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My point is that users will be affected by the broadness of the rules in ways that you don't currently intend. Just narrow them down so that "the website works", but doesn't affect unrelated sites...

We can debate the anti-adblock philosophy, but my original point stands - the rules that were placed have effects beyond what was directly intended (stopping messaging on huffingtonpost) as well as acceptable collateral damage (other sites that do messaging). For example, these rules : /sourcepoint....

geirsp Why put the onus on the list authors when your technology is being used and all they are doing is protecting users from nonconforming sites which are in clear violation of the ruleset set by the larger community. If you want to protect your customers who are not part of the anti adblock camp...

So you're basically saying its another Anti-adblock. And it shouldn't be treated any differently? As part of your communication, maybe you should ease off the restrictions and stop treating Adblock users differently. This might help: https://easylist.to/2013/05/10/anti-adblock-guide-for-site-admins...

Hi, I'm the CTO of Sourcepoint, a company that helps publishers with monetization and communication (and as part of that, help them deal with their adblocker problems). These rules will affect many sites in many countries in an adverse way, including sites that don't use the tech in a way specific t...