The Internet without Adblock Plus

[The_Pirate_King]

Oh my god... my eyes... it buuurns!

[earthpigg]

The Internet without Adblock Plus
Oh my god... my eyes... it buuurns!

Oh my god... my eyes... it buuurns!

there is an internet without adblock plus?

wow. and here i was this whole time, thinking adblock plus was the internet.

[Mustard]

I'd agree, its a shock to the eyes. So many flashing animations, popups and screen hoggers. :)

[collinp]

A scary, scary place the Internet would be without the magical presence of AdBlock Plus.

[The_Pirate_King]

Seriously, it's like... every time I do a new install or whatever, I say "Are there really THIS MANY ads?"
I don't ever remember there being that many before I started using FF and ABP. A ton, yes, but I don't remember there being... more ads than there is content... which is the way it seems to be now.

[chucky chuckaluck]

gotta have flashblock, as well (let's face it, who wants to see flash by accident?).

[handy]

IPCop with the Copfilter add-on runs Privoxy, with brilliant scripts, to the point that I don't need Adblock Plus anymore.

Thankfully Privoxy running on the IPCop headless box, doesn't slow down our internet I/O like it does when you run it from the machine you are using.

[Mmmbopdowedop]

I don't use it and i've no problem with ads, at all.

I think many of you are over-reacting, the add-on isn't godly. There's rarely any ads on the sites I browse and when there is, they're not obstructive and don't bother me at all.

People need to make money somehow.

[HappinessNow]

gotta have flashblock, as well (let's face it, who wants to see flash by accident?).agreed the "f" button rules!

[Skripka]

IPCop with the Copfilter add-on runs Privoxy, with brilliant scripts, to the point that I don't need Adblock Plus anymore.

Thankfully Privoxy running on the IPCop headless box, doesn't slow down our internet I/O like it does when you run it from the machine you are using.

Hmm. Don't notice any slowdown on my machines. Including my 1.6gHz Atom netbook on Windows, and m y quad-tower.

[chucky chuckaluck]

I don't use it and i've no problem with ads, at all.

I think many of you are over-reacting, the add-on isn't godly. There's rarely any ads on the sites I browse and when there is, they're not obstructive and don't bother me at all.

People need to make money somehow.

they could always try 'working'.

[t0p]

I use Flashblock. But I've never tried Adblock/Adblock Plus. What do the Adblocks do extra to Flashblock?

[ikt]

they could always try 'working'.

what happens when a website requires a lot of maintenance?

I'm in the same bucket, I don't use adblock and most sites I visit are fine.

[lovinglinux]

I use Flashblock. But I've never tried Adblock/Adblock Plus. What do the Adblocks do extra to Flashblock?

It blocks all sorts of ads. Not all ads are made of flash.

BTW, is a shock to browse the web without AdBlock Plus. I have been using it for years and whenever I use a computer without it, it's really scary.

[Barriehie]

ABP with a good squid blacklist...!

Barrie

[chickengirl]

what happens when a website requires a lot of maintenance?

I'm in the same bucket, I don't use adblock and most sites I visit are fine.

Perhaps they could try something that isn't obnoxious, and isn't a notorious vector for viruses and spyware.

P.S. I'm willing to bet that the reason most of the sites you visit don't have obnoxious ads is that you've stopped visiting the ones that do.

[Thelasko]

Yeah, I've been using the Chromium daily builds. While Adblock Plus is available for Chromium, it's just not as good.

It's quite shocking.

[CJ Master]

Yeah, I've been using the Chromium daily builds. While Adblock Plus is available for Chromium, it's just not as good.

It's quite shocking.

Considering that it uses the same blacklist, I can't see how it wouldn't be as good.

[Techsnap]

Considering I've never ever used adblock or any software of the sort I have no idea what you're talking about, there's definitely no huge ads on the sites I visit.

Also people should show some consideration for ads which are paying for running the site, one of my websites displays ads to cover the costs of running it.

[Thelasko]

Considering that it uses the same blacklist, I can't see how it wouldn't be as good.

It uses the same blocklist, but doesn't have the same capabilities. Adblock Plus for Firefox can block elements and sources, where Chromium can only block elements.

[Keyper7]

There's rarely any ads on the sites I browse and when there is, they're not obstructive and don't bother me at all.

I agree.

By the way, I don't know if this is related, but what is this obscure "porn" thing that I've never seen but keep hearing about?

Is it somehow popular, at least in certain niches? Like, if I type this word on Google, will any results be presented?

[Alex Libman]

I've been in the habit of using AdBlock Plus and similar software since the dawn of the Internets (in the olden days we had to use proxies - write your own Flintstones joke here), so browsing the Web without it is always a shock. "They normally have ads on this site?!" Changes your perspective quite a bit...

[blur xc]

Considering I've never ever used adblock or any software of the sort I have no idea what you're talking about, there's definitely no huge ads on the sites I visit.

You don't see them because you are so used to them. Once you come over to our side and visit for a while, you will be in visual shock if you ever tried to go back.

The internets w/o adblock is like watching live tv w/o dvr powers to skip the commercials. I rarely watch anything on tv that's not been dvr'd.

BM

[Techsnap]

Once you come over to our side and visit for a while, you will be in visual shock if you ever tried to go back.

No, I don't mind ads if they're not in the way. If they're paying for the site it's absolutely fine.

[blur xc]

No, I don't mind ads if they're not in the way. If they're paying for the site it's absolutely fine.

It's not just because they are in the way - a lot of times they make the page load slowly. I've experienced that a lot.

Also, add content is a big issue for me. Some of it is what my wife and I would consider offensive, especially with our young children in the room or when they are using the computer. Not that pirate bay is a kid friendly site, but most their add banners were for flat out porn sites. Mini nova has a bunch of them as well. Those are extreme examples, I don't know if it's the same now, it's been a long time since I've been to either site.

Teagames.com is a game site we visit regularly, and they would have banners from time to time that were just wrong, imo. My kids don't need to accidentally click on an adult friend finder banner while playing online games.

BM

[lovinglinux]

It's not just because they are in the way - a lot of times they make the page load slowly. I've experienced that a lot.

Also, add content is a big issue for me. Some of it is what my wife and I would consider offensive, especially with our young children in the room or when they are using the computer. Not that pirate bay is a kid friendly site, but most their add banners were for flat out porn sites. Mini nova has a bunch of them as well. Those are extreme examples, I don't know if it's the same now, it's been a long time since I've been to either site.

Teagames.com is a game site we visit regularly, and they would have banners from time to time that were just wrong, imo. My kids don't need to accidentally click on an adult friend finder banner while playing online games.

BM

I agree. Not to mention ads with malicious scripts.

[Chronon]

No, I don't mind ads if they're not in the way. If they're paying for the site it's absolutely fine.

If it's a site that I frequent (and support) then I consider it. I have white-listed Jamendo, for instance.

[handy]

Hmm. Don't notice any slowdown on my machines. Including my 1.6gHz Atom netbook on Windows, and m y quad-tower.

Perhaps Privoxy developed their way beyond the slow down?

Privoxy was well known for costing time, here & there in the past. I've not used it on a workstation for well over a year though.

[SuperSonic4]

gotta have flashblock, as well (let's face it, who wants to see flash by accident?).

+1 to stopping any prank youtube videos dead in their tracks.

AdBlock+Flashblock make the internet a more bandwidth friendly place.

[handy]

It's not just because they are in the way - a lot of times they make the page load slowly. I've experienced that a lot.

Also, add content is a big issue for me. Some of it is what my wife and I would consider offensive, especially with our young children in the room or when they are using the computer. Not that pirate bay is a kid friendly site, but most their add banners were for flat out porn sites. Mini nova has a bunch of them as well. Those are extreme examples, I don't know if it's the same now, it's been a long time since I've been to either site.

Teagames.com is a game site we visit regularly, and they would have banners from time to time that were just wrong, imo. My kids don't need to accidentally click on an adult friend finder banner while playing online games.

BM

I agree also.

There are sites that I would not return to before I could block their tasteless & obnoxious ads.

[jbrown96]

I use ABP, but there are certain sites where I disable it. A lot of places make their money from advertising; there's nothing wrong with that.

The thing that really ticks me off is flash. It's so crappy on Linux that just ads on a site make it unusable. I really like last.fm, and I know they have to pay a lot of money to license and transfer (network costs) those songs, so I can listen to them. The problem is that my whole computer slows to a crawl with it.
I'm really stuck in a tough position; maybe you wouldn't call it stealing to block ads, but you are certainly depriving that site of revenue. I used to not care about that, but I'm trying to play by the rules now. I imagine that I'm going to buy a pro account, so I can stream last.fm into Amarok; it's only $3/month.

[ikt]

Perhaps they could try something that isn't obnoxious, and isn't a notorious vector for viruses and spyware.

Suggestions?