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AdblockAdblockPosted Aug 12, 2010 3:11 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)In reply to: Adblock by cesarb Parent article: The LinuxCon media panel
I don't run Adblock the software, but I seldom see ads. I am so tuned to ignoring them that my brain just blanks them out. About the only time I am aware of them is when they are truly obnoxious with blinking or flashing.
I sometimes wonder what would happen if ads were cut back to 1/100 or 1/1000 of the current frequency, if ads were such novel events that I did pay attention to them. From an admaker's point of view, you can't cut them them back so far as to become affordable only to huge corporations. But if I only had a few hundred in view in a single day, counting computers, magazines, billboards, ads on taxis and buses and so on, and there was little repetition, I might just actually be aware of some of them.
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Adblock Posted Aug 15, 2010 14:39 UTC (Sun) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link]
I also never used AdBlock, I never really saw the problem. Mind you, I also don't have Flash installed which may have helped.
But then a month ago I was reading a article and halfway down bits starting disappearing from my screen and a fripping animated transformer appeared right over the text I was reading. That killed it for me, I finally spent the few minutes to workout how to installed AdBlock just so I could read the bloody article in peace.
I suppose a lot more gets blocked as collateral damage but I'm not sure whether I care about that...
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