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Google Earth for Linux

Posted Jun 16, 2006 6:01 UTC (Fri) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: Google Earth for Linux by man_ls
Parent article: Google Earth for Linux

How do you block ads in such a way that images are served? All the web
advertisement blocking software I've ever used prevents the advertising
images from being downloaded entirely.

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Google Earth for Linux

Posted Jun 16, 2006 7:02 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (1 responses)

If you right-click on an image, Firefox will offer to "block images from" the originating site. Useful for graphic ads, since they are normally served from specific servers; the image is downloaded (if you look carefully at the status bar you will still see a request to that server) but not displayed. Effective and integrated in the browser -- one of those nice little features Internet Explorer will never have.

Add to this not having the flash plugin, and browsing becomes a pleasant experience once more. (Text ads are shown, but they are normally unobstrusive and once in a while even useful.)

As to click-throughs on those ads, I have always thought that 90% of them are done by mistake. So the probability of an ad being clicked on is just proportional to its size. It still holds with blocked ads.

Google Earth for Linux

Posted Aug 17, 2006 12:54 UTC (Thu) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

I can assure you that Firefox's Adblock does not download the
advertisement images.