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Contents 1 Active browsing 2 Forrester 3 Grease Monkey International, Inc 4 Ethical issues? 5 Technical, operational, and ethical issues arising from user scripting 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Jfader greasemonkey bookburro.png

[edit] Active browsing

What's "Active Browsing"? I'm heavily involved with the Greasemonkey community and I've never heard of it.

The term, at least in this meaning, dates from 2001 - http://platypus.mozdev.org/ -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 15:58, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Begging and pandering are also not business models. Relying on ad impressions is a defective business model. If one has desirable content explicitly charge for viewing -- whatever the market will support. Kubatonmax, a Protest Warrior 01:40, 2006 Jan 30 (PST)

[edit] Forrester

What use is the Forrester link? It doesn't contain any more information. Markus Schmaus 02:33, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

It a source for the preceeding paragraph. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 02:54, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grease Monkey International, Inc

I was just wondering why there was no article to this company.
Just thought it might help Wikipedia to include an article on that company.
Does anyone know why it isn't on here? Thanks!

-- MaraNeo127^talk 17:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Wouldn't meet WP:NOTE criteria. DFH 12:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ethical issues?

Which if any of the points in section 3 are ethical issues? (and why?) DFH 14:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, the first one--is it ethical to disrupt revenue due to ads? Ads keep many things running.

Ads don't have my unlimited permission to be displayed on my computer. It would only be unethical for me to disrupt ad revenue generated by what would otherwise be displayed on someone else's computer. Please sign your edits in future. DFH 12:12, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I really fail to see why any of the items in the "issues" section should be there at all. The first example of an issue is roughly equivalent to changing the channel when a television commercial comes on, which is hardly unethical. Advertisers have no right to the attention of the viewer, and the program does not change the content at the source. If the real issue is that it can game AdSense, then we should put that. As for the second example, that any public website like del.icio.us would be upset over increased traffic would fly in the face of the fact they spend so much time trying to spread word about their service and increase viewers. On the third example, if any web programmer cannot figure out how to turn off greasemonkey in order to test a web page, he should find a new job. That said, if the real issue is the greasemonkey creates bugs when viewing web pages, then we should say that.Bantab 15:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Technical, operational, and ethical issues arising from user scripting

This is basically just a "Criticism" section, where people lump laundry lists of criticisms that are not related to each other in any way. Can we integrate the list more properly into the article itself? — Omegatron 02:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Jfader greasemonkey bookburro.png

Image:Jfader greasemonkey bookburro.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)