The Ad-Blocker’s Dilemma

[HTMLBasicTutor]

...One area of contention with ad blocking software is whether it is illegal or not. There are several legal theories that may offer an avenue of attack for those who wish to seek recouse against the creators of such tools and, possibly, their users.

The biggest is that ad blocking software infringes the copyright of the sites they filter by creating an unlawful derivative work of the site. It is an interesting theory, by which the Web page, as it is intended to be displayed, is a work that is unlawfully altered by the application...

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[drmike]

Visitors pay for their bandwidth? Since when? Even my gigabit uplinks are a flat month fee.

I have it in place in my firefox browser but it's not turned on. I spend too much time in support forums helping out and have to review sites too much for me to turn it on normally. Plus heck I click on them on occasion.

I know with WP and WPMu's Who see's adverts plugins, one of the suggestions is to not display adverts to firefox users. This is suggested as those users are going to be the ones who have an adblocker in place.

[keenespointe786]

Ad blocker is only for those people who are working their own sits and they have doubt to click on the adds by mistake so they use it.

[drmike]

Originally Posted by keenespointe786

Ad blocker is only for those people who are working their own sits and they have doubt to click on the adds by mistake so they use it.

I believe most if not all of those folks commented on those linked to threads would disagree with that assumption.

Oh, I also block manually a few advert urls that I know to serve advertisements that contain malware.