Only Thieves Block Pop-Ups

aurelian writes "It's official: using browsing the web while blocking pop-up ads and other such exciting website enhancements is theft. Anti-leech.com are offering to protect your site from browsers blocking pop-ups (or 'theft tools' as they call them) - just try stealing from them with your favourite pop-up free browser. (I picked this up on the phoenix discussion forum...)"

how familiar

[Dolly_Llama]

"...you can easily CHOSE..."

Taco...how could you??

Good!

[fobbman]

This will spur on the programmers to make sure that they create more effective pop-up stoppers, which should be completed in 5...4...3...2...

sure.. and let's not forget...

[jedie]

changing the channel when a commercial break starts is a major fellony too!

Just maybe...

[unterderbrucke]

...we'll all slashdot the site, and we won't have to worry about idiots like them anymore.

Tech fix

[Henry V .009]

Oh my. We're going to have to improve pop-up stoppers to defeat this technology.

Well, I'd better free up 45-50 minutes for coding sometime in the next week.

Just stealing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why be shy. Blocking ads should should be considered terrorism. We need an amendment to the patriot bill.

I think there should be more popups

[NakedShavedPussyGuy]

showing pictures of naked, shaved pussy. [virtually.net]

Best Solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't we just replace the outdated WWW with X clients, and make eveyone run X servers? That way, web sites can draw whatever they want on your display. It would really eliminate all this slow javscript and HTML which requires a huge browser to interpret and render. Isn't mark-up just a kludge (tell a browser how to render pages), when you can simply render the pages directly? X is a much cleaner solution, IMHO.

LOL!

[Anonymous Coward]

What does that do!?? I deactivated javascript and entered, nothing special happened.. and i didn't get any popups, etc... ;-)

Some people have a lot of time to waste.

I like this message better.

[banal avenger]

I think it would be more effective if the message it gave was this [anti-leech.com].

Sometimes, you just have to...

[dacetone]

This [anti-leech.com] was quite a shocker for me...

Cool.

[Wakko Warner]

Now there is something that will alert me when a website is no longer worth visiting. Thank you, Anti-Leech Dot Com! I am sure your IPO will net you hundreds of dollars.

- A.P.

Man jailed for goat sex

[lizzybarham]

That link is to an article about some man that had sex with a goat.

That denial message is pretty harsh!

[oakbox]

When I read the 'denial' message here [anti-leech.com], I was pretty shocked. I can't believe that they think this kind of thing makes people want to come back to their site.

And how about foolishly allowing people to alter the URL and change the message? How stupid is that?

Oakbox

Re:can't believe this

[jon787]

Thats what I say! I think last time I pointed that out I got modded down to troll.

Some high quality coding right there.

[Zenithal]

For a more amusing and accurate description of their opinion on ad-blocking browsers, check out this informative access denied page.

Blocked by Anti-Leech.com [anti-leech.com]

Re:sure.. and let's not forget...

[Turbyne]

Darn! I'm gonna hafta watch pr0n the old fashioned way: left hand on alt+F4, right hand on...

For any broadcaster that dares let their photons onto my property, prepare to meet the wrath of tresspassing charges. If you want to let your ads onto my property, I expect to be fully compensated for it at standard billboard rates (1 frame = 1 billboard). While I'm at it, I might as well sue Kiss-108 FM for giving me cancer due to their EM radiation, and deafness from their bad music.

Re:hmmm

[seizer]

No, something more like this [anti-leech.com] :-)

Letter to their support address

[Hnice]

Hi,

You offer a much-needed service. As a future enhancement, you might consider simply releasing a list of your clients, so i can avoid attemtpting to view their pages altogether. I'd be more than willing to wwork on things on the server side to redirect free-loading http requests from a popup-blocker to a similar site which does not block access via your service.

Please let me know if you would like to collaborate, I'm offering my services for free, and I'll be sure to forward this same offer to any of your clients I come across, to prevent them from having to handle unneccessary traffic. In fact, it would probably be worthwhile for me to start collecting a list of your clients myself and making them available, along with lists of alternate sites with similar content. Please let me know if you'd like to help, as it should make your job a lot easier. If we can redirect all traffic from your client sites, you shouldn't have to worry much at all about blocking free-loaders. Thanks,

Henry Quinn
Brooklyn NY

Re:can't believe this

[ewen]

bandwidth theft?.. they're stealing OUR bandwidth by polluting our pakets with junk

The solution to all this blocking is obvious: advertising in each packet. I can see it now...

This packet brought to you by the letters I and P, and the number 4.

Ewen

How many internet beats left...

[Anonymous Coward]

How many internet beats do you all suppose are left before the money that controls things requires you not to view their stupid ads, but also insists you must buy their product/patronize their service, etc., and considers failure to do so... "theft"?

How long before the internet basically turns into interactive television, with annoying, randomly timed advertisements...

Enjoy COKE! The refreshing flavor of Coca Cola is just what you need right NOW!

... popping up right in the middle of whatever it is you're trying to view? Perhaps it is time to bring into existance a new, commercial-free internet, and leave all the AOL'ers and money people behind?

Just a thought...

Re:sure.. and let's not forget...

[Mister Transistor]

And here I thought typos were due to being stoned...

Re:can't believe this

[Jedi Alec]

This failed attempt to access your computer through port 80 was brought you by C0C4 C014. Always C0C4 C014!

Re:Just fine by me

[Anonymous Coward]

"Remember when the web was actually about content?
"

Actually, no. I just remember 19 year old assholes with no knowledge becoming paper millionaires. I think one of them just rang up my bill at the convenience store.

Re:Tech fix

[Jedi Alec]

Now that actually sounds like something I might want to buy ;-)

Re:Hey! I got that label on Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

deaf (though a text-to-speech converter)

Hehehe.

hypocrits? not us

[fbg111]

I was curious enough to try anti-leech.com, with an unexpected yet illuminating result.

Load the page in Mozilla with "Open Unrequested Windows" disabled, and get a short message saying I'm not allowed to view the page b/c I'm using a pop-up blocker.

I disable Mozilla's popup blocker and load the page again. This time I get the anti-leech.com home page, along with the expected pop-up ad. Lo and behold, the popup ad is advertising Cable TV Descramblers.

So let me get this straight. They want me to stop stealing from them by using a popup blocker so they can try to sell me a way to steal from cable companies using a descrambler.

uhmmm, riiiiight. If you're going to be a hypocrit, at least try to be clever about it.

Re:Just fine by me

[Goldberg's Pants]

LOL! While I suffered at the hands of the dot com bust, it is rather amusing to see these paper millionaries that were on CNBC be touted as the future of business now slinging waffles at Dennys.

For a good laugh

[emkman]

Run the Anti-Leech security tester [anti-leech.com] on "your site" - www.anti-leech.com
then see all the source and links that are visible, and howly poorly written "your site" is.

Website access denied

[Phroggy]

Is this what it's supposed to say? [anti-leech.com]

Re:I Already Figured it Out...

[rmohr02]

Yes, if you put your email in their database they will somehow find a way to keep you from getting spam from people they aren't selling your address to.

Re:Just fine by me

[broken]

Dear MATTCOHN.COM,

you just published a way to circunvent their protection mechanism, which falls under the DMCA. Expect a letter from our lawyers soon.

Sincerely,
Antileech.com :)

Re:Just fine by me

[fenix down]

I like the message. Especially the way the whole thing's in the URL [anti-leech.com]. I can just have hours of fun with that.

I'm a fucker for pointing this out, but somebody would've figured it out anyway. look. [anti-leech.com]

Be careful, kids. Get Phoenix and block images on a per-domain basis today!

very funny!

[twitter]

Ha ha ha [anti-leech.com]

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Re:Just fine by me

[poiuyt23]

That's a pity... You won't get to see the pop-up that I did on their server, asking me if I knew that owning a cable descrambler wasn't illegal.

Best laugh I had all day...

Re:Just fine by me

[EvilAlien]

Hey, if they say its ok, why not? [anti-leech.com]

Maybe they could end up bombed by leaving this so open... [anti-leech.com]

Oh well, just a bit of childish fun at the pop-up lovers expense.

Re:Hey! I got that label on Slashdot

[Darthnice]

You can watch the superbowl for $1 with commercials, or $30 without.

How much would it be to watch just the Superbowl ads? Every game I've seen hasn't been nearly as cool as that dot-com monkey.

Re:very funny!

[cicatrix1]

I like this one [anti-leech.com].

Re:Just fine by me

[jonadab]

You're right, this is fun! [anti-leech.com]

This just in...

[Xeth]

Motorists not staring at billboards for a full ten seconds are now considered thieves, and will be prosecuted accordingly. Time to invest in Geico...

Oh the hypocrisy of it all....

[Anonymous Coward]

The amusing thing is that also advertised on the SAME PAGE as the "anti-theft" programme is an anti-spam program which supposedly blocks spam, and removes ads from email...

Don't you just love hypocrisy in action??

Re:Just fine by me

[zapfie]

Man, you just fell for the oldest trick in the /. book. :)

Re:Hey! I got that label on Slashdot

[dasunt]

void wakeup( ){
...
do_slashdot( );
do_coffee( );
...
}

Think I found the bug.

Re:Just fine by me

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Antileech.com,

Your software counteracts the protection mechanism in our web browsers. Further, your web site discusses methods of circumventing that protection. You are in violation of the DMCA and will be contacted by our attourneys shortly.

Sincerely,
Slashdot.org

Re:Hey! I got that label on Slashdot

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Because its the new law. You'd look pretty stupid with a drivers license and no car, and if you dont have a drivers license you're obviously terrorist scum.

Re:Just fine by me

[JCCyC]

Mine was a little different. It went like this:

I use pop-up and cookie blocking in my browser. Am I a thief? You seem to think so, but I'd like you to say that in public, using my real name (Juan Carlos Castro y Castro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). I encourage you to say it as publicly and loudly as you can. (maybe a list of Known Thieves on your website, what about that?) No subterfuges, please. Say "XXX is a thief", with all letters. I'm kinda short on money, and a libel suit is as good a way to get some as any.