For a touch of e-Marketing

2 Posts on hacking... not exactly the purpose of this blog, I suppose (though a company should really know it inside and out, since it poses potential threats).

For those that don't know, AdBlock Plus is possibly the greatest ad blocking program online today - and most people don't even use it (it's calculated to be used by 5% of all Firefox users, which isn't a huge percentage). Those that use it, love it though (and I really shouldn't be sharing the secret, or else companies would start making workarounds (which are easy to do, by the way).

AdBlock, however, was not purposefully meant to stop websites from generating profit - it was only meant to stop how ANNOYING some of those attempts at profits are. Currently, AdBlock is working on a fairer method of ad blocking - asking users whether certain sites they visit often should be flagged or not. I hope it goes well, since for the most part, most websites understand that ads that are too disruptive aren't going to sell anything anyways, and most people understand that the ads can sometimes even be well thought out and funny (People unblock ads on Reddit and Penny Arcade for this sort of reason).

Unfortunately, a lot of sites still don't get it. And until I stop seeing my toolbar flash with the words "3 popup windows blocked on this site," I'm not taking down my adblocker for anything.