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http://easylist.adblockplus.org/idea.htm
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First, these are my reasons why the current web ad model is bad:- FACT! Most websites have no idea what ads they are serving.
They give an adserving company a space to advertise in on their site and give them full control over that space to serve anything they want in return for $$$. At that point, the site has no control over what its users will see. This is bad! All other media types (newspapers, tv, magazines) have the ability to pre-screen or pre-roll their advertisers. The actual advertiser and the serving media are on a one-to-one basis. Those media types KNOW what they are advertising beforehand. The "Oops, I didn't know that those were x-rated", or "I'm sorry it destroyed your operating sytem", or "Sorry it gave you malware" responses just don't cut it. They won't help the destruction caused to the user's machine. This could be grounds for legal action especially if a site takes action to insist that users see those ads.
- FACT! Almost all malware is cause by exploit scripting, misleading advertising, or adservers just taking 'shoddy' clients or being hacked themselves.
Once again, we are back to ads as the cause of bad things happening to you on the web. Malware and spyware are almost totally non-existent when ads are removed from the equation. Blocking ads not only stops you from seeing them, but because they are blocked at the source, any malicious script served by a 'bad' ad will not come through to the user's computer. "You can't get what you can't get". Adblock Plus is not 100% perfect for that, but it sure helps a lot with the right subscriptions. NO ONE has a perfect system. But you only need one bad ad to screw up your whole computer. There are also strings in the EasyList to stop malicious executions like, "Spyware has been detected on you computer ... click here to get rid of it" ... you know those? A tv or a newspaper never rewrote the info on itself or tried to steal from me because there was a bad ad in it. User's have the legal right to protect themselvesfrom anything they see as even a remote threat to their property or identity if no responsibility is taken by anyone for it happening.
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