Recently http://jacklewis.net/weblog/ banned Firefox users because of the possibility that they use the Adblock extension. I don't know what the blog/site is all about and don't really care; however, I find the whole thing very petty. The percentage of people who block ads is very small even in the ranks of Firefox users (ok, I have no hard data to back this up.. just a feeling), and allowing the people who DO block ads to view the site isn't hurting anything. But anyway, Firefox isn't the only browser out there. It's just as easy to block ads with Opera.
With opera you can use "blocked content" to block certain hosts/urls. This lets you stop the loading of ad scripts. The problem is that jacklewis.net has a small bit of javascript that verifies that the ads are actually there. How to get around this:
in site preferences:
- Uncheck "Scripting / Enable JavaScript"
- Uncheck "Network / Enable automatic redirection"
This may disable some extra functionality of the site. As I'm not an actual user of the site I can't say for sure. Another option that's slightly more work is to add some a line to your User JS file:
window.opera.defineMagicFunction('dieAdBlockPlusDie', function () {});
These aren't ways to block the ads on the page; It's up to you to figure that out, but if you already are blocking the advertising (especially google ads since that's what it's checking) then you can use the above methods to disable the "adblock" check.
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