關於之前提及禁止Firefox瀏覽器的網站：http://jacklewis.net

文章取自他的blog，提一下我是用Opera上他的網站，並且把廣告都過濾了。

August 27, 2007
You might be a FF Fanboy....

I'd only heard about the FF Fanboys recently. These are the people, mostly adolescent, or adolescent acting males who display a cult-like allegiance to the FireFox web browser. Lots of people use FireFox simply because they like it. There are some good things about FF. A lot, if not most people who use it do so for legitimate reasons. But the Fanboys treat it more like a gang or a cult. Here's are some clues to tell if you might be a FF Fanboy...

If you think blocking all ads because a few advertisers use unethical or annoying techniques is perfectly within your rights; but a site owner blocking FireFox because it's the only way to block all ad block users is unethical because it punishes innocent people...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you think the best way to prove you're not a thief is to run automated scripts to steal bandwidth from whoever you think called you one...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you think rational arguments consist of name-calling and lots and lots of profanity...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you think Mitchell Baker can walk on water...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you've ever insisted that FireFox has absolutely no security flaws...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you consider anyone who doesn't think FireFox is the absolute best browser ever, an anti-FireFox hatemonger...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you've ever read through dozens of comments describing how to hack a site that blocks or contains information not flattering of FireFox only to comment that the site owner is paranoid if he thinks anyone's tried to hack his site...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you think the future of the internet is best decided by a committee of unelected computer-nerds (W3C), rather than the wishes and desires of billions of internet users (market forces)...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you ever commented to a post about a personal tragedy that's struck a family (like a death in the family or homes destroyed by a hurricane) so you could tell the site owner what you think of him for blocking or writing something not flattering of FireFox somewhere else...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you think installing software that blocks all ads on every website is the moral equivalent to going to the bathroom when a commercial comes on TV...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you think merely the presence of Internet Explorer on your computer is a security threat, whether you ever use it or not...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you think the entire internet should be under the strict rule of whatever Tim Berners-Lee decides, because he "invented HTML", but site owner have no right to insist that the pages they create remain as they created them...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you've ever contacted a hosting company, complaining about a site that blocks or contains information not flattering of FireFox, demanding it be removed because it "offends you"...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

If you think sites that block IE are cool, but sites that block FireFox are an outrageous abomination...
...you might be a FF Fanboy.

Hopefully that'll help clear up the problem if you were wondering if you might be one or not. But odds are, if you actually are, you haven't even bothered to read past the first sentence or to before whipping down to the comment box to write some inane, profanity-laced invective.

看來這位站長不大了解現時的瀏覽器功能。

首先是現時不只有Firefox才有廣告過濾功能，Opera, Avant Browser, The World等等的著名的瀏覽器都自帶厲害的廣告過濾功能，甚至微軟出品的IE7，只要裝上IE Pro這個插件也一樣可以過濾廣告，而Firefox也要另外安裝插件才能獲得過濾廣告的功能。而且不只瀏覽器有這種功能，還有其他防火牆軟體和廣告過濾軟體也有相關的，甚至更勝一籌的功能。站長針對Firefox的行為只會表現出他的無知，他辱罵Firefox的用家，稱他們為FF Fanboy，顯出他對Firefox的extension的強大功能顯得無能為力(這時候應該覺得高興嗎？^^)。

網絡上的資源的共享的，每位使用者都有選擇自己想要的資訊的權利，如果有人不想看到廣告，他可以把廣告擋掉，這是理所當然的事。但如果有人剝奪了別人的選擇—權，就會產生了不公平的現象。

現在網絡上廣告隨處可見，有些網站掛上幾個大型的Flash廣告，一些低階電腦可能已經受不了，不得不把網站上的廣告過濾。如果網頁設計者有用心考慮使用者的處境，不放太多廣告，或者不要用太多佔資源的廣告橫額，相信廣告過濾軟體也不會那麼盛行。

Firefox的插件Adblock的作者名叫帕拉特。今年年初，他曾經表示，插件之所以受到歡迎，是因為人們對目前廣告泛濫的網頁設計感到不滿。他說，讓AdBlock受到歡迎的原因和Mozilla無關，而是網站運營方自身行為的一個結果。帕拉特重申，只有一個辦法讓網站廣告免遭過濾，即讓那些網民親自感覺到沒有必要去過濾某個網站的廣告。

最後要說一句，Firefox的簡稱是Fx，不是FF。