Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking

Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by fulafel on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:13AM (#10697229)

The whole current conversation about this is weird. Why are people acting like ad blockers are new when iOS, a mobile platform with a small market share, stops banning them and gets back in line with everyone else?

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by tdkl on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:40AM (#10697461)

It's how you get attention to John Doe, who doesn't cares about ad-blocking until Apple does.

Similarly how this "dilemma" is again rehashed because Mozilla made a content blocker. Not that about 10 others sprung out since September where the content blocking support was introduced.

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by pitay on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @01:42AM (#10702278)

That suggests Mozilla is least influenced by the ad serving networks. I like that.

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by ashark on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:23AM (#10697315)

A lot of sites receive a huge percentage of their views from iOS devices. Way, way more than Android/iOS/WinMobile/Desktop market share stats might lead one to suppose.

Not that I'm anti-adblocker—src attributes are a suggestion—just guessing why people might be freaking out about this.

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