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vm writes with word of a new project from the creators of AdBlock for Chrome, the popular that blocks advertisements from showing up on web pages. The new tool in development, AdBlock Freedom, expands the ad-free experience to television, , and billboards. 'Here's how it works: when powered off, AdBlock Freedom functions as sunglasses. Slide a discreet switch on the frame, and AdBlock Freedom begins scanning your for objects that it recognizes as ads. Any detected ad gets a "smudge" overlay to blend it into its surroundings.' You can sign up now ."
Re:Give users {control/money/respect/pants} (Score:4, Informative)
I've got a better idea:
Give me an adblocker that stifles ads with sound, pop-ups, pop-unders, animation (although I will accept it on mouse-over), changing size, and other abusive fucktardery, but allows silent, static, on-page ads to appear unimpeded; furthermore, have it automatically generate a message to the webmaster informing them that their abusive and needlessly irritating ad has been blocked, and that so long as they continue to run ads which unreasonably interfere with my ability to use their site, I will continue to deny them ad-revenues.
I'll use it, and I'll be glad for the option of rewarding good behavior (through allowing reasonable ads to generate revenue) and punishing bad behavior (by causing obnoxious ads to waste bandwidth and potentially DDoS mail servers).
I don't have any problem with a site running banner ads as a revenue stream, and I am perfectly happy to just let them display on the page... but intentionally doing extra shit just to annoy me is crossing the line.