'All Firefox users are content theives' - WTF!?

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Who is the biggest threat to the Internet?

These evil people using Firefox - they're a genuine threat to civilisation and should all be thrown in jail
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40%
Microsoft and the MAFIAA
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60%
 
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jrothwell97
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http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/
The right-wing capitalist lunatic wrote:You've reached this page because the site you were trying to visit now blocks the FireFox browser.

The Mozilla Foundation and its Commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, has allowed and endorsed Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that blocks advertisement on web sites and also prevents site owners from blocking people using it. Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of the rights of web site owners and developers. Numerous web sites exist in order to provide quality content in exchange for displaying ads. Accessing the content while blocking the ads, therefore would be no less than stealing. Millions of hard working people are being robbed of their time and effort by this type of software. Many site owners therefore install scripts that prevent people using ad blocking software from accessing their site. That is their right as the site owner to insist that the use of their resources accompanies the presence of the ads.

While blanket ad blocking in general is still theft, the real problem is Ad Block Plus's unwillingness to allow individual site owners the freedom to block people using their plug-in. Blocking FireFox is the only alternative. Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers..

Since the makers of Ad Block Plus as well as the filter subscriptions that accompany it refuse to allow website owners control over their own intellectual property, and since FireFox actively endorses Ad Block Plus, the sites linking to this page are now blocking FireFox until the resource theft is stopped.

Netscape users can simply set their browser to IE mode to continue to enjoy the site that sent you here. FireFox users can use Internet Explorer, Opera or Netscape (in IE mode) to access it. FireFox users also have the option of using the IE Tab plug-in which uses the IE rendering engine to display pages, but also disables the Ad Block Plus plug-in.

If you are offended by the Mozilla Corporation's endorsement of dishonesty please contact the Mozilla Foundation and ask them to stop empowering internet theft.
Slashdot has the usual users' diatribes on the story.

Last time I checked, looking away if you saw an advertising billboard was not 'content theft' - so why the hell should this be any different?

Your thoughts please.
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Psythor
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I don't think the billboard analogy is very good - as the publisher (the company who own the billboard) will be paid regardless of how many people look at it. Ad Block, as far as I can tell, removes advert code from pages, meaning that they do not even load. Web publishers, especially the smaller ones, are usually paid on the number of impressions/hits they get - and the only way to calculate this is by logging the number of times a file has been loaded.

Don't think an endorsement of the anti-adblock brigade, as I'd be a hypocrite as I use it myself.
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jrothwell97
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Sorry, that was a bad analogy.

However... maybe we should let the Firefox-using public decide.

The voting starts in fifteen seconds.
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Sput
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In the fire of literacy, rothwell, you're that stuff they find in old buildings that doesn't burn and gives you cancer.
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jrothwell97 wrote:Sorry, that was a bad analogy.

However... maybe we should let the Firefox-using public decide.

The voting starts in fifteen seconds.
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Alexia
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Imagine the scene. Millions of people wandering into local copshops saying they've been illegally using something called "firefox". The bill will think a new drug craze has started, and that the figurehead is "Mo Zilla".

Within a week the Tories will bring out another half-baked policy to help the victims of firefox abuse, and by deporting Mr Zilla back to Madagascar.
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Slagathor.
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Firefox is fucking awful. Only using it at the mo because IE is all messed up.

It's actually making the Internet slower, not faster! It can't even handle CSS!
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cdd
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Slagathor. wrote:Firefox is fucking awful. Only using it at the mo because IE is all messed up.
Strange how your first sentence directly contradicts the second.
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Jamez
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cdd wrote:
Slagathor. wrote:Firefox is fucking awful. Only using it at the mo because IE is all messed up.
Strange how your first sentence directly contradicts the second.
Not really. He's saying that Firefox is fucking awful, but at the moment IE is also fucked up. Therefore, on his machine at least, two of the main internet browsers do not function as they should.

The only complaint I have about Firefox is that it eats too much system memory. 102,636K for me right now, and I've only got 1 tab open. Madness.
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Sput wrote:In the fire of literacy, rothwell, you're that stuff they find in old buildings that doesn't burn and gives you cancer.
Asbestos? We used to play with asbestos In the science lab at school. Please tell me it is the non poisonous stuff.
Then a few years ago. The housing development i live on ( which was an aeodrome in a past life) the builders dug up some asbestos. It was left on pallets uncovered by the workmen for several weeks. It must have been safe stuff 'cos i phoned the Folkestone Herald and they didn't report on it.
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cdd
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Jamez wrote:The only complaint I have about Firefox is that it eats too much system memory. 102,636K for me right now, and I've only got 1 tab open. Madness.
My complaints are that it
  • Looks fucking ugly in Vista
  • Has weird nonstandard menus
  • Never lets you select text properly
  • Brings up a Windows 'Not Found' error when clicking on a link while it is the default browser
  • Lets anyone who wants to see your passwords at the press of a button (and yes, I know about master passwords)
  • Causes hassle when it comes to installing plugins etc
  • Doesn't like to interact nicely with other programs like Outlook
  • Doesn't support page zooming
  • Takes longer to start up
Off the top of my head...
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