"Wladimir Palant, maker of the Firefox extension Adblock Plus, on Monday proposed a change in his software that would allow publishers, with the consent of Adblock Plus users, to prevent their ads from being blocked. Palant suggested altering his software to recognize a specific meta tag as a signal to bring up an in-line dialog box noting the site publisher’s desire to prevent ad blocking. The user would then have to choose to respect that wish or not."
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From Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites.
Heh, funny. Let me guess: publishers will ever desire to prevent ad-blocking and the user won’t respect that wish (the fact the user has installed an ad-block program should be a clue).
