On 25/10/08 07:53, Christoph Spohr wrote:
> 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

Adblock Plus is available also on SeaMonkey (at least Sm2 "alpha"; I 
haven't checked Sm1 "release"), and for people using IE, Safari or 
Konqueror: Firefox and SeaMonkey are available for free for all their 
OSes. Or course they might have other reasons not to use them...


Best regards,
Tony.
-- 
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be
taught how _not_ to.  So it is with the great programmers.

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