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Ethics of Mozilla/Firefox users blocking web ads (split)
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by Antony » Mon 23 Jan, 2006 6:47 pm
Blocking certain elements in a webpage is simply destroying the page layout and integrity. It's like only allowing selected elements to be seen. It's an act of disrespect.
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by Antony » Sat 18 Feb, 2006 8:39 pm
One more point on those "extremists". To be more specific,"extremists" refers to those open-source extremists who refuse to use commercial software, if open-source alternative is available... also demands everything to comply to "standards".... plus they hate advertisements.
(Not going to repeat the point on physical advertisements, or whether they read any weekly discount catalogue regarding their local supermarket.) There are a number of them prefer PNG picture format, their reason: PNG is lossless in compression. It is true that JPEG produces some noise, however, the file size of JPEG is much smaller (in most situations).
Then, for those extremists who happened to block all ads may likely say ads slows down page loading and wastes internet bandwidth (quota).
They can accept an unnecessary large PNG file, but can't take a few advertisement.
(Not going to repeat the point on physical advertisements, or whether they read any weekly discount catalogue regarding their local supermarket.) There are a number of them prefer PNG picture format, their reason: PNG is lossless in compression. It is true that JPEG produces some noise, however, the file size of JPEG is much smaller (in most situations).
Then, for those extremists who happened to block all ads may likely say ads slows down page loading and wastes internet bandwidth (quota).
They can accept an unnecessary large PNG file, but can't take a few advertisement.
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by Edward » Sat 18 Feb, 2006 8:49 pm
Antony,
With respect to the iTunes advertisements, I believe only Mac users can click them. I clicked one and the URL that it tried to redirect to began with itms:// which is not a registered protocol on non-MacOS machines.
With respect to the iTunes advertisements, I believe only Mac users can click them. I clicked one and the URL that it tried to redirect to began with itms:// which is not a registered protocol on non-MacOS machines.
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by Antony » Sat 18 Feb, 2006 9:04 pm
Edward, you need to have iTunes installed, and allow Firefox/SeaMonkey etc to launch external application.Edward wrote:Antony,
With respect to the iTunes advertisements, I believe only Mac users can click them. I clicked one and the URL that it tried to redirect to began with itms:// which is not a registered protocol on non-MacOS machines.
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by Mandrake » Sat 18 Feb, 2006 10:27 pm
Those ads work fine on Windows XP, with iTunes installed.
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