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vm writes with word of a new project from the creators of AdBlock for Chrome, the popular that blocks advertisements from showing up on web pages. The new tool in development, AdBlock Freedom, expands the ad-free experience to television, , and billboards. 'Here's how it works: when powered off, AdBlock Freedom functions as sunglasses. Slide a discreet switch on the frame, and AdBlock Freedom begins scanning your for objects that it recognizes as ads. Any detected ad gets a "smudge" overlay to blend it into its surroundings.' You can sign up now ."
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To all complainers: why not counter-troll? (Score:2)
The editors most likely read comments, so why not counter-troll instead of feeding them? I'll start:
There is no way this system would work. I can see large-scale disasters caused by smudges being erroneously generated. No to mention that our current market is run by advertisements. Don't you think that of all ads were blocked, IP would be worthless? Then the US would slowly get poorer as our lack of foresight is clouded by individual gain. This kind of behaviour has to stop.
(note to all wise-asses, yes I kn
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Time to cover my car in advertising bumper stickers and effectively make it invisible!
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April First Post! There, now i never have to do this again.
You make a very convincing argument, and your self-fulfillment has enabled others to follow in your footsteps. And for this, I thank you.
Epic Fail (Score:2)
You are both too late - the day is over, and anyway it is only funny in the morning.
Feh. (Score:3)
Just employ your Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses and set for protection from Advertising. Works great.
not too far from reality (Score:3)
We already have Word Lens [slashdot.org], and wearable eyeglass-style displays. I have a friend who wants to try to explore the US using nothing but a compass and a sextant, but with the ubiquity of direction signs you don't actually need navigation equipment. He's hoping he can get Word Lens running on a wearable display so he can scramble all the street signs and have a whole new country to explore.
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I have a friend who wants to try to explore the US using nothing but a compass and a sextant,
What kind of a tent?
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I have a friend who wants to try to explore the US using nothing but a compass and a sextant,
What kind of a tent?
It's a 'tant' which is real close to a 'taint' (you know: tain't the one, tain't the other). If it doesn't make you tense, we can call it the same, for all intents.
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Nobody has fun with Slashdot April Fools bullshit. April Fools is the lowest form of humor and Slashdot's take on it has consistently been the lowest form of *that* lowest form of humor, for . . . what . . . fourteen years, now? Do the comments on these idiotic failing attempts not make it clear that the majority of the Slashdot community simply writes the site off for the whole day?
And if YOU personally find this idiocy "fun", then you need to logout and go back to your Jeff Foxworthy tapes so you can laug
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HumourLESS?! Slashdot's April fools are the equivalent of children's TV slapstick. And you're saying you find that funny?!
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Et Tu?
Sticks and stones :)
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It was just that schools like to limit the 'damage' to the morning.
At one time the year ended on March 31st. So when it first came in, people were sent on fool's errands on the 'first day' of the New Year. So people who had not accepted, or remembered, that April 1st was not the first day of the year were made fun of. Hence April Fool's jokes apply to the whole day.
There is a problem on the Internet, I got told off, because I had published an April
Perfect for the expressway (Score:2)
Great! I hate looking at all those snarky bumper stickers on cars and advertisements on container trucks while commuting to and from work.
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Great! I hate looking at all those snarky bumper stickers on cars and advertisements on container trucks while commuting to and from work.
The downside is they occasionally block out everything else, too.
This is a joke, but I've been doing it for real (Score:2)
I've been blocking ads external to the browser and independent of it for many years: they're called local HTTP filtering proxies. Proxomitron and privoxy are the two most well known.
I confess, though, that most of my ad- and element-blocking is now done with WYSIWYG and GUI goodness via the browser extensions AdBlock Plus and AdBlock Plus Element Hiding Helper; the latter duplicates - in seconds - most of the custom filters I once had to laboriously craft in Proxomitron. (Other people swear by the Remove
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Block ads in complete-saved Web pages? Sure it does, unless you configure it to ignore anything from local files.
Give users {control/money/respect/pants} (Score:2)
Advertisements that make sound without you clicking to activate it, pop-unders, and ads that move around the screen or animate enough to give regular people seizures are the kind of ads that should be blocked, not stationary ones like you see on legit sites. It takes away what's free and degrades the quality over time due to the cost of maintaining the site, staff, and others. It's no wonder that a lot of sites now have premium services because too many people block ads.
When sites violate their side of the social contract, people no longer respect their own side of the social contract. The first pop-up started the war, every "innovation" in advertising just reinforces the hatred.
There's an add-on-for-add-ons called, I think, HotPlug. It's a bit of code that developers can hide in their browser extensions that replace website ads with user-side cached ads. With the extensions' developers and HotPlug splitting revenue 50/50. The user has no control over HotPlug (other than m
Re:Give users {control/money/respect/pants} (Score:4, Informative)
I've got a better idea:
Give me an adblocker that stifles ads with sound, pop-ups, pop-unders, animation (although I will accept it on mouse-over), changing size, and other abusive fucktardery, but allows silent, static, on-page ads to appear unimpeded; furthermore, have it automatically generate a message to the webmaster informing them that their abusive and needlessly irritating ad has been blocked, and that so long as they continue to run ads which unreasonably interfere with my ability to use their site, I will continue to deny them ad-revenues.
I'll use it, and I'll be glad for the option of rewarding good behavior (through allowing reasonable ads to generate revenue) and punishing bad behavior (by causing obnoxious ads to waste bandwidth and potentially DDoS mail servers).
I don't have any problem with a site running banner ads as a revenue stream, and I am perfectly happy to just let them display on the page... but intentionally doing extra shit just to annoy me is crossing the line.
What would be left? (Score:1)
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Peril Sensitive Sunglasses (Score:2)
Last one (Score:2)