OT: weird ads on a linux site

Henry de Valence hdevalence-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sat Oct 6 00:26:29 UTC 2007


On October 5, 2007 08:12:27 pm Giles Orr wrote:
> And there's another irony to this: I followed the posted link without
> thinking about it, and I didn't see a single ad.  It's not just me
> either: a lot of Linux users have ad blocking turned on.  So MS pays
> for the site and we don't even see the ads ...  Let's not get into the
> morality of the use of ad blockers.  I sit on the fence about the
> morality, but I can't stand the websurfing experience _with_ ads, so
> from a practical point of view the blocking wins.

Speaking of which, it's odd.. I'm using Kubuntu 7.10, and the Konqueror 
AdblocK seems to have stopped working on a bunch of sites, including /.

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