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List:       mozilla-ui
Subject:    Re: Just an Idea -- Option to Eliminate Banner Loading
From:       Michael Hearn <michael.hearn () fallibroome ! cheshire ! sch ! uk>
Date:       1998-09-15 11:29:35
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I think you have all missed the fundamental point about advertising.
Blocking advertising might be convenient for you in the short term but
adverts are in fact there for a reason. They are not just to annoy you but
to provide revenue for the site owners. without this money the site could
not be run and it would close down or people would be charged. Who wants
that?

If everybody blocked advertising we would start paying not only for phone
bills, and ISP charges but also for the sites we visit.

Don't bother.

Bert Driehuis wrote:

> Sorry to jump in on this aging thread so late, but I must respond to
> this one because I'm concerned about it...
>
> Ramiro Estrugo wrote:
> > deedsn@1mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Would it not be nice to have the option to prevent the loading of
> > > advertisement banners on web pages?
> [snip]
> > see:  www.junkbuster.org.
> >
> > Doing this in mozilla would be an added complication that would not be
> > worth the effort when such tools as junkbuster exists.
> [snip]
>
> Yup, agreed so far...  I however would recommend doing ad filtering
> through a plug-in, or not at all. My problem with junkbuster is that
> it's a proxy, and therefore yet another security risk for the
> unsuspecting soul.
>
> One of the blue sky columns on http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky points
> out that the hooks to do so should be generalised to the point where
> writing such a plug-in to filter HTML would be fairly easy. I never
> looked into it, but this was one of the things that fired up my interest
> in the Mozilla effort (incidentally, reading the docs on how to actually
> write a plug-in dampened the enthusiasm a little; to me, C++ still is a
> hostile world :-)
>
> Maybe if it rains too hard on my vacation :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>                                 -- Bert
>
> --
> Bert Driehuis -- driehuis@playbeing.org -- +31-20-3116119
> The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all
> who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
>                 -- Benjamin Franklin.

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