Adblock Fuss

I'm a big fan of Adblock Plus - it's a great add on if you don't want to be hit over the head with any number of spinning, flashing adverts torn straight from the pages of Dante.However, an interesting change has been made to the program with the release of 2.0 and some users are up in arms about it:Click to Enlarge"Adblock Plus has also been configured to allow non-intrusive advertising. You can change this selection at any time in the filter preferences."Blasphemy? Madness? Sparta? Who knows, but we now have a situation where users aren't happy about the opt in by default setting, or indeed approving adverts in general no matter how limited the scope. There's a page on the Adblock Plus site that outlines some of the reasons for this change:"You can allow some of the advertising that is considered not annoying. By doing this you support websites that rely on advertising but choose to do it in a non-intrusive way...In the long term the web will become a better place for everybody, not only Adblock Plus users. Without this feature we run the danger that increasing Adblock Plus usage will make small websites unsustainable." (continue reading...)