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Skimming through the comments here and in the comment section of the ABP blog it seems to me that most people simply don't bother to read Wladimir's proposal or the reading comprehension must be in the gutter. How else can one explain all the inane comments people make that have all been either addressed by Palant in the first place or in one of his many follow-up comments.

1) It's not planned that you'll be asked for each site if you want to unblock ads. An algorithm will keep track of sites you repeatedly visit and will only then ask if you wish to unblock ads. And this 1 times a week tops (provided history is enabled).

2) This will not be a popup but will use the same notification bar that is already employed by the password storage and popup blocker.

3) There will be an opt-out option for people who can't be arsed with ads at all.

4) The suggested meta tag will not disable ABP, only signal that the site has been marked as having "user-friendly" ads, a term which yet has to be defined correctly. If everybody abuses the meta tag without altering his site to make ads less annoying there's still the possibility to turn off the meta tag completely and ABP will return to its former behaviour. Talk about shooting in your own foot.

5) There talk about a second approach which will categorize ads (text, flash, image, etc) if solutions to some technical obstacles will be found.

6) Wladimir is looking into Weave for syncing decisions between different Firefox installations.