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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Dec 2014
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Best Ad Blocker
On 12/12/14 12:22 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/12/2014 12:07 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:38:40 -0500, Toad Gigger
wrote:
I've read lots of reviews of various ad blockers, many of which are
horrible.
Anyone using one that does the job well? And on which browser is it
being used?
I have some kind of plug in for firefox that blocks most of them but I
still end up turning it off because a couple of government web sites I
use a lot, use popups.
They are unusable with the blocker on.
It is just lazy programming. They probably hired a guy who was in the
advertising business and that was the only way he knew to link a page.
Ad-Block Plus is pretty good, I think. It's not perfect but you don't
realize how well it works until you disable it for some reason. I had
forgotten how cluttered the web has become with ads.
The only issue is on some types of streaming downloads, like videos and
some news slide shows that Yahoo does. Sometimes an ad is embedded as
an integral part of a streaming download rather than a stand-alone file.
In that case Ad-Block recognizes the start of the download as being an
advertisement and blocks the whole thing. Fortunately this doesn't
happen on most.
For example, without Ad-Block many of YouTube videos start with an ad.
I never see them. It goes directly to the video you are expecting to see.
But, but, but...it's soooo difficult. 
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Lets elect a gay black woman with a latino lover president,
if only for the possibility of provoking a right-wing mass suicide.
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