People have the right to advertise in order to make money for the content they provide. If that means I put up with a couple of ads, that's fine. I am not going to use an ad-blocker to destroy what some people use to actually make a profit on their free content
J - 12 years ago
I use a custom hosts file http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
this blocks a LOT of nasties at network level which conveniently disables stupid ads in things like msn as well as all browsers. I don't mind ads, I do mind the bandwidth they take up and the amount of crapware that phones home. Its scary how many sites have gaping holes in their content without adverts, youtube being a particular culprit.
I'd recommend this for anybody with a low bandwidth connection, people likely to accumulate spyware (ie: parents) and anybody who values privacy. Its no silver bullet but it goes a long way
Always in my primary browsing, never in my testing. Why not let it through by default? Because, even though well-meant advertising is fine by me (word-of-mouth can only go so far, in a 6 billion people world), it's not working right, yet. Summarizes in : Kind of don't want to buy an Asian bride still, same as 10 years ago, but thanks for asking, Internet.
Of course, yes! If not I'll become a zombie... or simply mad!
Really, the web is so slow when ad-block is not activated...
Bruce - 12 years ago
Actually, although I selected 'always', some sites get allowed through, like smashing. I also do not use any blocker on my iPad or iPhone, which I use to browse heavily.
Charles - 12 years ago
I always use it in my primary browser, Chrome. But never in Firefox, which I run alongside it - which I mainly only use for Firebug.
People have the right to advertise in order to make money for the content they provide. If that means I put up with a couple of ads, that's fine. I am not going to use an ad-blocker to destroy what some people use to actually make a profit on their free content
I use a custom hosts file http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
this blocks a LOT of nasties at network level which conveniently disables stupid ads in things like msn as well as all browsers. I don't mind ads, I do mind the bandwidth they take up and the amount of crapware that phones home. Its scary how many sites have gaping holes in their content without adverts, youtube being a particular culprit.
I'd recommend this for anybody with a low bandwidth connection, people likely to accumulate spyware (ie: parents) and anybody who values privacy. Its no silver bullet but it goes a long way
Always, with only a couple of sites excluded. I turn it off only when I test the websites I create.
Always in my primary browsing, never in my testing. Why not let it through by default? Because, even though well-meant advertising is fine by me (word-of-mouth can only go so far, in a 6 billion people world), it's not working right, yet. Summarizes in : Kind of don't want to buy an Asian bride still, same as 10 years ago, but thanks for asking, Internet.
Of course, yes! If not I'll become a zombie... or simply mad!
Really, the web is so slow when ad-block is not activated...
Actually, although I selected 'always', some sites get allowed through, like smashing. I also do not use any blocker on my iPad or iPhone, which I use to browse heavily.
I always use it in my primary browser, Chrome. But never in Firefox, which I run alongside it - which I mainly only use for Firebug.