Comments on: Don’t Block Firefox!

By: BitterHappiness (is kind of an ass)

BitterHappiness (is kind of an ass) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:22:59 +0000

Sell out. GTFO. I’m gonna use your site and block all your ads, including the stupid message you put. You don’t deserve money from me.

By: Joe Biden

Joe Biden — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:30:54 +0000

One year latorz….

CHARLES! SPOT ON!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:00:12 +0000

Perhaps you have heard of changing ones mind? I wrote this post about two years before I added that…because I was barely making any money at that time.

My opinion has changed substantially since my ads began generating a large percentage of my income.

By: mickytricky

mickytricky — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:25:33 +0000

Really? You must be making tons from your ads. wait. Oh your business does not care about money. By this day your site may have already been shut down.

To the author – “I don’t, but I have no problem with others doing it…however much it may decrease my ad revenues.”

Really? Is that why the bar on the top of this page is telling me that I ‘appear to be using ad blocking software, which hurts your site with a link to why this is important. What a Hypocrite!

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:30:03 +0000

If people don’t care to watch your advertisements, they will resent it if you force them to watch anyway, and not buy. Users should get to choose what ads, if any, interest them.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:05:01 +0000

As an advertiser I think this is the stupidest idea anybody could EVER follow through with. Why would you EVER try to limit the traffic you get on your website?
Secondly any advertiser that uses the shady practices of Pop-ups and Adware software should go ahead and ban. I myself refuse to buy from any website that uses pop-ups or go to it again just because I don’t like to close the window everytime I refresh.

This who thing is an empty threat, we should be more worried about the ACLU laws that will make ISP providers police internet users activity.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:58:57 +0000

i only block the advertisements that really annoy me. like the ones that pop up in the middle of the screen obstructing the view, or start playing a video with sound and doesn’t have a mute :/

By: Les Johns

Les Johns — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:53:38 +0000

Please excuse me readers, the wording on the second line of my condemnation of IE is slanted against Firefox when it should have been in praise. Should I prepare for everlasting burning?

By: Les Johns

Les Johns — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:47:17 +0000

I am a mini-stroke oldie who recently discovered the web. Stumbled into these informative pages and found I have lots of disgruntled Firefox friends. Wanting to learn quickly, I soon realised opportunistic cretins were taking my money to let me know I was the dickhead. This is offensive on a couple of counts, so I go without until I solve a problem.
I got the shits of Yahoo and friends taking over the system when I installed their oft not needed crap. Their vomit is the greatest virus, the worst bug; and to retain my sanity, I instinctively avoid them as I do a blatant cougher spewing vermin at every open blast. Allowing one innocent application to enter my computer is taken as carte blanche to pollute and destroy my set-up. Theirs’ is the worst virus. Was distracted by incessant password demands not only to get to my mail, but even Firefox stuff. When I set upon removing ‘IE’ pollutants, was sent to Coventry. The bastards severed all Firefox links and I was in the netherlands for almost three days until I circumvented their nastiness. That was when I learnt to use their own browser for mail and not a far more gentler opposition. In my tech. ignorance, I didn’t realise it was incumbent upon me to email under their banner or type my password on every mail visit. It’s us V them, brothers and sisters.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:11:51 +0000

It may not have been a wise move in a serious argument, but it’s absolutely perfect when writing for the AdBlock/Digg crowd. Back when I wrote this post in 2007 I was swimming in traffic within hours, and it’s still one of my most-viewed pages here.

On one hand, I got a lot of exposure. On the other, I’m not too proud of the post. My writing and rhetorical skills have improved greatly since, and I sometimes wonder if I could have done better.