Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Aug 2010 14:02 UTC
We're still in the slow news period, so let's talk about something we discussed before: blocking advertisements on websites. Up until, well, today, I didn't block ads - not because of some ethical objection or whatever, but simply because I couldn't be bothered to setup AdBlock. Today, after taking a closer look at some of the websites I frequent, I decided to take the plunge and install AdBlock on all my machines. The following set of screenshots should pretty much explain why.
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Member since:2009-10-04
Wrong. AdBlock from Chrome doesn't download them any more.
Do you know of any extension that does download them? Because I have plenty of bandwidth, and I wouldn't feel so bad about blocking ads on OSNews if I knew that the advertisers had no way of knowing (since I never click on ads anyway).
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2005-06-29
I believe that is exactly how AdBlock for Chrome works. Chrome has no mechanism for extensions to prevent things from downloading, so it just hides the ads. "
Wrong. AdBlock from Chrome doesn't download them any more.