kripz Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I see most people here use FF now. 1 Year ago here when i use to be active FF was unheard of. Now when i look around i see nobody using ablock? why? its the greatest thing ever invented. Once you use it you cant ever not be without it. Install these in the following order: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... dows&id=10 https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... on=firefox Do you use ablock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 How do you know that most Firefox users here dont have adblock? Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
____ Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I don't need adblock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vape Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 How do you know most people here use Firefox? Define "unheard of" - a year ago Firefox 1.0 was at almost 20k downloads. Mozilla had run a double page ad in the new york times. Hardly unheard of. How do you know nobody is using adblock? Adblock is not the greatest thing ever invented. It's had that many memory leaks it's not funny. No I don't use adblock. I use flashblock. I respect webmasters' financial needs. Where the bloody hell are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I just have greasemonkey scripts to remove adverts from individual sites that i belive have intrusive adverts. I certainly dont block all adverts. If i didnt have adverts on my sites I couldnt run them. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannibal Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I see most people here use FF now. 1 Year ago here when i use to be active FF was unheard of. Now when i look around i see nobody using ablock? why? its the greatest thing ever invented. Once you use it you cant ever not be without it. Install these in the following order: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... dows&id=10 https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... on=firefox Do you use ablock? 1 year ago Firefox 1.0 was already out, so lots of the more technical people on this forum already used it. So your first point is silly. Like Cameron said, Adblock leaks memory like a sieve, and there's so many flavours of it by now that I've lost count. It's ridiculous. Then there's the ethical matter of blocking any and all adverts. Some people actually need the money to run their site (eg, Tip it, though I'll be the first to admit that some of their ads suck and/or are invasive). Lastly, like rick said, I don't need adblock. I frankly haven't found a site that gets past Firefox 1.5's popup blocker, and I just read around everything else. Works great for me. Sites that have *really* bad adverts aren't worth visiting anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Like Cameron said, Adblock leaks memory like a sieve I reinstalled it yesterday funnily enough lol then I decided to look at task manager when FF was lagging a bit to see how much memory is was eating away at. It was over 600,000 when FF normally runs at 10% of that. I promptly uninstalled it. hehe Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezcake Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Adblock kept blocking things that I wanted to see, and I couldn't figure out the options to unblock. So I uninstalled. :) ==================================Retired tip.it moderator.Teaching and inspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albosky Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Personally , i prefer a good HOSTS file over anything else :) I like to fart silently but deadly in movie theatersArd Choille says (11:41 PM):I wouldn't dare tell you what to do m'dear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Militaris Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Blocking of ads is wrong, if you do not want to view advertisments, do not visit the website. It can not be any more simple. Advertisements help fund the content of the websites which in most cases you do not pay anything to view. (I do not use any form of adblocking (pop ups are quite rare now, atleast on the sites I view), but I do have a habit of blocking everything which is not text or formatting) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahoo Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 shouldn't really mess with the hosts file :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 shouldn't really mess with the hosts file :? Why not? Mine has over 8000 lines of blocked domains Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterOfThePuppets Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 shouldn't really mess with the hosts file :? Why not? Mine has over 8000 lines of blocked domains Any chance of you posting it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runesmithie Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Blocking of ads is wrong, if you do not want to view advertisments, do not visit the website. It can not be any more simple. Advertisements help fund the content of the websites which in most cases you do not pay anything to view. (I do not use any form of adblocking (pop ups are quite rare now, atleast on the sites I view), but I do have a habit of blocking everything which is not text or formatting) I seem to remember an option in one adblocker program I've tried that allows you to hide the ad, but it still loads the content I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 shouldn't really mess with the hosts file :? Why not? Mine has over 8000 lines of blocked domains Any chance of you posting it? No, it contains many links to sites not considered suitable to be posted on a family forum. Many sites are also spyware infested. It would be a disaster if anyone visited them without protection. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kripz Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 I didnt say FF was unheard of, just here, every SS of runescape was on IE. I dont know what you guys were doing wrong, did you use the advanced filters? or did you just block every domain as in http://www.example.com/* The filters i use are very good, hardly any ads get through and it auto updates filters. Right now im only using 40MB memory from FF. I seem to remember an option in one adblocker program I've tried that allows you to hide the ad, but it still loads the content This one does that, i think thers another option to make it replace ads with the word "AD" and you can click on it to view it. Blocking of ads is wrong, if you do not want to view advertisments, do not visit the website. It can not be any more simple. Advertisements help fund the content of the websites which in most cases you do not pay anything to view. Viewing ads doesnt give the website money, clicking them does, ive never clicked an ad in my life so even if i didnt block them they wouldnt be making money off me. How do you know that most Firefox users here dont have adblock? http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=269556 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eeeeediot Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Viewing ads doesnt give the website money, clicking them does, ive never clicked an ad in my life so even if i didnt block them they wouldnt be making money off me. Gotta correct you there actually. Advertising networks can pay per click (CPC) or pay per thousand impressions (CPM) where the site recieves a certain amount for every thousand page views, aka impressions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McGuff1 Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 I've been using something called Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts file for quite a while and I hardly ever see an add. Works for all browsers because it uses the host file to block ips of ad sites. I'd recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vape Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 How do you know that most Firefox users here dont have adblock?http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=269556~100 people have posted in that topic. These forums have had over a hundred thousand people register for them. Firefox is sitting at about 10% market share worldwide, but for a tech-gaming-orientated site like this, I'd guess we'd probably have 15-20%, maybe even much higher. Even if we only had 10% of Tip.it forum users using Firefox, that'd still be 10,000 Firefox users - considerably more than the 100 who posted in that topic ;) Where the bloody hell are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomster Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Viewing ads doesnt give the website money, clicking them does, ive never clicked an ad in my life so even if i didnt block them they wouldnt be making money off me. Gotta correct you there actually. Advertising networks can pay per click (CPC) or pay per thousand impressions (CPM) where the site recieves a certain amount for every thousand page views, aka impressions. CPM is pretty rare these days, or rates would be extremely low due the the low rate of clicks. Some ads are blocked automatically by the default blocklist in my firewall (Outpost Pro). Additionally, for being total garbage, the ad Networks "Falk adsolution" (falkag) and Tribalfusion receive there own special domain based blocking - the day ONE of their ads tried to do a drive-by download on me, was the day they joined my "shoot on sight" list forever - NO COMPROMISES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaN Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 shouldn't really mess with the hosts file :? Why not? Mine has over 8000 lines of blocked domains Any chance of you posting it? No, it contains many links to sites not considered suitable to be posted on a family forum. Many sites are also spyware infested. It would be a disaster if anyone visited them without protection. Mines the same or should I say was back when I used windows. For really nasty sites I block at the router so as to prevent all computers at home reacting the site. ~Dan64AuSince 27 Aug 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I didnt say FF was unheard of, just here, every SS of runescape was on IE. This is because runescape cannot be played to its full potential in FF. This is why IE (or the client) is the suggested browser for poeple playing rs. One example of this is no sound in FF. Just because people rs in IE doesn't mean they use IE for normal browsing. How do you know that most Firefox users here dont have adblock? http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=269556 Most poeple choose to only block ads which are intrusive or laggy (or which cause other problems) Some of us actually like to support the site by clicking ads once in a while. Personally I only got adblock when I was getting ads that made me lag really badly, which was quite recently. I had no use for it until then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor_Dave Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 I use Adblock, It blocks just about every single ad and theres the advantage of being able to disable site ad's (such as the f2p adverts on runescape) so I don't think it's all that bad myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValaraZ Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I didnt say FF was unheard of, just here, every SS of runescape was on IE. I see most people here use FF now. 1 Year ago here when i use to be active FF was unheard of. i just couldn't resist. on topic (sorta): thanks for the info on adblock, i uninstalled it right away and installed flashblock. man it's so much better. :) Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant: "If I live, I will kill you, If I Die, you are forgiven." Such is the Rule of Honor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigevil Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 I use Firefox pretty much as my only browser. Haven't used Adblock for over 2 yrs, blocks too many things I want to actually see. Adblock has also been implicated in a lot of the crashes people are having with 1.5 and 1.5.0.1. Just jump over to the Mozillazine forums. I use the NoScript extension(blocks Java, Javascript and Flash) and the HOSTS file from: Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Blocks most malware sites and quite a few of the big adware companies like Tribalfusion and Caselmedia. Of course I also run my Linux machine 9 out of 10 days so the malware sites aren't a problem. Proud member of Affliction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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