Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads'

Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by lagadu on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:38PM (#11456407)

Because I want to. The publisher is free to put a paywall up; of course we know they won't because nobody will ever pay even $1 for the overwhelming majority of the content they have and no publisher in the world has control over my browser, running on my hardware, running on my power so they don't get to prevent me from going around their funny little anti-adblock scripts.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by TheLogothete on Saturday April 09, 2016 @07:53AM (#11460896)

You click on a link that you know has advertising

2) The site tells you, "hey, we see that you run adblock. If you want to consume our content you have to disable that. If you don't want to disable your adblock, bye."

3)You still go ahead to consume the content.

In what universe this is OK?

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by ultramancool on Saturday April 09, 2016 @11:30AM (#11461674)

In a universe where their server still gives you the content.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by TheLogothete on Saturday April 09, 2016 @12:58PM (#11462054)

If a door is open but has a sign "do not enter" above it, should you enter?

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by ultramancool on Saturday April 09, 2016 @01:39PM (#11462294)

If what I want is inside, yes, always.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by TheLogothete on Saturday April 09, 2016 @02:51PM (#11462691)

Self-entitlement. Google it.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by ultramancool on Saturday April 09, 2016 @03:18PM (#11462814)

Yeah - I'm very entitled to my own computer and I'll use it as I damn well please. Would you expect me to have any other attitude towards my own hardware?

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by TheLogothete on Saturday April 09, 2016 @03:56PM (#11463003)

You are not entitled to other people's computers.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by ultramancool on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:24PM (#11463133)

Yup, that's completely correct. No argument there.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by TheLogothete on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:23PM (#11463410)

Then why do you access their computers when they have explicitly said they don't want you to? Even further, you circumvent a system they have put in place to stop you from accessing their property.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by ultramancool on Saturday April 09, 2016 @06:10PM (#11463588)

Because they gave it to me and I just decided how to render it locally on my own computer? There was no unauthorized access as you're suggesting. Blame their server I guess. I'm only working with what they give me.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by TheLogothete on Sunday April 10, 2016 @02:45AM (#11465209)

You are straight out denying the reality.

They didn't give it to you. They put a wall and said "You cannot pass this wall with adblock turned on". You decided to circumvent it. Because...?

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by ultramancool on Sunday April 10, 2016 @03:28AM (#11465286)

You need to look at where the code executes in reality.

Their "wall" as you describe it is actually just client-side code which runs on _my_ computer, not theirs, so I get to decide how it executes. It would be completely different if the "wall" was on the server side of course (for example, a paywall).

If it's on my computer, it's under my control. Just because it came from their server does not mean it has any rights on my computer at all. They're not entitled to my computer.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by TheLogothete on Sunday April 10, 2016 @05:02AM (#11465487)

You are fetching their property and do not respect their rules. No matter how much you squirm and squeeze, this is objectively not OK to do.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by ultramancool on Sunday April 10, 2016 @10:33AM (#11466253)

I'm obeying their rules for fetching their property. I'm just not obeying their proposal for client side execution where they have no authority.

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