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Oxwivi

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Adblock Plus
« on: December 09, 2009, 12:41:01 PM »
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Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic

Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu — the banner won’t be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or choose a filter subscription, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.


I like Adblock Plus - it saves my time when loading webpages blocking all kind of ads.
  • Install Mozilla Firefox.
  • Go to Tools -> Add-ons.
  • Go to this website & install the latest release.
  • Go to this website & find EasyList & Easy Privacy written in a table; there will be Add to ABP link on the right - click on both of the links & press OK when a dialog box appears.
« Last Edit: December 09, 2009, 12:50:01 PM by Oxwil »

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Re: Adblock Plus
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2009, 09:39:38 AM »
People give a lot of energy in creating websites, and then maintaining them only to earn money from the advertisements they show, so its not ethical for you to use this ad blocker in order to not see the ads that repay them for their hard work.

Thats me, i dont know about you :D

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Re: Adblock Plus
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2009, 02:05:34 PM »
It isn't always the case. The website we usually visit like Google or Y!, ads are just supplementary. And wou;dn't you call it unethical to gain money by annoying people?

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Re: Adblock Plus
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2009, 05:08:27 AM »
uh, now i get you, if you say that earning money from ads like pop-ups, and pop-unders or whole page ads, those are annoying, and you can even go to the extent where you can say its unethical.

but ads as a whole isnt bad, the inline ads, banners etc... are a must for the sites, and google, Y! and other sites try to fit it all with the contents as much as they can - thats why you dont see it, but they do it because they can employ special people to do that, who are good at these things. However the small sites may not be able to do so, but they will still need to earn money, so what they do is try to make their ads stand out, and not fitted with the content, thats how they tend to earn money.

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Re: Adblock Plus
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2009, 04:47:10 PM »
Save it for the debate thread.