RE: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Louis Couturier
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from recouperating the costs of maintaining

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Julia Thompson
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: Advertising space is somewhat based on viewership, which indeed cannot be counted, but mostly, its about number of hits. For example, Google's prices are based on the popularity of the words to which the add is associated as well as the number of follow

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Matt Grimaldi
John D. Giorgis wrote: Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from recouperating the costs of maintaining these

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread The Fool
From: Matt Grimaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Giorgis wrote: Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 21:08 06-11-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote: Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from recouperating the costs of

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
The Fool wrote: I consider banner ads to be a necessary evil, but the advertisers routinely abuse this by coding pop-up ads that can spawn up to 30 different browser windows, each with defensive coding that opens more windows when you close it. This has crashed my computer on more

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-06 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 05:02 PM 10/14/2002 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote: Someone on another mailing list I'm on posted a link for Ad Death, which kills most banner ads. http://www.jonathanclark.com/ad_death/ Has anyone here used it? I'd like more than one person's recommendation before I decide whether or not to

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-06 Thread Julia Thompson
John D. Giorgis wrote: At 05:02 PM 10/14/2002 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote: Someone on another mailing list I'm on posted a link for Ad Death, which kills most banner ads. http://www.jonathanclark.com/ad_death/ Has anyone here used it? I'd like more than one person's recommendation

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: Software question -- anyone use this? At 05:02 PM 10/14/2002 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote: Someone on another mailing list I'm on posted a link

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-06 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 09:36 PM 11/6/2002 -0500 Jim Sharkey wrote: If not, how is an ad-blocker all that different? Ruthless efficiency. You'll never see an ad with a well-designed ad-blocker, which means that you'll never pay for the benefit of enjoying that website. JDG

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-06 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 08:38 PM 11/6/2002 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote: How you figger? Most website make money hosting ads based on how many visitors they have. I dont think the advertisers have any idea how many people use ad blocking software and the websites certainly wouldnt give up that info if indeed they even

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-06 Thread The Fool
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:02 PM 10/14/2002 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote: Someone on another mailing list I'm on posted a link for Ad Death, which kills most banner ads. http://www.jonathanclark.com/ad_death/ Has anyone here used it? I'd like more than one person's

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-10-15 Thread Rik Burke
The Fool said: http://www.jonathanclark.com/ad_death/ Has anyone here used it? I'd like more than one person's recommendation before I decide whether or not to download it. When you can use proxomitron, why bother? Proxomitron + webwasher. That is power. I can provide screenshots

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-10-15 Thread The Fool
From: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: When you can use proxomitron, why bother? Proxomitron + webwasher. That is power. I can provide screenshots for the unbelievers. Wow! Just loaded Proxomitron - free, and no more banners or pop-ups! What's the catch?? No catch.

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-10-14 Thread The Fool
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone on another mailing list I'm on posted a link for Ad Death, which kills most banner ads. http://www.jonathanclark.com/ad_death/ Looks like pathetic crap. It also looks like it's just one big ad for

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-10-14 Thread Doug
The Fool wrote: When you can use proxomitron, why bother? Proxomitron + webwasher. That is power. I can provide screenshots for the unbelievers. Wow! Just loaded Proxomitron - free, and no more banners or pop-ups! What's the catch?? Doug If it's too good to be true...