Pingdom, free for a year

piersk

If anyone's interested, Pingdom are offering a year's free monitoring for the next 24 hrs... nope, 22hrs 55 mins at time of posting.

The catch? You've got to sign up with firefox.

etully

The catch? You've got to sign up with firefox.

This must be in response to those sites who are blocking access to Firefox because Firefox users tend to filter out ads which is something that those sites say is stealing.

I love that Pingdom took the opposite position. Probably says a lot about them.

piersk

I think it was because they'd provided a service to Mozilla for a number of years. But yes, it's awesome.

bpat1434

Crap... a day too late....

I could have used that too....

Like my grandfather always said: "If it's free, it's for me"

schwim

Montastic is free all the time, regardless of what browser you use.

Blocking FF browsers? I've not seen that yet, and can only say that you'd have to be a special breed of stupid to block than many users (most of which probably don't block anything) from visiting your site.

thanks,
json

etully

Blocking FF browsers? I've not seen that yet

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/17/1359206
http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/

bpat1434

Heh... I use ABP.... heck, I use it here. I hate the ads on websites. Very intrusive. But I contribute to 90% of the sites that ads are on. So if they want to block a massive contributer, then they can do so, but it's on them 😉

It's not breaking the law, not matter how you look at it. Take the news paper. Notice how many ads are in there? And how many people pay attention to them? Like 10%? Or how about TV? Are they going to block DVR or fast forwarding through commercials because then they're getting "free" cable? I remember when cable meant "no ads", and that's what you paid for.

Stupid stupid people are trying to fight this, and even stupider people are following along. Next thing you know, as you're playing a video-game or watching an HBO movie, an ad will pop up for 2 to 3 minutes saying "Hey, buy my product"!!

What really brought all this on were those javascript and CSS hack ads that floated over everything so that you couldn't read the page until you acknowledged the Ad. Inline ads (like here) are not so bad; except that typically they slow down my load times. But I mean come on, the ad makers brought this on themselves...

schwim

oh, I didn't say I didn't block them 😉. Just that I hadn't seen a site refuse firefox yet.

I use ABP with the element block addon as well as the filter updater.

As for blocking firefox, I also have UserAgent switcher installed in case I can't get to a search result unless I'm googlebot. If I can be Googlebot, I guess I can be IE 😃

And finally, can you imagine the kind of moron you have to be to do something like this? I mean I totally understand the whyfirefoxisblocked.com site, as you can tell by the text that it's someone that's a little angry, and they're like a 12 year old, lashing out. But to point someone to that site? I wouldn't point anyone there for fear that they would think that I knew this guy 😃

If you do end up at a site that does this, it's my guess that it's just a farm for ads, anyway.

thanks,
json

schwim

Found this in the /. comments, and yep, it's a single angry guy 😃

thanks,
json