Blocking Adds Is Now Theft


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I don't see how they make money on popups. Does anyone actually click on that crap?

how come AOL is the largest isp?

how come spamers make $mills?

how come ebay scamers still exist?

simple: there is enough idiots for everything :D

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Cowpie, that was the dumbset thing I've read for a while. You're licensing to use the game/program. It's copyright material. It is VERY against the law to do that (without permission, of course. or the company releases the source code for modders and such).

Anyways, ads are plain out annoying. I never see anything half useful. If they'd start advertising for sites that had stuff people wanted, they might be worth clicking. Most of the ads are scams or complete bullpoop anyways :crazy:

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Cowpie, that was the dumbset thing I've read for a while. You're licensing to use the game/program. It's copyright material. It is VERY against the law to do that (without permission, of course. or the company releases the source code for modders and such).

Anyways, ads are plain out annoying. I never see anything half useful. If they'd start advertising for sites that had stuff people wanted, they might be worth clicking. Most of the ads are scams or complete bullpoop anyways  :crazy:

Licensing? Did you sign your name and rights away by purchasing a game or program? I own Civ3. If I want to spit on the CD I can. If I want to feed it to my cat I can. AND if I want to apply a NO CD crack to it. I CAN. If I want to change the graphics from the game to little fluffy bunnies I can. If I want say the game is a piece of garbage I can.

Never, ever, give up your power to anyone or anything. You then become a slave.

Cowpie is right.

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Licensing? Did you sign your name and rights away by purchasing a game or program? I own Civ3. If I want to spit on the CD I can. If I want to feed it to my cat I can. AND if I want to apply a NO CD crack to it. I CAN. If I want to change the graphics from the game to little fluffy bunnies I can. If I want say the game is a piece of garbage I can.

when you installed the game you accepted whatever EULA said, weather your read it or not, agree with it or not doesn't matter. you accepted it by installing the game.

you bought the media and license to use the software. you DO NOT own that game. you can do with "CD media" whatever you want. you can not apply no-cd crack. you can not change the graphics. you can say the game is a piece of garbage as long as it's not libel.

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Licensing?  Did you sign your name and rights away by purchasing a game or program? I own Civ3.  If I want to spit on the CD I can.  If I want to feed it to my cat I can.  AND if I want to apply a NO CD crack to it.  I CAN.  If I want to change the graphics from the game to little fluffy bunnies I can.  If I want say the game is a piece of garbage I can.

when you installed the game you accepted whatever EULA said, weather your read it or not, agree with it or not doesn't matter. you accepted it by installing the game.

you bought the media and license to use the software. you DO NOT own that game. you can do with "CD media" whatever you want. you can not apply no-cd crack. you can not change the graphics. you can say the game is a piece of garbage as long as it's not libel.

My relationship with a manufacturer/producer ends after the exchange of money. What I do after the fact should be of no consequence. The CD is just a bunch of 1s and 0s, on and off bits of matter. True, I cannot start mass producing and selling the game because I did not make it. But what I do in the privacy of my own home is my own business. Mass producing would not be in the privacy of my home, neither would be selling or distributing online.

Companies just want to control you and squeeze ever penny out of you by control schemes like EULAs, which, AFAIK, have yet to be of any legal meaning as proven in a court of law anyhow.

EULAs are control, control, control. It's excessive.

Imagine in the year 2020 where you have to agree to a EULA when buying a roll of toilet paper, paper towels, and napkins.,

The roll of toilet paper EULA says you cannot use the toilet paper for anything except wiping your butt.

The paper towel EULA says you cannot use them for anything except spills of certain fluids or a similar situation.

The napkin EULA says you cannot use them for anything except wiping your face.

In this way they can maximize profit by limiting your use. It's coming, starting with the digital media we use today. Ridiculous.

Hehe my fingers hurt :yes:

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how is this examplesite suppose to work? all i see is the text, no popup, no button, no nothing.. just text..

parhaps my nis2k3 is dealing with this from the start.. :unsure:

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I don't mind banners at all but popups annoy the poop out of me. I remember once I was browsing a site and right when my mother came over to see what I was doing up pops a banner ad saying "see hardcore porn bitches shag farm animals for free!"

I was so embarrassed :blush:

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how can it be stealing? I would close the window anyway, the application just zaps it a lot quicker than I could. I choose to not have windows, and I would close them even without the killer,I is like saying that I am now not allowed to close the windows I don't want anymore.. once I go to a site, I am not allowed to leave..

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this is something ido hope becomes legalized.

blocking popups, stopping ads is theft whether you like it or not.

if someone doesnt like the ads/popups, then someone should stop visiting that site.

it really shouldnt be too hard to implement - display the image/popup, and if it doesnt appear or load, log the ip.

blocking ads/popups should not be a mainstream thing. those that want to stop them will find a way, (just like they find longhorn). but if everyone gets these programs and apps, internet profit/sales/economy will disappear.

if the government stops these big corporations from their kiddy software, the peopel that know something about the net will be able to surf just like before, and the majority of the population will see the popups.

result - economy flourishes, people with an iq higher than their age stop the popups and see no ads, and idiots suffer.

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lets not even get started on EULA's...

1. you can't read them until after you open the package. after you open the package, the product (in most cases) is not returnable. ok, so what if i read the EULA and disagree with it. i'm screwed out of my money.

2. prove that i pressed the "accept" button. i was eating dinner when my cat walked on my keyboard and hit enter. does that mean i agree?

i highly doubt a EULA would ever stand up in an honest courtroom.

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some questions come to mind

why not just go back to banners instead up pop up/under if they want their revenue?

why should I be forced to look at ads? is it law?

so is it theft when I delete spam from my email?

pop up/under ads are wasting my computers memory, (temporary) storage on my HD, much needed bandwidth (for those on dial-up), the cost of wasting time to close these things. are they going to pay me for this, not.

it is funny when people start loosing money, they start blaming everything else but themselves. Why not ask what they are doing wrong.

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Man it sounds like some of you were programmed by the same clowns that write some of those EULA's I read.

You know what?s funny is, I could install software without ever accepting the EULA or reading it if I really felt like it, and who is to know if it was agreed to or not?

I remember reading one from M$ saying that if you didn't agree to the EULA return the software to where you bought it. Odds are if you try returning that software with the reason being you would not accept the EULA either 1, they are not going to know what the hell you are talking about or 2, laugh at you.

As far as pop-ups, pop-unders and whatever else anybody wants to bring up last time I checked the computer I am using was one that I built myself with parts I bought. That to me means that this monitor and every other part is mine.

If I don't want to look at a pop-up ad that is my right. If the pop-up police is going to come kicking my door down to force me to look at it well, then bring it on.

Who care if the pop-up was blocked or not, for some people with slow pcs and who are not fortunate to live in a country where ISP's possess reasonable rates they are actually billed by the minute to use there internet. And really who wants to pay to look at ads? Nobody.

And just like piracy, this can not be stopped for every money grubbing idiot that forces pop-ups down your throat there will be somebody who hates them just as much as you do for not looking at them and will find a way to circumvent your laughable technology.

Booh yah..

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the reason they use popups and not banners is because u can use as much space for popup as you want....^^

personally , i think popups are annoying and should not be considered theft.....anyways....what did i steel from them......i agree with a point made by someone previously.....i chose not to look at those popups and that's why i'm using no-ads software to close them so that i don't need to do them manually......its that simple......if i t were to appear.....i would have closed it manually as well.......

who want to bet that after this thing gets legallized, the next big controversy will be this....: closing the popup windows is illegal and is considered theft........(i know this sounds stupid for most of us.....but trust me...its gonna appear)

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there robbing my bandwidth and causing me trouble of having shut down the pop ups

never will i turn off popupkiller :D

just because of this im gonna update my hosts file to completly block these things

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If they make it illegal for me to block pop up ads, then I will lose all faith in the legal system.

Not only that, I'll fight that ruling with every bean of my body. There shall be no advertisement of which I have no choice in viewing. EVER.

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This is as dumb as people suing Mc for getting fat. Pop ups are the most annoying thing i've ever seen :angry: . I use Norton Firewall to block them I will admit it does slow down opening web pages but thats fine w/ me since I no longer get ads or popups. :D

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