How To Get Rid Of Those Annoying Ad Banners?

[LivinLOS]

Moral issues aside...

Just installed adblock+ and the G filter set and auto updater to firefox.. WOW doubled my browsing sped at least.. I guess I knew about adblockers but hadnt really considered how much time was wasted collecting different banners from different servers to render the page..

Thats a keeper..

[yeti]

Just tried to load this page with and without ad blocker (emptying the cache folder before both tries), from 11s down to 6s.

It's nearly half the time, but just a small difference anyway (5s).

[TVLover]

Hi cv,

This could be an endless debate.

Working in marketing, I have a slightly different opinion.

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Ps: sorry to the original poster for this post hijack.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not at all, yeti! It's helpful. Thanks to those who have contributed, we already have a lot of useful input in order to help us eliminate ads and surf faster (I said 'we' because I am certain that others will benefit from this input, too). I find your "debate" with cdnvic equally interesting and, who knows, I might even join it later...!

Honestly, when I started this topic, I expected we would have this discussion, although it was not the purpose of my posting...

[TVLover]

Moral issues aside...

Just installed adblock+ and the G filter set and auto updater to firefox.. WOW doubled my browsing sped at least.. I guess I knew about adblockers but hadnt really considered how much time was wasted collecting different banners from different servers to render the page..

Thats a keeper..

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

"doubled your browsing speed" did you say?? That's a lot! Good to hear this!

[TVLover]

Just tried to load this page with and without ad blocker (emptying the cache folder before both tries), from 11s down to 6s.

It's nearly half the time, but just a small difference anyway (5s).

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I don't think it's a small difference, if you consider that, every time you load a page, you save some 50% on the total loading time. If you cumulate the time you save over a long period of time you use to surf, it will all add up and become significant.

And this makes me think that, for those who access the Net on a non-unlimited package and who are charged by their ISP according to the time they spend on-line (especially through dial-up access), they will not only save time, but also money! No wonder why I've never seen ad blockers installed in Internet Cafes!

[Abandon]

I dumped FireFox few weeks ago for Maxthon, and I found that the integrated ad blocker system is really more effective than the one from FireFox...

right on Yeti - I never looked back after going to Maxthon. There do seem to be many little problems with Firefox. Maxthon works excellently without any tweeking - I simply never see any ads. Pity really, I used to like the Flash movie ads on Yahoo news.

For sites such as this it would be fine with me if the sponsors were more visible - such as incorporating the sponsor names in the Forum software ... but I won't turn off the ad blocker due to all the other sites whose ads I don't want to see. Seems to me that 'yellow page' kind of ads are handy to have around. trying out this site without the blocker I found that it is no slower to DL and the ads are fairly well targeted to the individual reader.

(p.s. doing fine Yeti cheers ... back in a few months)