Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:49 pm
Summary of the feedback so far: http://adblockplus.org/blog/an-approach ... ck-summary
Ads were yesterday!
https://forum.adblockplus.org/
Nobody will understand a change of icon or what they are supposed to do with that. Animation on the other hand is far more annoying than the notification bar.Original Anonymous wrote:How about you change the adblock icon instead? Turn it into a ? inside the octagon. Perhaps maybe even blink it at a very long interval
There is no problem with the list growing in size, Adblock Plus can handle that easily. Even if the user no longer visits a site all that frequently - he still trusts the publisher to use only ads that aren't annoying.Another thing to consider is that people have shifting interests. A site visited frequently during week #1 may not make it to the list during week #2. At that point, it should be automatically removed from the list. Without this heuristic pruning, the list would only grow in size until potentially, every site is enabled.
I think these people have bigger problems...Finally, and this is probably moot, but what if adblock is running on a family computer, and several people share the same user name?
But then, please don't ask the user once a week wether he really wants to disable this feature or not. Infinite loop.IceDogg wrote:dashoes, then you can disable it. That's the point it's up to the user.
Haha - I actually laughed out loud at this. Well, kinda snorted with that silly feeling in the middle of my lungs. Picturing the loop, and some poor sod just trying to say no.ecjs wrote:But then, please don't ask the user once a week wether he really wants to disable this feature or not. Infinite loop.IceDogg wrote:dashoes, then you can disable it. That's the point it's up to the user.
That's not how he said it was going to work. If you disable it.. it's disabled period. The once a week mentioned is an estimate (or maybe a maximum) on how often it would come up for a site you visit often.. IF you have this option enabled.ecjs wrote:But then, please don't ask the user once a week wether he really wants to disable this feature or not. Infinite loop.
It makes me quite mad, none of us really agreed to this, people flood their websites with adverts because the user has no choice, well now we do.The Web is governed by an unwritten contract: You get nearly everything for free in exchange for the hassle of a few ads hovering on the periphery—and occasionally across the whole screen for a few seconds
Well, maybe only billions, but I couldn't agree more. Thanks for saying it.Princess_Frosty wrote:Throwing trillions of ads out there to catch a handful of people that actually generate revenue through clicks is a BAD business model, thats a problem between the business wanting to promote products and the advertisers, why the hell are the users are getting dragged into it?