On 06/01/12 12:33, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 01/05/2012 02:29 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Of course having the Adblock plugin is better in a number of ways. Agreed, but I had to ding the devs of Adblock for their recent slip in of the default setting to:
"Allow some non-intrusive advertising"
WTF?? It appeared and smelled like a sellout. When the add-on update hit my kids boxes, and they had no idea what this was, and I was shocked to find it enabled by default. Hopefully Adblock will re-think the cost to its reputation for this 'let the ads that pay us in' option...
(yes I see that it is only for small ads, yada yada yada.. right bucko)
If you haven't checked, go to:
Edit->Preferences->Add-ons->Adblock Plus->Filter Preferences, then uncheck:
[x] Allow some non-intrusive advertising
Good grief!
Next to that disabling box is "Read More" and when you do read more it states: What is this about? Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0 you can allow some of the advertising that is considered not annoying. By doing this you support websites that rely on advertising but choose to do it in a non-intrusive way. And you give these websites an advantage over their competition which encourages other websites to use non-intrusive advertising as well. In the long term the web will become a better place for everybody, not only Adblock Plus users. Without this feature we run the danger that increasing Adblock Plus usage will make small websites unsustainable. Why is this feature enabled by default? Because that's unfortunately the only way to reach the goals outlined above. If we ask users to enable this feature then most of them won't do it — simply because they never change any settings unless absolutely necessary. However, advertisers will only be interested in switching to better ways of advertising if the majority of Adblock Plus users has this feature enabled. But I hate all ads! No problem, you can disable this feature at any time. Click the Adblock Plus icon and choose "Filter Preferences" from the menu. Uncheck "Allow non-intrusive advertising" and you are done. BC -- What religion were Adam and Eve? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org