But where do you get off thinking you can demand people do things they don’t want to do so that you can make more money…in a way that is quite frankly pretty cushy and painless compared to what most people in the world do to support themselves and their families?

I’d like to make easy money too, and I don’t begrudge anyone who’s able to do it successfully…but what bothers me is the sense of entitlement. What makes you think anyone owes you a living–and this kind of living in particular? If you think no one should be able to view your content without paying for the privilege, then make a subscription website, or sell ebooks.

Businesses get money by giving people what they want and need in exchange. You’re insisting that people take what they don’t want so that you can get money from advertisers, who aren’t getting anything in return, since the people who block the ads probably wouldn’t buy the advertised products/services anyway. If you insist on doing business that way, you’ll probably fail, and you’ll deserve to. Demanding that consumers act in ways that will support your preferred business model is just childish and futile.

The problem is the annoying ads, ads that redirect, install bs software, and all kinds of bad stuff.. You should have been more respectful of the end user, and it would have never become an issue.

You create a problem, then want to complain when ppl strike back, I’ve never once tried to block TV ads, why, because they don’t hijack my fucking tv.. I watch tv at Hulu.com, and don’t block their ads either, because they don’t fuck with me..

Also, enough excuses, most of you run hobby sites and expect us to pay for them, because you share them, guess what, people have shared free shit with you for ages, like HTML, Java, C#, Linux, etc, etc, you get free shit all the time, but can’t reciprocate?

You’re greedy hypocrites, I write freeware applications all the time, free games, free lots of stuff, I give back to the community, what do you do?

I don’t owe you jack shit, if I support a site it’s because they deserve it, you want support earn it, you aren’t owed shit, got a problem with that, fuck off..

Now if you want to fix the problem, stop the BS ads, and do them proper, don’t hijack my browser, don’t install viri, don’t install software without telling me about it, don’t be a dick, I guess is the point..

Dicks.

The Internet was designed around the concept of information exchange, and when sites try to force advertising contents onto *my* computer, I and everyone else have *every right* to block it. Making adblock illegal is no different than someone being harassed because they change the channel, turn off the TV, walk away or fast forward through TIVO every single time they are bombarded with useless content.

The expense of creating a page, registering a domain and uploading it’s content is *paltry* in comparison to national advertising on the radio, TV or newspapers and magazines. Those advertisements are all expenses, and their sales and use are designed to make up for those costs. People know ahead of time that watching a TV show involves commercials, or reading a magazine will involve advertisements tailored for the readers.

Having a business web page *is in and of itself* an advertisement for your good or service. If I am a heating and refrigeration company, I can create a website, be referenced by any search engine…and people will be able to interactively read about everything I have to offer. They, after reading about me, will hire me because of my content. However, in virtually every case where adblock becomes necessary, the website is attempting to *pimp content for other websites* in an attempt to make back some money. In other words, they feel they have the right to take up my bandwidth foisting things I wasn’t looking for or asking for onto a machine they don’t own. They want to take the minor expense of running a website and reverse it from being a small business expense for their good or service into one that becomes a private money-maker off of the bandwidth back of users. That is not possible in other forms of advertisements because they are not interactive. Hence, traditional advertisement patterns have been replaced with aggressive domination of the users they are attempting to sway with their content.

This is not about people hating advertisements. If TV or radio shows had the same equivalent content to advertisement ratios as web sites, there would be about 5 minutes or less of useful content for every hours worth of broadcast. People would simply stop watching TV.

Companies that have blatantly abused and exhibited hostile patterns of user control are the ones who have just been hit with this broadside shot. Users do NOT have to pensively sit and be forced to waste time and money wading their way through useless content that has been aggressively forced on users. Had companies not taken this abusive stance, then people would not have deemed such a tool necessary.

So before calling the rest of us “f@#%ing idiots” because you are too immature to rationally argue with the rest of the world that disagrees with you, I suggest you switch to decaf and grow up.