Comments on: This blog is not ad supported

By: “If your soul purpose in writing a blog is to make money off of ad revenue, stop…

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:34:47 +0000

[...] This blog is not ad supported I’m sick of the whining about internet ad blocking and the claims that it is or should be illegal. This blog is not ad supported. It does track you, for which I hope you will forgive me, usin… [...]

By: Serafean

Serafean — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:08:11 +0000

Hi, I agree with your sentiment, and would like to share my experiences : I am using 2 lists I block directly on my router (using dnsmasq), one is from http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ , the other is from http://someonewhocares.org/; It provides automatic ad-free browsing for any device on my network. Which I think is pretty neat (no need to install extensions)

By: Acca

Acca — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:47:49 +0000

Using Adblock Plus since a long time on Firefox now (and installed it on my friend’s Chrome and Safari), had used Ghostery in the past but completly forgot about it: now it’s back in the team!
Thank you for pointing out that using adblock and such doesn’t really damage the sites we’d like to support, since they could use flattr or subscriptions or whatever to gain money. I think a corollary would be how people copies successful videos on youtube to reupload them, just to have them viewed, or how people give really attractive titles to videos of -say- cats…

By: Grant McDuling

Grant McDuling — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:47:44 +0000

Nice, thought-provoking blog, Dusty. Aa a professional writer, I agree with your sentiment. And since I started using Arch, I have taken to adopting the Arch way in my writing too!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:11:15 +0000

You’re darned right you’re not the only one who feels sick of being treated like a product.
I could not agree with you more.

By: Todd S.

Todd S. — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:48:26 +0000

I’ve been using NoScript and RequestPolicy for some time now with Firefox. Is Ghostery capable of replacing one or both of those, and would it provide anything they can’t?

By: cippaciong

cippaciong — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:34:07 +0000

Thank you for this post. I feel the same way about internet advertisements, there are simply too many out there and we must do something to contrast this.
And thanks for ghostery too, I didn’t know this plug-in and is very useful!