Firefox Adblock Plus and (a little) more

[Computer Hope Admin]

Very interesting and disturbing post about the Adblock Plus add-on. I don't personally use this add-on but I'd imagine some of you out there to.

http://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users

[Dias de verano]

You can go into about:config in Firefox and toggle the value of noscript.firstRunRedirection to "false" then you won't see the ads on the home page every time Noscript insists on updating.

[patio]

Nice Tip Dias...Thanx !

[evilfantasy]

I've been following this story at few different places. What he did was very disturbing and sad to say that it will probably follow him forever now.

The NoScript author made NoScript interfere with AdBlockPlus to forcibly prevent it from disabling the adverts on the NoScript website. That's what malware does.

Dear Adblock Plus and NoScript Users, Dear Mozilla Community
Giorgio Maone: "I screwed up. Big time. Not just with Adblock Plus users but with the Mozilla community at large. I did something extremely wrong, which I will regret forever. I abused the power and wasted the enormous trust capital gained by the NoScript add-on through the years to prevent Adblock Plus from blocking stuff on four internet domains of mine, without asking an explicit preemptive user consent. This is absolutely inexcusable. Something I would never conceive again for the life of me. Please let me apologize first, then briefly explain what happened from a slightly different point of view than Wladimir Palant’s, then apologize again..."
http://hackademix.net/2009/05/04/dear-adblock-plus-and-noscript-users-dear-mozilla-community/

[patio]

Personally i feel no remorse for him...abuse of trust is something that you should never do...
I dropped NoScript over 10 months ago because the script adds he authored wrecked my FFox profile and i haven't looked back since.

His apology rings hollow to me.