Re: AdNauseam extension blocked
Posted: 2017-08-28, 01:07
I had no idea Pale Moon even had a blocklist. I can change the URLs to localhost, but how do I disable it completely?
Discussion forum for the Pale Moon web browser
https://forum.palemoon.org/
You blatantly assume my position, and are presenting a double standard. You are attacking advertisers for doing things that are perfectly legal, then defending your own actions as saying it is fine because it is perfectly legal. I have no love of such companies, but such a clearly destructive way of fighting is unacceptable and your argument for your position abysmal.Defiant wrote: The only people telling us we shouldn't use it are engaged in wide spread psychological influence. They're making money by screwing with our heads day in and day out. They effect our lives in ways most of us do not recognize. The Internet is not an advertisement. There's nothing built in, no law, that forces us to tolerate this massive invasion of privacy. People such as yourself, who welcome that with open arms, you are most certainly part of the problem.
Firefox has a blocklist too.redblade7 wrote:I had no idea Pale Moon even had a blocklist.
The people are the problem, not the thread. So there is no reason to close it. Deal with the problem where it is, though I don't think people wanting to express outrage without having anything worth saying is necessarily a reason to kick them out, especially when they have no place to go. Too many threads get unnecessarily closed here.kevopa wrote:Because this thread informing users about an illegal extension that has been blacklisted has devolved into a bunch of people calling the lead developer names and blackmailing him, I'd request this thread to be closed.
I think it is reasonable to assume that changing the blocking level setting will not uninstall any previously installed addons. So I would think it is as simple as change the setting, install the addon, then restore the block list setting to what it was before. So there should be no risk or vulnerability at all unless you forgot to change the setting back for some odd reason before installing more addons. Someone correct me if I am wrong.ozoak wrote: And so now let me get this logic right, if my assumptions are largely correct: I order to facilitate a user enabling an extension that does no harm to their own system, they must weaken their defences and make their system vulnerable to threats which do actually target a users system?
Sorry, but no, you're incorrect. The block list level takes effect on already-installed extensions as well.adisib wrote:I think it is reasonable to assume that changing the blocking level setting will not uninstall any previously installed addons. So I would think it is as simple as change the setting, install the addon, then restore the block list setting to what it was before. So there should be no risk or vulnerability at all unless you forgot to change the setting back for some odd reason before installing more addons. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
I created this thread in direct anticipation of people throwing a fit over the block, because we're talking about activism. Proponents of AdNauseam are activists and going to be vocal. In lieu of having 1000 threads opened with obvious repeat questions, I intended to inform with this thread. Was I wrong in trying to be as clear as possible?ozoak wrote:is every addition to the block list graced with a forum thread announcing the addition? I should think that on review the awareness that it needed an announcement speaks to the quality of the decision itself.
You spoke my mind!Cassette wrote:Really, if you are extremely upset by this, there isn't a browser in existence that would satisfy you.
Might be true, but the argument against this ban is another point entirely, purely symbolic if you will.adesh wrote:You spoke my mind!Cassette wrote:Really, if you are extremely upset by this, there isn't a browser in existence that would satisfy you.
This is the first time I am hearing about AdNauseam and I don't see what the utility of this extension is for a user. Ad networks may be bad, immoral and a nuisance but generating false clicks is also a lying big, and unethical.
Enough with the trolling, before the browser (or any program) allows you to do anything, it has to allow what it does for itself. This decision was not made for you, but for the browser itself. The browser now considers that extension problematic/malware or whatever, it hasn't decided what you should consider about anything, or crushed your freedom of thinking/speech/love etc. I'd totally lock this thread, everyone had their say and now we're going the troll circles. I am sure you can take the "FreeAdNauseam" crusade elsewhere...Vlad the implier wrote:...
Did you read the rules and conditions of using this forum? Or the webbrowser? Fork the browser if you don't like the terms and conditions. See app.php/rules if you have not read the forum rules. To quote the board maker.Giraffe wrote:This really is evil dictatorship - I'm so glad that it didn't happen with, say, Flash, otherwise I might have had to go to all the trouble of enabling that.
This is not a democracy. You are in my house, and you are my guests.
Please behave yourself accordingly.
I think Giraffe's post was ironic, so your reply probably doesn't really apply there directly.testator777 wrote:Did you read the rules and conditions of using this forum? Or the webbrowser? Fork the browser if you don't like the terms and conditions. See app.php/rules if you have not read the forum rules. To quote the board maker.