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Originally Posted by knc1
To bad user #3 is otherwise busy -
He might have noticed the large number of web sites that are detecting AdBlocker Plus and requiring it being disabled for viewing the site.
Which makes sense - someone using AdBlocker Plus will not increase the revenue stream - only add load to the server.
So better (on a for-profit web-site) that they just go-away.
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For ten days, I visited here only as a "no account" visitor, and I intentionally turned OFF my AdBlockPlus as I do that for all sites I like (a Golden Rule thing). I only turn it back on for sites with oversized banner ads or similar that make the site painful to use. But then I was forced to turn AdBlockPlus back on after I got a "Your computer is infected!" ad. My concern was about similar ads that can infect a computer without even clicking them, and some very large well-known ISPs are known to do MITM http code-injection to overlay ads with their own (why github and other sites are now https-only), but any gateway router between here and there can inject its own content into an insecure http stream (including intercepting and modifying login cookies).
Anyway, because it is the non-members eyeballs (and ad-clicks) that pay the bills, and us members are not faced with those revenue-generating ads, those non-members are the REAL customers here. The attitude you expressed about non-members (commonly expressed by store clerks on busy days as "this job would be much better without all these [expletive deleted] customers") is counter-productive to the longevity of our posts.
Now in my case, I appreciate the customers and their eyeballs and ad-clicks (except potential "identity theft" ads like I experienced), in hopes that my content here will remain visible to future generations long after my demise.
Now, back to my non-CRP battery testing. I want to fix the low-capacity dead-battery cowards-rescue-pack diags-boot-loop problem I am facing. In the future, with old batteries, others will have this problem too, so we might as will fix it now while it is fresh in our minds.