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Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in (nice blog post)

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Interesting article and blog essay on Adblock Plus, a FireFox plugin to remove ads from web pages.

Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in
Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it would be if it became widely popular. Right now, it sits like a coyote at the edge of the net, quietly eyeing all the businesses it would happily devour.

The plug-in, writes Noam Cohen in today's New York Times, has the potential to be an "extreme menace to the online-advertising business model. After an installation that takes but a minute or two, Adblock usually makes all commercial communication disappear. No flashing whack-a-mole banners. No Google ads based on the search terms you have entered. From that perspective, the program is an unwelcome arrival after years of worry that there might never be an online advertising business model to support the expense of creating entertainment programming or journalism, or sophisticated search engines, for that matter."

Adblock Plus: http://adblockplus.org/
NY Time Article: http://www.nytimes.c...chnology/03link.html
Blog Essay: http://www.roughtype.../adblock_plus_th.php

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