Star Chrome Extensions Framework Inching Closer to Prime Time
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Sep 2009 18:08 UTC
Google Probably the most often requested feature for Google's Chrome web browser was an extensions framework so that users can expand the functionality of Chrome in the same way people currently do for Firefox. Chrome has had an extensions framework for a while now, but it was turned off by default. They've now turned it on by default on the dev channel.
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RE[4]: AdBlock
by google_ninja on Fri 11th Sep 2009 21:39 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: AdBlock"
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I suppose you watch every trailer on the movies you buy, and every advertisement on the shows you "tivo" (ok, that one might be a leap, perhaps you don't own a DVR).


I don't watch tv. As for movies, the requirement is that it is displayed, not that you watch it. The equivalent here would be to rip the movie and edit out the commercials.

If the content providers rely so heavily on their advertisements, perhaps they shouldn't use a medium that is so easy to avoid them with.

All I have to do is blacklist a select few domains (I refuse to accept content from said domains), and I've thwarted their plans. Damn...too bad for them.

Or better yet, all I have to do is disable javascript or flash or images altogether and I've immediately thwarted their plans.


It is their server, their bandwidth, and their content that you are consuming. It is their choice both whether or not, and also how, they want to subsidize their content. As a consumer of that content, you have no right in the ethical sense to make those choices for them.

You can do it, you can get away with it, it is legal, and nobody will ever know. To me, situations like this are what really test the ethical fiber of a person.

Personally, I try to be the best person I can be. For me, that means going beyond what is required of me by law, and doing the thing I know is right.

You are completely correct that this is a risk free, legal thing to do, and if you choose to do it that is totally up to you. However, that was not what I was talking about, I was talking about doing the right thing, which is not exploiting a loophole just because it is there.

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