yeah, i really like more blocking stuff myself, with my own regexes, so i have a lot more control than these lists. But of course someone could provide such lists, and this would be easy to subscribe for the users. Then statistics for the list-downloads would show, which ads are the most hated.
so you will get influenced by the ads, ranking them nearly as relevant as the search results. now think a second time. someone who affords to buy an advertisment, spends money. who spends money, wants to get money. When you click, they hope to make money from your visit. So in the end you're paying for the ad, and they have a big interest in pushing you to buy something at their site or other costy actions. Which would not have happend with the first relevant search result instead of the ad.
it may be unusable with some of the default subscriptions. but when i block ads myself, i know how to use a regex, which only blocks what i want to block. abp is very good there, supporting xpath as well.
because a blacklist is always up2date and complete. of course. and some tracking company cannot just use dsl like a normal customer. and of course they will always use ips with their company name in the whois.
noscript... mh, wasn't this the plugin, which adds the author's homepage to the adblock whitelist?
okay, they are not doing it anymore, but at this time i had the impression the noscript guys want to make money and the adblock people are the good guys. now the adblock author does strange things, too.
you see, the good thing is not the NAT, but the firewall dropping packets from outside, again. As always, the people say the security comes from NAT, and really mean the requirement of having a firewall which drops packets coming in, because there is no mapping to which internal ip they should be routed.
at least you can configure firefox 8 to behave like 3.6 and look like it. disable tabs on top, install rssicon-in-urlbar, status-4-evar, disable the firefox-button and you're almost done.
you cannot win this war. Its like the virus scanners. no virus scanner really knows the most recent virus. so no website will be able to provide ads in a way that cannot be blocked. with adblock you can block articles marked as sponsored on slashdot, if you want to.
and forcing ads like the advertisers want them (colorful and blinking) to the users against adblockers needs javascript, which can easily be blocked with noscript (which should be a builtin for firefox).
of course, the site can choose to provide the content only via javascript. but i would bet then we get plugins to selectivly run parts of the javascript and other parts not.
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yeah, i really like more blocking stuff myself, with my own regexes, so i have a lot more control than these lists. But of course someone could provide such lists, and this would be easy to subscribe for the users. Then statistics for the list-downloads would show, which ads are the most hated.
> it's unethical to use a service without paying
why?
its unethical, if you use a service, which requires payment without paying, but there are a lot of free services.
so you will get influenced by the ads, ranking them nearly as relevant as the search results. now think a second time. someone who affords to buy an advertisment, spends money. who spends money, wants to get money. When you click, they hope to make money from your visit. So in the end you're paying for the ad, and they have a big interest in pushing you to buy something at their site or other costy actions. Which would not have happend with the first relevant search result instead of the ad.
you see, you can't be careful enough. most sites do not review their ads, so i will block them.
it may be unusable with some of the default subscriptions. but when i block ads myself, i know how to use a regex, which only blocks what i want to block. abp is very good there, supporting xpath as well.
there is only a small list of sites, which really need scripts. they are on the permanent white-list, the rest works just fine without scripts.
come from the same server as the website. everything else deserves to be blocked.
and even this will not work out. when more people start doing this, just clicking to help the webmaster, then the ad-prices will drop.
because a blacklist is always up2date and complete. of course. and some tracking company cannot just use dsl like a normal customer. and of course they will always use ips with their company name in the whois.
friend of foe is missing.
just create a blocklist for each, and offer the adblock users to subscribe to your lists. then they can choose.
noscript ... mh, wasn't this the plugin, which adds the author's homepage to the adblock whitelist?
okay, they are not doing it anymore, but at this time i had the impression the noscript guys want to make money and the adblock people are the good guys. now the adblock author does strange things, too.
not everyone has a network as large as the network of google.
you see, the good thing is not the NAT, but the firewall dropping packets from outside, again. As always, the people say the security comes from NAT, and really mean the requirement of having a firewall which drops packets coming in, because there is no mapping to which internal ip they should be routed.
The String-Key ;). (A pun which does not work for non-german persons.)
and each additional command you learn will double your productivity again.
LXDE is for people, who are missing Win95.
at least you can configure firefox 8 to behave like 3.6 and look like it. disable tabs on top, install rssicon-in-urlbar, status-4-evar, disable the firefox-button and you're almost done.
> Opera has a market share of 30 000 person worldwide.
troll.
more like 30 million.
seriously, you do not want to use a programming language without object orientation for GUI programming.
int button = gtk_make_some_button_method();
do_something_with_the_Button(button, parameter, parameter);
do_something_else_with_the_Button(button, parameter, parameter);
instead of button->do_something(...);
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i won't buy it anyway.
every software comes with google chrome in the installer selected for being installed.
oh, poor you. you provide content, and the users get the content ... and poor you cannot get the users to click the useless ads.
you cannot win this war. Its like the virus scanners. no virus scanner really knows the most recent virus. so no website will be able to provide ads in a way that cannot be blocked.
with adblock you can block articles marked as sponsored on slashdot, if you want to.
and forcing ads like the advertisers want them (colorful and blinking) to the users against adblockers needs javascript, which can easily be blocked with noscript (which should be a builtin for firefox).
of course, the site can choose to provide the content only via javascript. but i would bet then we get plugins to selectivly run parts of the javascript and other parts not.
will believe the universe only exists since 1.1.1970.