MontzA wrote:Giorgio Maone wrote:So you too want to dictate how I implement my site, and until I don't comply you keep it hijacked?

Well you want to dictate ABP users to whitelist your sites.
Nope, I do not "dictate" anything (user can still choose), while EasyList does dictate my sites to be broken and they have no choice.
I don't prevent users from blocking ads on my site if they whish to, I just don't want an overzealous crusader to decide for them.
Also my sites can't subtract themselves from EasyList's diktat other than using "tricks" that may be deemed shady, while users are unaffected by my supposed "diktat" as soon as they choose to "AdBlock this and AdBlock that" by themselves. So who's the dictator?
MontzA wrote:Giorgio Maone wrote:Anyway, if a NoScript user doesn't want to see Google Ads on my sites, he just needs to click on NoScript's icon and choose
Forbid googlesyndication.com. Easy and quick, since NoScript's blocking cannot be circumvented in any way...

ABP users already choosed not to see any ads.

Wrong. According to
Wladimir himself they don't want to see
the annoying ones:
Wladimir wrote:There is only one reliable way to make sure your ads aren’t blocked — make sure the users don’t want to block them. [...] Don’t forget about the users. Use ads in a way that doesn’t degrade their experience.
Here's
some other other inspirational reading from him along these lines, defending Mozilla's ad revenue.
All this makes sense if users are supposed to
opt out from ads served by a certain site when they find they're misplaced or cripple their navigation experience.
Unfortunately, EasyList (which is advertised as an almost mandatory choice on ABP startup) has taken a different path, purposely eradicating all the ads from a bunch of relatively minor Firefox-only sites which almost entirely depend on support by ABP users, and at any cost (even breaking site functionality)...
It's a decision of few people, with dubious benefits for very few people, but damaging a lot of people (all NoScript and FlashGot users, not just me): as I already said, if all the ABP users really wanted to block my ads, they would have blocked them before EasyList did and, most important, I wouldn't see any quantitative difference because ABP users would just refuse to click them (they're all per-click or per-conversion, no per-impression stuff).
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