> [..] Ghostery appears to be the ultimate do-not-track plugin.
Then it's not evil, is it? If you have to manually opt-in by installing an add-on, how can it be evil?
> AdBlock silently removes all advertising and social buttons
AdBlock exists because users got fed up of massively intrusive advertising. If advertisers had thought a little more long term, AdBlock would be a dead project.
> What makes me angry about the AdBlock plugin is that the author – while happy to destroy our revenue stream – is also profiteering from the very same free content model by asking for PayPal donations when the plugin is installed. Talk about hypocrisy.
Asking for money via a different route other than advertising is not hyprocrisy.
> If advertisers had though[t] a little more long term
Quite. It is ironic that the author is appealing to users to think a little more long term and tolerate all these cynical, short-termist ads to support his preferred revenue stream.
> [..] Ghostery appears to be the ultimate do-not-track plugin.
Then it's not evil, is it? If you have to manually opt-in by installing an add-on, how can it be evil?
> AdBlock silently removes all advertising and social buttons
AdBlock exists because users got fed up of massively intrusive advertising. If advertisers had thought a little more long term, AdBlock would be a dead project.
> What makes me angry about the AdBlock plugin is that the author – while happy to destroy our revenue stream – is also profiteering from the very same free content model by asking for PayPal donations when the plugin is installed. Talk about hypocrisy.
Asking for money via a different route other than advertising is not hyprocrisy.