Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Bill Baxter" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:mailman.658.1233882921.22690.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... >>> http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions I'm not exaggerating when I say >>> that for a few months before I found that addon, using the web was so bad >>> I >>> was *very* close to abandoning use of the web entirely. >> What kind of sites do you go that are so bad? I find things a little >> annoying without FlashBlock, and I have Firefox's default popup >> blocking on, but with those two things, I don't see much of anything >> all *that* annoying in my day-to-day web use. So I'm wondering if it >> has to do with the sites you frequent or something? Or is it just >> your threshold for tolerating an ad or two is so much lower than mine? >> > > FlashBlock is another one of my essential addons :) > > Let me put it this way: I don't have any sort of documented reading > disability (ex, I've always done well on reading comprehension tests). But > dispite that, I find it nearly impossible to read anything more than a > single trivial sentence whenever there's anything moving, blinking, > spinning, a slideshow, etc anywhere near the text (or when there's a voice > reading it to me). It's not just annoying, it's a genuine distraction that > my mind is simply unable to block out. Plus, as far as I'm concerned, there > shouldn't be any moving, spinning, pulsating, animating crap to be blocked > out of my mind in the first place.
I run AdBlock, NoScript, FlashBlock and Nuke Anything Enchanced. And if I DO see an ad get through all that, I add the company to my mental "people I will never buy from" list. I'm an advertiser's worst nightmare. -- Daniel
