[aluhut]

> We fear that in the near future many websites will start to disappear just because their maintenance will no longer be profitable, and no one wants to give away money from their own pockets in order to sustain their website.

I hear that since Webwasher. And today, with better AdBlocking tools, additional costs for hosts, the Internet is still there.

From time to time even I get weak and think about the way I block ads. Then I just launch my IE at work and there is no doubt about it: this is not the Internet I want to see.

[a3n]

At work I only use IE for internal sites and apps. Everything external I use Firefox with uBO, Disconnect and Ghostery.

I don't want to be responsible for bringing something heinous into my employer's network.

I don't know why adblockers aren't mandatory inside corporations.

[aluhut]

I would love to understand that too. Especially since it seems to be a kind of UK problem. Colleagues in the US do have FF on their computers.

I'm not even allowed to run FF, Chrome, etc. We bypass this by using Waterfox because it seems to be the .exe Files that are blocked.

It's a horrible risk since people are doing research on their IE going down to private peoples pages and blogs (not all of them though since wordpress-hosted blogs are blocked...).