Gogf wrote:Okay, thanks.
It is kind of immoral, but oh well.
It's immoral for me to stop people from trying to sell me something that I don't need or want?
Wow...
I don't -- the advertiser does
waft wrote:you read ads - you do not pay
you do not read ads - you pay
djst wrote:If you feel immoral (I sure don't, I don't read the ads anyway) and you view the new ad-free appearance as a "negative effect", then simply don't use adblock.
Um, didnt djst clearly say he does NOT consider it immoral?ivand67 wrote:djst wrote:If you feel immoral (I sure don't, I don't read the ads anyway) and you view the new ad-free appearance as a "negative effect", then simply don't use adblock.
WHOA!!!!! THAT'S immoral??!?
Whoa dude, seriously, chill out... loosen up your tie or something, grab a beer...<snip>
That explains a lot.waft wrote:i don't think.I don't -- the advertiser does
waft wrote:where do owner of page get the money from? from ads.
Not necessarily. He might also:waft wrote:where would he get the money from, if there were no ads? from users.[...]
waft wrote:you read ads - you do not pay
you do not read ads - you pay
tonymec wrote:Not necessarily. He might also:
1. go bankrupt
2. get his living money from elsewhere, as I do (the few ads on my own site aren't paid).
3. use his site to advertise one or more other products, some of which might be sold for money, not necessarily by him directly to just any user (Example: Where does Mozilla get its money from? Answer: from Netscape. Where are the ads [if any] that pay for that money? Not on Mozilla's pages.)
4. ask for voluntary donations
waft wrote:tonymec wrote:Not necessarily. He might also:
1. go bankrupt
2. get his living money from elsewhere, as I do (the few ads on my own site aren't paid).
3. use his site to advertise one or more other products, some of which might be sold for money, not necessarily by him directly to just any user (Example: Where does Mozilla get its money from? Answer: from Netscape. Where are the ads [if any] that pay for that money? Not on Mozilla's pages.)
4. ask for voluntary donations
1. wow! what a fantastic resolution
waft wrote:2. and why should he do this? he can put some ads to his site he has no problem
waft wrote:3. isn't it the same as putting ads to his site?
waft wrote:4. and this is the same as making the site paid
Gogf wrote:I don't know, it just seems kind of illigal to be blocking people's advertisements. Hopefully it's not.