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[–] Northvvait 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
“Email address is always very valuable and, with proper terms of service, figuring out a way to monetize these things in the right way could be interesting,” Mr. DVorkin said.
Those spammers sure are awesome, Forbes truly is a friend to it's readers.
[–] pr0nw4r 1 point 24 points 25 points (+25|-1) ago
The last time some community I remembered enabled ads, the adware provider accidentally let slip by a trojan, infecting several computers.
At this point for me, no amount of pleading or begging will change my mind. Bring on the ad war, I am more than willing to keep track of forums, and tech things to circumvent new ad blocking tech. Because fuck you companies. Go to fucking hell.
[–] 5193932? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Even without the threat of malware, ads are still a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. That system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are good at it. No person who did not wish to dominate others would choose to use advertising. I choose not to be dominated so I block all ads by default, and I don't expose myself to old media platforms like television or radio.
[–] pr0nw4r 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yea, that is a pretty fair position as well. But to me, ads to purchase goods, tech and other things are far much of the lesser evil. I mean clean ads. The problem however is that the control around them always turns into complete fucking shit, 100% of the time. If people only restricted ads to a simple jpg, with a link to a verified store inside of it that only activates when clicked. I may start having morality doubts.
But again, I too have had experience with ads and that experience tells me that even at my morality, at my level, they cannot be trusted, not even for a single second. Perhaps if it was a governmental entity, that could be sued and was transparent enough, that HAD to answer to its calls, that could be called upon with a phone and whatnot. That had enough oversight. This would be a lesser evil still.
But these things arent happening. They are basically saying "accept a 100% risk of getting infected, seeing dirty ads, or being subject to some sjw bullshit, or you are a nazi and are literally causing my children to go hungry."
So fug them. Your position is fair as well, as we do not live in communism, and your computer is your own. You are in no way obligated to have anything on it that you dont want. But these companies dont even have the moral high ground for saying that they need ads to survive as they do far more harm than good. So whatever, I am happy to stay in your camp, and to just let them die.
[–] pr0nw4r 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Haha oh wow, its still happening? That is fucking hilarious. I was only remotely aware of it happening ONCE before, on a somewhat more obscure site, 3 years ago, and it stuck with me forever, till this day. Since it keeps happening, spreading news like this is going to tilt a lot of users over the edge, like it did me those many years ago. God, that is hilarious.
[–] Zetterbluntz 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago
Looks like Im gonna use all my ten up votes in this thread.
[–] JamesRussell 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
They can't be as retarded as to think this could ever possibly work, surely something else malicious has to be going on behind this.
[–] sinjinsmythe 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
Wasn't Forbes was the site that asked to be white listed from ad blockers and then "accidentally" installed malware on every visiting user's computer?
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[–] 5193398? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
In addition to blocking the overlay element (as mentioned below), most sites like this are run by greedy fucks who have a separate set of rules for Google, so that their content will still show up in search results (and then disappear when a real user clicks on them). Knowing this, you can use any user agent addon and set your user agent on that site to be the Google crawler bot.
[–] ScreaminMime 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Is there no app that will, for example put "-Forbes", in all your future searches?
[–] Northvvait 0 points 22 points 22 points (+22|-0) ago
Fun fact: on a lot of sites, that overlay is just another element you can select and block. It brings me great joy to block those crybaby windows.
[–] Narikonus 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
I'm so conflicted. On one hand, I don't want any website telling me I need to turn off adblock, but on the other, where else will I get the unique and downright important news stories that only Forbes can provide?
Just kidding.
Fuck Forbes