[Opera 8] Adblock Extension

[bonobozoot]

You're giving money to Neowin. Boobless is not.

Am I really the only person who sees what people like Boobless do as stealing?

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It's upto each person to stop or show ads on their computer. Some do and some dont. There's not much the mods can do about it. For instance, I block ads on almost all other sites I go to but I dont do it for Neowin. I like to see the occasional ads sometimes after Admuncher has removed most of them.

[McLuke]

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poor google...

It doesn't know itself will be blocked ;)

[Jessehk]

Nice, but every time I try to set-up something like this, I just fail. I use proxomitrion to block ads and manipulate websites to my will. Mwahahaha ;)

[Chlorpromazine]

You're giving money to Neowin. Boobless is not.

Am I really the only person who sees what people like Boobless do as stealing?

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They are not stealing a thing.

This is my computer, right? So I can decide what to see or not. I don't even give a look to those banners, so these extensions are pretty useless to me, but if anybody feels them as distracting, well... they can hide them and surf in happyness.

[yisman]

Why block Google ads? Or any of Neowin's ads for that matter.

They help support this free service which you are abusing, and they take next to no bandwidth.

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:yes:

[yisman]

You're giving money to Neowin. Boobless is not.

Am I really the only person who sees what people like Boobless do as stealing?

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No, I agree, and have posted to that effect in some Adblock topics in BPN.

[yisman]

They are not stealing a thing.

This is my computer, right? So I can decide what to see or not. I don't even give a look to those banners, so these extensions are pretty useless to me, but if anybody feels them as distracting, well... they can hide them and surf in happyness.

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There is really no point in arguing this, because I've said this countless times. Yes, it is your computer. But if no one paid to put up a website, you wouldn't be able to view anything. Using the Internet costs you money, but it also costs money for the people who put content up on the web. Are you paying for their bandwidth? Didn't think so.

The truth is, this doesn't really belong in this topic, but Chode brought it up, so I decided to comment.

[Chlorpromazine]

There is really no point in arguing this, because I've said this countless times. Yes, it is your computer. But if no one paid to put up a website, you wouldn't be able to view anything. Using the Internet costs you money, but it also costs money for the people who put content up on the web. Are you paying for their bandwidth? Didn't think so. [...]

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I know. I pay to connect to my ISP, and that's all. :sleep:

This was said countless times, too, but is a sad reality: if a website can't keep itself up without tons of ad, then it's not a website I'd care of. :no:

I pay for my bandwith. They pay to expose contents. Nobody is giving us charity. :no:

[caerma]

Thanks, just what i was looking for...

[temple_treefrog]

I'll download and use this when the installation becomes simple and easy to install.

[Toxicfume Veteran]

I don't see the problem with people going out of their way to block ads, it only proves that they would never click them anyways. If they never click on them then what is the point of downloading them? If you download the ads and never click them you cost the advertisers more money to pay for the bandwidth charges. Advertisers having to spend more money on hosting results in less revenue going toward the sites which place the advertisements.

Huh..?

Neowin does get revenue with just having the ads being displayed, so I don't know where you got your info from.

Eitherways, how nice of some of you to block our ads :rolleyes: Running a site like neowin takes a LOT of resources, it's not just some server at home trying to make some moolah. It's your computer, but it's just greedy to be using services of websites that provide content only by volunteering people at no cost. Money must be growing on trees for you people.

[edgefield]

FUD. Google pays per click not per view.

block away

[vcv]

FUD. Google pays per click not per view.

block away

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They pay for both actually.

I do hope you get banned for telling people top block the ads.

[edgefield]

the mods dont like me... so i probebly will.

[abc@home]

Back to topic, I think that this extension is far too limited in functionality to be called "AdBlock" for opera.

AdBlock is a content filter, meaning that it can block the download of any file/image/flash linked in a page, insteading of downloading and hiding them.

And there are other bells & whistles in AdBlock to make it easier to use.

[boobless]

AdBlock is a content filter, meaning that it can block the download of any file/image/flash linked in a page, insteading of downloading and hiding them.

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This does the very same thing. After blocking the "file/image/flash linked in a page", clear your cache and refresh, it won't even make the connection to download the file.

[Raum]

There is really no point in arguing this, because I've said this countless times. Yes, it is your computer. But if no one paid to put up a website, you wouldn't be able to view anything. Using the Internet costs you money, but it also costs money for the people who put content up on the web. Are you paying for their bandwidth? Didn't think so.

The truth is, this doesn't really belong in this topic, but Chode brought it up, so I decided to comment.

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No, I'm not paying their bandwidth, and I have no intentions of doing so. I don't see why I should. This actual site has given me quite little, all I come here for is provided by the users. Skins, software help and the seldom threads of discussion.

Either way, it's THEIR bill, not MINE. I have absolutely NO obligation, AT ALL, to pay a dime for Neowin, regardless of whether you think I'm wrong, greedy, lame or whatnot. The fact remains there is 0 obligation for users to pay for their stay at Neowin. If Neowin needs money that badly, they can start banning users who block ads or require a subscription fee for users to post. Until then, people should stfu and stop bitching IMO. But we're all entitled to our views. :)

[abc@home]

This does the very same thing. After blocking the "file/image/flash linked in a page", clear your cache and refresh, it won't even make the connection to download the file.

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Yes, it does. Thanks for correction! :)

Some suggestions:

- support for wildcards (ads change quite often);

- an interface for modifying rules (not just remove);

- the installation has to be simplier (too complicated for new opera users);

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

No, I'm not paying their bandwidth, and I have no intentions of doing so.  I don't see why I should.  This actual site has given me quite little, all I come here for is provided by the users.  Skins, software help and the seldom threads of discussion.

Either way, it's THEIR bill, not MINE.  I have absolutely NO obligation, AT ALL, to pay a dime for Neowin, regardless of whether you think I'm wrong, greedy, lame or whatnot.  The fact remains there is 0 obligation for users to pay for their stay at Neowin.  If Neowin needs money that badly, they can start banning users who block ads or require a subscription fee for users to post.  Until then, people should stfu and stop bitching IMO.  But we're all entitled to our views.  :)

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you also have the right to leave and not post any other single lines too

yup that's your choice. Some day you will work, have wife or husband, children and you will know what are bills. I mean real bills. Neowin is a real bills for neowin admins

As I use neowin like any other person here, I subscribed and also I dont block ads from neowin with the modified version of AdBlock for Firefox.

why? Because I want neowin to survive

that's all

[abc@home]

Yes, it does. Thanks for correction! :)

Some suggestions:

- support for wildcards (ads change quite often);

- an interface for modifying rules (not just remove);

- the installation has to be simplier (too complicated for new opera users);

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Also the extension has to clean blank space better. eg also remove the empty div, td, tr, table, span left after removing the image or link.

[jp10558]

Also the extension has to clean blank space better. eg also remove the empty div, td, tr, table, span left after removing the image or link.

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Personally I use proxomitron, so I don't have to deal with any of this, but for people who might want an even more adblock like experiance, they should check out the beta AdMuncher that adds right click support for all major browsers to block ads. Granted it's pay ware, but I do pay for software I like/use a lot.

[celestialspring]

admuncher does not do that for flash

[sn00pie]

Sorry guys, first day using Opera and I'm having trouble installing AdBlock, any help? :)