adblock plus, good or bad for the internet?

[Warrior]

^i no longer use Firefox.

i only use Chrome and it has Ad Block but i don't have a problem with it

Enjoy Google spying on everything you do on the net

[treos]

lol and googles primary source of $ is the very ads everyone hates. i like the search engine and they're image search (now THAT is a useful/helpful search engine function ) but beyond that, i wouldn't support them by using they're browser.

[Combusto Dragon]

Enjoy Google spying on everything you do on the net

unless you are using DoNotTrackMe extension so Google will not track you

[Aeolus Aeneas]

exactly

i think we can all agree, with whats been said so far, that adblockers aren't about to bring about the end of ads. if anything they may simply cause some good changes. well, unless some people are too stuck in they're ways and choose to simply block adblocker users or users of a certain browser (thats a bit overkill don't you think?).

I still remember when blip.tv tried to force ABP users to disable it by making us sit through 90 seconds of silence. All the while ABP lists were adapting to it, and ultimately they were beaten by people who refused to give in. Those were dull times, sitting through a minute and a half of nothing to get to a video... but worth it. So worth it; the price that had to be paid to not have to sit through, at the most, an ad at the start and end of the video, and potentially up to three in the video itself.

I think the worst part of it though was the intense backlash that came from seemingly nowhere when you actually said you supported ABP during all of it. But then, nature of the beast, I suppose.