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claroscuro commented on Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser wsj.com/articles/google-p... · Posted by u/kristianc
Sure, but in your example, you've paid for the salad. The whole reason (presumably) that advertising has gotten in the state it's in is that nobody wants to pay for things, but it costs money to keep the lights on.
Full disclaimer: I use things for free day in and day out. I try to pay for things that I find value in as my budget allows. I find many ads annoying.
Yeah, I see how my analogy fails now.
I still don't think there is a moral right or wrong with AdBlockers. Web sites are text--how you choose to render them is (or should be) up to you, in my opinion.
claroscuro commented on Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser wsj.com/articles/google-p... · Posted by u/kristianc
If you go to a restaurant and order a salad, you're not obligated to eat the olives, and you have the right to take them off your plate.
Likewise, you have the right to bring an intermediary who looks at your salad and hides all the olives for you.
If your intermediary happens to work for Green Olive Co. and he hides the black olives but not the green ones, you have the right to switch to another intermediary. Or get another intermediary who checks the plate and hides the rest of the olives. Or do whatever you want, because you're not obligated to consume any part of the salad that you don't want to.
claroscuro commented on Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/industry? · Posted by u/machtesh
The C Programming Language -- Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
Comprehensive, concise, and beautifully written.
1) A website that doesn't work in browsers (without configuration) is crap
2) Google again shoving that unwanted browser in my face (on top of afs all over the place and the "Upgrade to Chrome" bullshit) is getting out of hand
You might present a workaround to read the website. Downvoters might feel like me and don't give a damn about this content if it doesn't display in a normal, modern browser..
It's almost like companies have a right to push their own products by building things into that ecosystem. Does it also bother you that Apple doesn't develop iMessage for Android?
The web isn't a magical universal standard anymore. Every browser is different and supports different things. If you want to use something that's not supported by your browser but you're not willing to switch, that's not the developer's problem.
>Google again shoving that unwanted browser in my face.
It's almost like companies are allowed to advertise their products. I don't complain about Coca-Cola again shoving that unwanted drink in my face because their vending machines only sell Coke, and because their ads are everywhere.
At some point you're just arguing against Google, and not against the specific product in the post.