A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?
Found on Slashdot on Thursday, 16 August 2007
A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and are therefor 'stealing money' from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: 'Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.'
Hm, I use a rather old IE, but ads are blocked perfectly. My hosts file is filled with hostnames of adservers, and a local proxy does a nice job filtering annoying scripts and ads. If this guy doesn't want me too to visit his site, I happily add it to my blocklist.