begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:25:04PM -0700: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:42:32PM -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > Web pages have ads? I've been blocking them all for years. > > > > So put me into the fully agree column. > > You can block ads? How does your browser know what HTML elements are ads? > linuxtoday.org is especially egregious. Vising that is like doing a > face plant into a pile of steeming commercials. If you can remove all > that then I'm impressed.
Simple approach: See an ad, look up where it came from. Add that IP to your firewall with a DENY rule. Adblock and other tools are a more flexible and less harsh approach. The problem with ads is that they're revenue for the hosting site. I don't have a problem with someone trying to make a buck here or there; the problem I want to avoid is the tail wagging the dog. When the medium isn't about providing content to the user, but rather bringing user's eyeballs to the advertiser, everyone suffers. As I understand it, there are really only three profitable ways to make money on the 'Net: subscription (user pays for access), merchandising (user purchases items), and advertising (advertisers pay for access to users). -- Speaking of which, I should buy something online from someone this month. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
