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OT: Adblock Plus plugin for Firefox
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HoosierLars Feb 27 2010, 01:25 PM Post #1
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Hey Guys, I know Brian has been plugging this for some time, and I want say it works as advertised. My main home system crashed a few months ago, and now I'm surfing on a 866MHz Pentium system. The adblocker improves this site's performance dramatically for me because you're not always waiting for the adds to download.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
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Is there one for Chrome?
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Feb 27 2010, 01:33 PM
Is there one for Chrome?
I don't know. If there was one, Google would probably block it. :-)
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dreachon Feb 27 2010, 01:45 PM Post #4
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Think I got it. So now what does this thing do?

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom
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Old_School Feb 27 2010, 03:06 PM Post #5
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AdBlock Plus is the shit. It gets the Old_School seal of approval.
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glad you finally came to your senses, lars. ;) It's surprising how few people actually use this feature and how many are continuing to put their entire computer at risk by using IE.

dreachon, that looks like the chrome ABP (i didn't even know they had one). First you have to subscribe to an ads-list (this is free). It basically is a list of known advertising urls that it'll block. after that, you don't need to do anything, it'll just block all the ads.

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glad you finally came to your senses, lars. ;) It's surprising how few people actually use this feature and how many are continuing to put their entire computer at risk by using IE.
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Somebody has to pay for all of our free surfing, so I didn't mind throwing the advertisers a few bones. On a fast system, it's not really a problem, but if you have an old system and/or a slow connection, serving adds is a performance killer.
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glad you finally came to your senses, lars. ;) It's surprising how few people actually use this feature and how many are continuing to put their entire computer at risk by using IE.

dreachon, that looks like the chrome ABP (i didn't even know they had one). First you have to subscribe to an ads-list (this is free). It basically is a list of known advertising urls that it'll block. after that, you don't need to do anything, it'll just block all the ads.

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Hmmm. I DLed it and now there are no ads on this page. Don't think I signed up for a list or anything. Are you sure?
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glad you finally came to your senses, lars. ;) It's surprising how few people actually use this feature and how many are continuing to put their entire computer at risk by using IE.

dreachon, that looks like the chrome ABP (i didn't even know they had one). First you have to subscribe to an ads-list (this is free). It basically is a list of known advertising urls that it'll block. after that, you don't need to do anything, it'll just block all the ads.

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Hmmm. I DLed it and now there are no ads on this page. Don't think I signed up for a list or anything. Are you sure?
chromeabp automatically subscribes you to the free list i think...

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glad you finally came to your senses, lars. ;) It's surprising how few people actually use this feature and how many are continuing to put their entire computer at risk by using IE.
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Somebody has to pay for all of our free surfing, so I didn't mind throwing the advertisers a few bones. On a fast system, it's not really a problem, but if you have an old system and/or a slow connection, serving adds is a performance killer.
advertisers still get "hits" on their ads when they're blocked.

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