blocked by NoScript, so I would say real number is greater than 10% or requests.
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In my opinion, we should default to block all ads, miners, etc.. and only opt-in if it's meaningful to us. If sites go offline/broke.. so be it.
In my experience, sites that don't thrive on ad revenue, for whatever reason, put out much higher quality content and are curated to a much higher degree. Quality is used attract people and generate profit.
Sites that run on ad revenue are in the business of wasting my time for money.
Money is far less valuable to me than time, so I hate those sites with a zealous passion.
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 Block it all and let Adam Smith's invisible hand sort it out. WAY too much crap on the Net. Death to click-bait.
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Just send them an urgent email!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I'm kinda screwed - going to have to move - maybe MS 365 or similar.
SmarterASP.Net and other providers are great until they're not and right now they are not!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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I have been using Prohosting for some 20 years, and cannot remember ever having your kind of issues. They are very reliable but they are not cheap (some $18 / month).
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Anything with asp in the name is sure to turn and bite you.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I really want to laugh at that but I still have got no further. I am submitting a ticket every hour to see what happens. Once I can access I'll preserve any email still on the server and move elsewhere.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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maybe they are running the Intel patch on their servers. Though, I read last night that you're not supposed to run the patch now because it has bugs in it.
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Motorhead guitarist 'Fast' Eddie Clarke dies at 67[^] And so goes the last one. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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True, the last of the Classic 'Head  Sorry I didn't see this post ealier, saw old Eddie had gone...
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They're probably sending you lots of updates on your support requests - by email!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Indeed!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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I need to have them "fix" my email. Requests for people asking me to do work are still coming through.
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Damn! Why can't Russian kidnappers target the US Senate?
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Now there is a crowd fund idea I would contribute too.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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