Comments on: Banning Opera?

By: Not Just Another Blog » Blog Archive » Smileygenerator.us blocks Opera and Firefox

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:49:43 +0000

[...] I guess this one beats environmentalchemistry episode by a mile(in case you are wondering what I am talking about please see this and this).I am angry with smileygenerator, but even more than that I am dissapointed to see such immature behaviour from them.Actually now if you want to use smileygenerator you would either have to use ua.ini or else fake your useragent using Proxomitron(whose principal task is to block ads and pop-ups).Not only that Maxthon is a webbrowser that comes with an adblocker included.But you can acces that site without the ads on Maxthon.Ironical.Isnt it? [...]

By: SMF

SMF — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:26:18 +0000

I love Opera I have been using Opera for ages and I will never stop using it. I dont care about ads and I have no clue what people are talking about but to me Opera is the best and fastest browser on earth:) If some one blocks me I just google and find another site with the same content:) Long live Opera. DIE MS

By: me myself i

me myself i — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:14:23 +0000

Even if Opera no longer has banner ads, just wanted to say that Ken is a complete and utter fool. If I want to block ads, I will. Before I purchased opera 6, I blocked their banner ads with a firewall. It is my computer my property and will do with it as I want. If I want to see ads I’ll allow, if I don’t I won’t. For someone to try and force the issue is just stupid beyond belief. It is like I took a taxi to theater A and a rival theater B had ads on the taxi so theater A was setting road blocks so taxis with theater Bs ad were blocked from reaching theater A. If ken can’t understand how stupid that is his site and his business deserves to go out of business.

By: Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:00:48 +0000

Blocking Opera and Firefox: Yet another silly webmaster

There are webmasters out there who don’t like that the ads they’re showing on their web pages can be blocked. Which is understandable, of course - ads give them a revenue so that they can keep on doing what they do. How webmasters react to …

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:17:23 +0000

“As such, my protest against Opera has ended and I have disabled my Opera blocking routines…”

So what? I’m STILL not going to visit your sites. Your attitude to this has been highly spurious and has possibly lost you income. Opera users have had to deal with the sad blocking tactics of MS and work that through. Their arguments were just as dodgy as yours and generated bad feeling among potential consumers. And as you ought to know, when someone has a bad experience they tell everyone.

By: Svein KÃ¥re

Svein KÃ¥re — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:32:46 +0000

Nice. I was thinking about you and what you would do as I got the news that Opera now is free.

By: Ken Barbalace

Ken Barbalace — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:57:09 +0000

For what seems to be logical business reasons (see http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/show.dml/22892) Opera Software has decided to stop using advertising in the toolbar to generate revenue as of Opera v8.5. As such, my protest against Opera has ended and I have disabled my Opera blocking routines on all of my websites. Opera users are no longer being discrimintated against on any of my websites.

By: Preet

Preet — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:55:58 +0000

Well Kenneth, you have a negative side effect. I have a registered version of Opera which has NO ads and does not block any ads. I am still blocked from visiting your site. Your site discriminates against my choice of browser for no apparent reason, since I am playing by your rules. Which leads me to just ignore your websites existence, which gains no revenue for you.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:21:35 +0000

Wow. Classic supervillain psychology. Point the gun at the hostage while explaining that it’s your enemy’s fault if/when you pull the trigger.

By: Banned

Banned — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:19:59 +0000

Check out the discussion at the Forums and see the nonsensical posts of this guy:

http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=72071291e6263b6373c2b5774a6f0a5a&threadid=94999&perpage=25&pagenumber=3

There must be another reason for his behaviour.