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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
