On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:56:47PM -0600, Chris Burkhardt wrote:
>
>John Beckett wrote:
>> The Vim Tips wiki is at http://vim.wikia.com/
>> 
>> Wikia is a for-profit company. They tried unobtrusive text ads, but found 
>> their
>> revenue is insufficient (in fact, there are current news stories about 10% 
>> of Wikia
>> staff being layed off).
>> 
>> Therefore, Wikia has made some changes which have finally hit our wiki:
>> - Anonymous users will see ads on most pages.
>> - Logged on users should only see ads on the main page.
>> - Logged on users will see a blank space instead of an ad.
>> - Some ads are really ugly flash crap (can be reported).
>> - The default skin has changed to Monaco Smoke.
>>
>
>I don't see any ads while browsing anonymously with the Adblock Plus add-on for
>Firefox enabled. That's one workaround, if the new ads are bothering people.
>
>- Chris

With privoxy i don't see any ads either. Privoxy is a proxy filtering
websites und supported for a wide range of operating systems. Perhaps
privoxy is a simple solution for people not using firefox.

Kind regards

Chris 

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