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Monday, August 20, 2007

Are you a thieving Firefox user?

I am not going to suggest that advertising revenue is not important in the overall web business model scheme of things, for a huge swathe of such enterprises it is vital. But suggesting that using ad-blocking technology within your web browser client is tantamount to theft is just daft. Not as daft as blocking anyone who uses the Firefox client because it comes with some rather effective ad-blocking technology built in, mind you, but daft nonetheless. The fact that one site has done both is shockingly stupid.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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