AdBlock. The collapse of the internet

Hobbes

I installed the AdBlock Plugin for Firefox. It's brilliant! It is a bit like image blocking, except you can create a mask for images/iframes.

I've been running it on a few sites (BB site being the worst so far for trying to redisplay adverts). The pages look like before all this advertising crap started. Its a breath of fresh air.

However I can see advertising models changing or dying because of it.

Stark

It's fantastic. And unlike some other ad blockers it blocks the ad before it gets downloaded (other ad blockers allow the ad to be downloaded just not shown, so the site is still as slow as ever).

parasite

/\D\d{2,3}x\d{2,3}\D/
googlesyndication
us.yimg.com/a/
/\/buy_assets\//
/[\W\d_](top|bottom|left|right|)?banner(s|id=|\d|_)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d](double|fast)click[\W\d]/
/[\W\d]click(stream|thrutraffic|thru|xchange)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d]value(stream|xchange|click)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d]dime(xchange|click)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d](onlineads?|ad(banner|click|-?flow|frame|ima?g(es?)?|_id|js|log|serv(er|e)?|stream|_string|s|trix|type|vertisements?|v|vert|xchange)?)[\W\d]/

alleepally

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to download it now.

Spunog UIE

i like it with the ad images collapsed.

Cabaal

Hobbes wrote:

I installed the AdBlock Plugin for Firefox. It's brilliant!.....
I've been running it on a few sites (BB site being the worst so far for trying to redisplay adverts). The pages look like before all this advertising crap started. Its a breath of fresh air.
However I can see advertising models changing or dying because of it.

I've found it does a excellent job, can't beat wildcards of */banners/*
BUT I've found I can't block the google txt advert when I login to gmail.com, if I do it blocks EVERYTHING on the whole page

Other then that adblock along with default pop-up blocking in Mozilla works a threat

Some of the rules I have set in adblock

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http://ar1.atwola.com/content/*
http://au.i1.yimg.com/*
http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/*
http://www.ad.tomshardware.com/*
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/*
http://ar.atwola.com/*
http://ar1.atwola.com/html/*
http://ads.web.aol.com/*
http://ad.doubleclick.net/*
http://ads.com.com/*
http://a.as-eu.falkag.net/*
*/banners/*
*/banner/*
*/ads/*
*/ad/*
*/adverts/*
*/adimage.php*
*/adimages/*
*/adimage/*
*/ads.cgi*
*ads.osdn.com*
*adimage.php*
*.doubleclick.*
*adcycle.cgi*
*msads.net/*
*ar1.atwola.com/*

OfflerCrocGod

Yes it's the main reason I'm so pro-Firefox It shows you a different internet to what everyone else is seeing - it make me pity poor IE users who afto put up with ads everywhere and all the time :mad:

l3rian

i use internet explorer and popup cop, it suppresses images, flash movies, scripts and popups, it has a nice little shifter too that allows for different levels of annoying sites

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

What about sites that rely on advertising to stay open? Do you block the Boards.ie banners?

Stephen

I don't mind the google ads like we have on boards - its garish animated gifs/flash ads that really piss me off - they get instantly blocked.

aodh_rua

You gotta love Firebird - and if recent reports are anything to go by its eating into IE's share too.

Raskolnikov

OrangeRhino wrote:

What about sites that rely on advertising to stay open? Do you block the Boards.ie banners?

If you've got a guilty conscience you can allow the ads to be downloaded, just not viewed.

Cabaal

wrote:

But don't they still miss out on the click-pay which is ultimatly the whole point of the banner in the first place?

Stephen

I can't remember ever clicking on a banner anyways, 99% of them are US based and have no relevance to me anyway.

Hobbes

OrangeRhino wrote:

What about sites that rely on advertising to stay open? Do you block the Boards.ie banners?

I don't mind boards adverts or google adverts for that matter. It is the crappy flashing "Look at me" adverts or the ones that take up 3/4 of the page.

I've clicked on a few boards.ie adverts to give them revenue, but in general an internet advert (especially annoying ones) guarantees I don't buy the product.

Stephen

lol

google ad at the top of this page:

Try Ultimate Ad Block
Scan your PC for harmful Spyware & Block all Ad's Now. Try Free! aff

Does that sound funny to anyone else? Web-advertising a product that blocks web ads. Its like anti-spam companies spamming you with ads for their product.

Töpher

Aye, AdBlock is brilliant. Particularily on some sites that won't display until the ads are all downloaded, *cough*ITV*cough* , works a treat!

Raskolnikov

Cabaal wrote:

But don't they still miss out on the click-pay which is ultimatly the whole point of the banner in the first place?

I always thought that a small fee was paid to have the banner on the page in the first place, extra was then paid if users clicked on it.

I'm still going to block all ads. If boards.ie needs the money then they should set up a PayPal account so we can donate to. I'd happily pay revenue that boards.ie loses from having me blocking ads.

LoBo

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/subscriptions.php
Block the ads. Become a boards.ie subscriber.

Or, just block the ads.

RobertFoster

Stephen wrote:

I can't remember ever clicking on a banner anyways

I've only ever clicked on one or two, when I was new to the Internet...I soon learned that you can't win $20 from catching a monkey so I stopped clicking the ads.

Spunog UIE

LoBo wrote:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/subscriptions.php
Block the ads. Become a boards.ie subscriber.

**** thats expensive, i'd imagine there be a lot more people if it was reduced. 15-20euro per year and I'd think about it.