Ad-masking: its about performance as well as bandwidth
"Give us ad-masking instead."
I used noscript for quite a long time mainly to speed the performance of Firefox (Linux/Core Duo laptop from 2007 with 2Gb RAM).
Now I'm experimenting with a hosts file that redirects most of the adbots to localhost while allowing 'organic' ads through. Similar performance gain while still 'playing the game' to some extent, full javascript page 'enhancement' and less overhead in Firefox from noscript itself.
Ad-masking would still hit performance on lower powered devices (both cheapo tablet and older kit).
I'm using a dongle for Internet access as an experiment this month before cancelling the adsl 'broadband' and the landline.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
