AMM wrote:So it isn't okay for us to "steal advertising revenue" by using ad blockers. But it is perfectly fine for them to steal our computing power. Sorry i'd rather use my spare cycles to fold, not be advertised at by a foreign company who couldn't ship anything to me even if I wanted to use them.
Well... look at it this way -- TR is caught in the middle. They need the ad revenue, but they do not author the ads themselves. The ads are provided by an ad agency that has been hired by Newegg, Crucial, etc. The problem seems to be some combination of poor Flash authoring, crappy behavior from the Flash plugin, and web browser stupidities. There's a potential for a lot of finger-pointing here.
TR seems to be doing what they can to mitigate the situation. And TR isn't the one stealing your CPU cycles... at least not directly.
Yes, I agree it is annoying to have CPU-sucking Flash ads. But I'm willing to take a "wait and see" attitude, to see how this all shakes out. In the meantime, I'll just make sure I close any pages with Flash ads on them, if I'm going to be away from the computer for an extended period of time.