ad-blocking

I haven't updated it once, and I get effortless ad-blocking no matter what browser I'm using.

Google Chrome 2 Brings New Features And Serious Speed | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Assuming you don't have ad-blocking software installed, when was the last time you gave more than a glance to a display ad on a Web page?

Advertisements on the iPad? Bring 'Em On. Nick Summers 2010

The same goes for Chrome, whose ad-blocking extension is downloaded at a rate of 100,000 times a week and now has more than 1 million users.

Why is digital advertising so lousy? Industry is too smug to innovate. Frederic Filloux 2010

Using free web proxy and ad-blocking software Privoxy, you can block distracting advertisements in Google Chrome.

The Power User’s Guide to Google Chrome | Lifehacker Australia 2008

I also think that mass use of ad-blocking would have underisable side-effects (ads that appeared to be part of the page contents) as sites sought a way to make money.

Google Chrome and the future of browsers | FactoryCity 2008

I spotted this comment in an excellent Guardian ad-blocking story:

Why is digital advertising so lousy? Industry is too smug to innovate. Frederic Filloux 2010

I haven't updated it once, and I get effortless ad-blocking no matter what browser I'm using.

Google Chrome 2 Brings New Features And Serious Speed | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Again, we could just use an existing popular ad-blocking plugin if we can convince the devs to join our side.

Real Men of Genius: Mr. Domain Name Hoarder Luis von Ahn 2009

The open-source project was inspired by the popularity of ad-blocking Firefox extensions—Adblock Plus, the perennial Lifehacker favorite, is downloaded over 250,000 times a week—and a desire to put all those blocked pitches to good use.

Add-Art Replaces Advertisements With Artwork | Lifehacker Australia 2009

It will be interesting to see if Twitterific, IM clients and other Twitter platforms begin to implement ad-blocking.

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