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Ad flog Plus: Adblock Plus now an advertising network, takes cash to broker web banners

Magani
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Harrumpf

AB+ together with NoScript have kept me happy to date.

Until sites actually write the ads into their own pages, there is still a link one can sidestep on the way to an ad-free browsing experience.

As an aside, I started using these add-ons (no pun intended) because I was at the end of a very thin connection, paid by the electron for my connection and didn't see the need to pay (or wait) for ads to use my meagre download allowance.

Since then, I now have a reasonable connection, both in capacity and cost, and I no longer have to wait while ads load. My curmudgeonliness has changed to where I just don't want to see ads, period! For exactly the same reason, I no longer watch commercial free-to-air TV nor purchase the local Murdoch tabloid/rag whose every second page is a full-page ad.

As mentioned above, if I want to buy something, I'll go and research it. Just because you try and stick it in front of me while I'm trying to read something on the InnerTubes does not mean you get my custom.

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