I get a blank page here because I got Adblock plus installed on my Firefox. However I read the content in the Page Source. It goes like
I don't agree with anything it says, ....well screw it!!

They're jealous.

I was under the impression Firefox only blocks the obtrusive popups that open without user interaction...I've never had regular advertisements blocked. I'm sure M$ is going to help support a legal battle against Mozilla over this issue, should be interesting to see how it goes. Guess its time for an addon that makes Firefox appear to be IE to web servers.

Just for grins, have you tried changing your user agent settings and seeing if the site will work that way? Personally, I probably would just avoid the site as well, but I've had some success with User Agent Switcher for those sites that aren't specifically BLOCKING Firefox, but are designed to work "only with IE"...

The extension AdBlockPlus blocks "inline" ads. Since there is no way to detect whether a user has this extension installed they have decide to ban all firefox users.

Thing is, a lot of these "unobtrusive" adverts are distracting, annoying and waste screen real-estate and bandwidth, especially the flash ones.

I cannot possibly comprehend the kind of logic that goes into this sort of message. It would be analogous to forbidding people who have radio receivers that can change reception frequency (yeah, that's all of them) from listening to your radio station because they might switch away during a commercial break.

Following their pin-headed logic, they should also block IE because Windows users could run Norton Internet Security, which has a popup and ad blocker in it. Damn those IE users for ripping the bread from my children's mouths!

Well perhaps if they could find ways of making money that didn't annoy me beyond belief and eat my bandwidth...

I don't agree with anything either except for:

It certainly is their right to block whomever they want, just as it is your (global 'your' here) right to ignore their site and not buy any products or services from them.

There is something a bit flaky about your accusation. When I go there, the page is not blank, it simply states the information, you supposedly pulled from the page source. It is not a redirection by some one concerned about you not seeing their ads.

I would be a lot more annoyed if I actually encountered a site that was redirecting me there. As far as I can tell, no one actually uses this page. Someone may well be trying to sell this service, but I don't believe it is currently an issue.

No, of course not. It isn't a re-direction but just somebody trying to prove something to someone. The scenario would be worrisome if the more reputable ones start doing such things because of the things mentioned there.

Edit: And yes, if I disable Adblock plus, I can view the contents as well but the page is a blank white when enabled.

And he has also given the code to block Firefox and re-direct it to the same, both in php and javascript.

http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/blockcode.html

A little far fetched...

It is a redirect, try www.jacklewis.net with FF and you'll be redirected to whyfirefoxisblocked.

Yeah. Well I tried jacklewis.net in Konqueror, which should have worked, and it redirected me to whyfirefoxisblocked as well. Obviously, that is a hard redirect ... There is, evidently, no real jacklewis.net page, let alone one that wants you to see their ads.

Edit: This story has been exploding in the last few days, and taking on the aura of an urban legend. I just googled around a little bit to see if anyone else was of the opinion that it was a baseless bit of foolishness. Google rather quickly turns up this piece of reason amongst all the hysteria.

...so you tested it with Konqueror and assumed its a lie? I just visited jacklewis.net in IE and it is very real.

edit: www.whatsmyinfo.com shows "Mozilla" in the browser info for Konqueror, could explain why its blocked as well

edit: Took another look at this page and found they are redirecting with the following: wow, thats one way to do it, use IE's poor JavaScript implementation as a way to know if people are using a better browser...

So this idiot isn't even testing to see if your browser is Firefox. He's only testing to see if it's IE. Anything else gets redirected. Not only is he misguided and greedy, but he's a pretty piss poor excuse for a web developer too.