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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.'"
Google is very strict about where they allow their ads to be shown. For example, Google will not feed ads to sites that express extreme political views, or deal with taboo topics such as internet gambling.
So, I'm wondering if they approved this project. If they haven't, then Google will be pulling the plug very shortly...
RTFA.
But you're not helping anyone other than the advertisers. The adbar is run in test mode: the developer doesn't make a dime, and google doesn't make a dime.
So, unless you're referring to the moral high road of all advertisers who display web ad content, which I find hard to believe, you're just another schmuck who hasn't read the damn article
Isn't that the same guy who runs Pornzilla?
That and people are stupid enough to actually pay him.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
RTFA...er...page
they don't
There are two ways advertisers can "violate your privacy".
* They can send you unwanted advertisements (spam e-mail, junk faxes, telemarketing, adware). With spam and ads from adware, it is often difficult to tell where the ad came from and how to stop receiving ads from that source.
* They can select which ads to show you based on information you consider private, such as demographic information or the contents of e-mails you receive.
I don't mind the second, as long as I don't see ads for porn while someone is looking over my shoulder. Google was wise to make Gmail select ads based only on the current message.
The shareholder is always right.
Use adblock. For those pesky IPs
It's very simple to use. Use wildcards and regexes to block whole categories not just individual ads.
If you upgrade from Firefox 0.9.x to a branch nightly build (or wait for Firefox 1.0 Preview Release), middle-clicking and control-clicking the ads will do the right thing.
The shareholder is always right.
My initial plan was to use the MPL. mozilla.org provides a combined MPL/GPL/LGPL boilerplate block, so it's just as easy to tri-license the code as it is to MPL it.
The shareholder is always right.
They're "test ads" in that they don't generate revenue, but they're still loaded from pageads2.googlesyndication.com.
The shareholder is always right.
Unregistered Operas have an ad box. I'm using one now. As I said before this doesn't bug me except from chomping some screen space.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
There is still no way to have a vertical tab bar, quickly toggle on/off all formatting, or quickly cycle between All Images/No Images/Loaded Images.
Also, Opera still has a magical interface. If I misclose a window, I can hit Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Alt+Z and it is magically restored. I don't need to install extensions to get tabs to behave sensically.
And so on.
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
who modded this as funny? he did buy the uid on ebay A very little amount of research will also reveal the uid of the user who bought it.