Not Enough Ads? Install Adbar.

An anonymous reader writes "Jesse Ruderman brings the worst feature of Opera, Advertisements, to Firefox with his extension Adbar. According to the page, 'adbar displays Google ads related to pages you view. Because the ads are relevant, they are occasionally useful. When adbar isn't displaying ads from Google, it displays Firefox-related things such as silly Firefox slogans, ads for other Mozilla software, and requests for donations to the Mozilla Foundation.'"

Comments

Yeah, ok.

[Valar]

And when I'm done, I need to start installing my virus collection.

Re:Yeah, ok.

[Anonymous Coward]

And when I'm done, I need to start installing my virus collection.

This is awesome! I just found out that I can pay money to have my own conversations tapped, and now I just found out that I can install a plugin for my browser that gives me more ads! If they ever come up with a device for my computer that shoves a hot poker in my ass every so often, I'll be in heaven!

IT'S A TRAP!

[Rylfaeth]

or so shouts Admiral Adbar.
-Rylfaeth

is there a version for

[theguywhosaid]

Internet Explorer?

Re:is there a version for

[mabinogi]

hundreds of them, just use IE for a few hours and one is bound to install itself.

You just saved me from installing IE!!!

[cytoman]

Thanks, dude!!!! I was going Cold Turkey without the ads/popups after switching to Firefox... I needed to see those ads so bad that I was about to uninstall Firefox and switch to Windows so that I could use IE!!!!!!

Yay Ads! I was feeling guilty about reading pages without watching ads... I was feeling guilty because seeing content without Ads is like stealing from the content makers. You saved my soul.

Yep it's a joke

[beakerMeep]

From the site: "Can I register and get rid of the ads? Of course! Paypal $19 (51% cheaper than Opera!) to me or the Mozilla Foundation, then use Firefox's Extension Manager to uninstall adbar." What a waste of a parannoid attack I had there. Thanks slashdot.

Re:Google is a special case

[Anonymous Coward]

Sucker.

Don't cross the streams!

[deep square leg]

Don't install it next to Adblock! The meeting of these two opposing super-extensions will create an implosion that shall engulf the entire universe.

Re:Registering to get rid of ads?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why pay to remove something you can simply choose to not install in the first place?

Here on Earth, we call this a "joke".

Targeted Ads, eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

So based on the assumptions about slashdot users, you will get even MORE ads about "enlarging your member" based on surfing habits.

I just invented something too

[oasis3582]

I just invented a reverse TiVo. It extracts all the commercials from a given time slot for viewing at a later date! One at a time folks!

Re:Well

[soimless]

My question is if i can Adblock my Adbar?

Re:Well

[BrainInAJar]

" *woah* did you just insult a 2-digit UID? :-P"

He bought it (the UID) on ebay, so it's okay

Re:Resolution to burn

[Donny Smith]

> Sorry, I prefer to keep my [very limited] desktop space.

Haven't you seen that ad for large LCD monitors?

My DVD Player

[Frankie70]

I have hacked my DVD Player to play 5 minutes of advertisements after every 10 minutes of the movie. And my TIVO plays stored ads even when I watch the premium ad free channels.

Re:Well

[bhima]

Who buys trade magazines? You just fill out the zillion question form and they appear at your office for the rest of your life.

Re:Can I hack it to pay myself?

[leathered]

" If you run Google ads, Google pays you."

..in Soviet Russia?