Re: Blocking Gmail ads
2008/5/14 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@gmail.com>:
> I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm
> browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks
> like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can
> detect when you're using Adblock and serves you ads in <tables>
> instead, making them harder to block.
>
> Can anyone suggest a fix? I only use Gmail for mailing lists nowadays,
> and have moved my personal email to a server in an undisclosed
> location in a remote island... ;-)
>
> I'd be happy with a solution that either blocks all Gmail ads or a
> better method to browse the 14 mailing lists I'm currently subscribed
> to, many of them high-volume. I'm beginning to miss Usenet.
>
I've started using adblock plus in Firefox as a particular blog that I
enjoy reading has popup ads on almost every word of the articles. I've
found that I now _miss_ the ads in gmail, as they are almost always
relevant to what I'm reading.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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