Not Enough Ads? Install Adbar. 451
An anonymous reader writes "Jesse Ruderman brings the worst feature of Opera, Advertisements, to Firefox with his extension Adbar. According to the page, 'adbar displays Google ads related to pages you view. Because the ads are relevant, they are occasionally useful. When adbar isn't displaying ads from Google, it displays Firefox-related things such as silly Firefox slogans, ads for other Mozilla software, and requests for donations to the Mozilla Foundation.'"
Does Google know about this? (Score:5, Informative)
So, I'm wondering if they approved this project. If they haven't, then Google will be pulling the plug very shortly...
Re:cashola! (Score:3, Informative)
RTFA.
Re:Does Google know about this? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Well (Score:5, Informative)
But you're not helping anyone other than the advertisers. The adbar is run in test mode: the developer doesn't make a dime, and google doesn't make a dime.
So, unless you're referring to the moral high road of all advertisers who display web ad content, which I find hard to believe, you're just another schmuck who hasn't read the damn article
Jesse Ruderman? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Does Google know about this? (Score:3, Informative)
B: Require that an AdSense publisher have a cookie linking them to an AdSense account, and kill off any account that doesn't play by the rules.
C: Limit the number of requests per day in the same way they limit the Google API.
Re:Registering to get rid of ads? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Well (Score:3, Informative)
they don't
Re:That's the thing about ads (Score:5, Informative)
* They can send you unwanted advertisements (spam e-mail, junk faxes, telemarketing, adware). With spam and ads from adware, it is often difficult to tell where the ad came from and how to stop receiving ads from that source.
* They can select which ads to show you based on information you consider private, such as demographic information or the contents of e-mails you receive.
I don't mind the second, as long as I don't see ads for porn while someone is looking over my shoulder. Google was wise to make Gmail select ads based only on the current message.
Re:Speaking of ads...how can I get more? (Score:1, Informative)
Use adblock [mozilla.org]. For those pesky IPs
It's very simple to use. Use wildcards and regexes to block whole categories not just individual ads.
Re:BAH! Missing features! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:license (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Yeah, ok. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Does Google know about this? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Get rid of the ads? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I find the Opera thing quite useful (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Opera users (Score:4, Informative)
Also, Opera still has a magical interface. If I misclose a window, I can hit Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Alt+Z and it is magically restored. I don't need to install extensions to get tabs to behave sensically.
And so on.
He did buy the uid on ebay (Score:5, Informative)
Re:He did buy the uid on ebay (Score:5, Informative)
He paid $115 for that ID! I guess he was sick of his current low karma [slashdot.org]
LOL!