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A comment on AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage. Parent comment

Re:AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage by mschuster91 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @09:09AM (#7743493)
I don't care about the "visual noise" of normal/banner-type ads - the real problem are those fucking layer ads with confusing icons (the X is the left one, the maximize button the right one), so if you want to read the content, first find out which type of layer ad it is, try to spot the 2x2px hotzone for the close button and THEN read the content.

People install adblockers because too many idiots became too fucking greedy and ruined ads for everyone else!

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Re:AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage by cookiecaper on Thursday May 15, 2014 @01:29AM (#7747989)
Completely agree. I'm usually OK without an adblocker until I wander over to Phoronix.
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Re:AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage by orclev on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:58PM (#7747252)
Exactly, they had their chance, and they abused the privilege, so now we've taken it away.
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Re:AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage by wutbrodo on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @10:59PM (#7747684)
Tell me about it man; I found that food was getting kind of expensive at some of the restaurants I frequented so now I just dine-and-dash, several times a week. Restaurants as a whole had their chance to charge me for food, they abused it, so I took that right away.

/s

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Re:AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage by simoncarter on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:57AM (#7748287)
I can’t figure out if you’re making a sarcastic point in rebuttal against orclev, or, because the analogy is so bad, taking the piss out of people who would use that analogy.
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