by v1adimir » September 30th, 2018, 9:57 am
Just noticed this one, "some of the ads"? Hah! Adblock Plus had started the original revolution, integrating ad-blocking with the browser - and we no longer had to use localhost proxies for content and script filtering - and, these days, we're usually using uBlock Origin, right? I have no idea who (in their right mind) wouldn't be blocking (all!) ads today!..:)
One example, who remembers the wonderful (!) piece of software, "Proxomitron" and there were a few other, great, ones 2. Anyway, until Google (will probably do it first) invents a way to serve ads through the (1st party) domain... Until then, it's like in the film, "Dude, Where's My Car":
WTF is the -Internet- ads!
xD
EDIT: Which reminds me of, just, how AWESOME Firefox is... The
about:config settings allow us to, in effect, be able to filter content like with 3rd party specialized software by turning off a BUNCH of stuff - and hopefully we're to have these abilities far into the future (or, you know, we'll end up ditching it at some point.)
*pop-ups, unders, JavaScript events, tracking and telemetry, exchange of information with anything other than the site we're visiting, "offline data" (LMAO, what a concept) and so on and so forth; every once in a while Mozilla removes more and more control from users - by, either, hiding things from interface menus, or integrating (and compiling with the browser) things that nobody wants, or needs - but, so far we can still fight back and keep Firefox as a useful tool and not a (privacy-invading, tracking, spying) hindrance. =)
Just noticed this one, "some of the ads"? Hah! Adblock Plus had started the original revolution, integrating ad-blocking with the browser - and we no longer had to use localhost proxies for content and script filtering - and, these days, we're usually using uBlock Origin, right? I have no idea who (in their right mind) wouldn't be blocking (all!) ads today!..:)
One example, who remembers the wonderful (!) piece of software, "Proxomitron" and there were a few other, great, ones 2. Anyway, until Google (will probably do it first) invents a way to serve ads through the (1st party) domain... Until then, it's like in the film, "Dude, Where's My Car":[quote]WTF is the -Internet- ads![/quote]xD
[b]EDIT[/b]: Which reminds me of, just, how AWESOME Firefox is... The [b]about:config[/b] settings allow us to, in effect, be able to filter content like with 3rd party specialized software by turning off a BUNCH of stuff - and hopefully we're to have these abilities far into the future (or, you know, we'll end up ditching it at some point.)
*pop-ups, unders, JavaScript events, tracking and telemetry, exchange of information with anything other than the site we're visiting, "offline data" (LMAO, what a concept) and so on and so forth; every once in a while Mozilla removes more and more control from users - by, either, hiding things from interface menus, or integrating (and compiling with the browser) things that nobody wants, or needs - but, so far we can still fight back and keep Firefox as a useful tool and not a (privacy-invading, tracking, spying) hindrance. =)