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| Thread ID: 108409 | 2010-03-27 23:13:00 | Ad blocking? please think again | Deimos (5715) | Press F1 |
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| 870445 | 2010-03-28 00:47:00 | I gave up on this site until I changed to Firefox. I'm on dial up, and it took for ever and a day to appear. Now, no probs - and I use blocking of course. | Peter H (220) | ||
| 870446 | 2010-03-28 00:53:00 | I have no problem with ads - but I do have a big problem with the way they are implemented on PressF1. The community here adds a pretty decent chunk of value to NZ PC World (more than it costs them to run) - I personally feel that we deserve to be treated better, rather than being showered in crap. As a result of the above... click here (pressf1.co.nz) to fix the site :rolleyes:. +1 and ABP doees a reasonable job, though not as thoroughly as Erayd's script. |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 870447 | 2010-03-28 01:52:00 | Well one of the sites is this site. Actually its the worst site, that I go to. Which is why I block them +2. Bugger the ads, and yes my bandwidth is crap - don't need it to be made worse by rubbish. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 870448 | 2010-03-28 01:57:00 | I have no problems or qualms whatsoever about blocking advertisements. Some of the best music oriented sites with forums I go to are "privately" run with no ads. A streaming site like Live365, I subscribe to, so I dont get any live ads. anyway. Another music site (1920s/30s) with over 20,000 music files asks for donations, that's ok too. Some other sites say disable Adblock + if you want access, that's ok too. Back in the early days of www ( when Bill Gates said they had no interest in the Internet :) )when pages were very text like there were no ads, then the greedies saw there was money to be made with ads. If a particular site can't survive because of ad blocking, then el tougho. :2cents: |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 870449 | 2010-03-28 02:45:00 | Can someone explain how ad blocking software stops the ads from being downloaded? I thought these blockers just stopped the ads from displaying in the browser. Surely the ad-blocker runs on the local PC and it determines whether the ad is displayed or not. Or is is that only "part of the ad" is downloaded and the blocking mechanism prevents the "rest of the ad" from arriving? Any ideas? | AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 870450 | 2010-03-28 02:56:00 | Well,the point is you dont want to see it. So, even if it downloads, you wont see it anyway | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 870451 | 2010-03-28 03:07:00 | PressF1 doesn't survive on ads. It complements the printed version of NZ PCworld. That's how it started, to the best of my knowledge. The ads are just more revenue. Sadly I predict that the printed version of PCworld will die sometime soon. Personally, I refuse to pay to view advertisements (either in time or bandwidth), which is why I block all Internet adverts. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 870452 | 2010-03-28 03:12:00 | I assumed Adblocker + also prevented downloading of ads, but also by putting the adserver addresses into HOSTS, like inl.adbureau.net, ads.fairfax.com.au, then they definitley do not get downloaded. A double insurance if you like. :clap begone all adds and double clicks and google analytics :punk | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 870453 | 2010-03-28 03:13:00 | I assumed Adblocker + also prevented downloading of ads...It does. Can someone explain how ad blocking software stops the ads from being downloaded? I thought these blockers just stopped the ads from displaying in the browser. Surely the ad-blocker runs on the local PC and it determines whether the ad is displayed or not. Or is is that only "part of the ad" is downloaded and the blocking mechanism prevents the "rest of the ad" from arriving? Any ideas? The blocking software looks at the markup that defines the page, and determines which external elements are advertising. It then blocks the browser from downloading those elements. The reason this works is that anything you see on a webpage other than text (and sometimes even text) must be downloaded separately from the rest of the page. Your browser requests the page markup first, then reads it to determine what additional resources it requires (e.g. stylesheets, javascript, images, embedded media, advertising). Anything that the adblocker says shouldn't be downloaded, isn't. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 870454 | 2010-03-28 03:14:00 | PressF1 doesn't survive on ads. It complements the printed version of NZ PCworld. That's how it started, to the best of my knowledge. The ads are just more revenue. Sadly I predict that the printed version of PCworld will die sometime soon. Personally, I refuse to pay to view advertisements (either in time or bandwidth), which is why I block all Internet adverts. Right, there was actually a time before PF1 and before Google....I remember it well.:lol: |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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