Comments on: Top Ten Firefox Addons to Annoy Advertisers

By: deman9

deman9 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:31:03 +0000

I totally agree with the above list of options. especially with Adblock Plus,
would feel if you use it. but sorry for the advertisers with the Adblock Plus

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:52:52 +0000

Flashblock sounds like it’s worth a look, David, thanks for the pointer

By: David from Dig-n-Share

David from Dig-n-Share — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:02:24 +0000

I use Flashblock to avoid ads, the flash ones anyway (and there are tons of them about these days

http://flashblock.mozdev.org

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:33:25 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions noodles…

By: noodles

noodles — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:44:33 +0000

Don’t forget:

Stylish
Easy Element Hiding (AdBlock Plus addon)
Platypus
Remove It Permanently

If you’re going to use IEtab then you MUST install IE7pro for IE (it has the best in-browser ad-blocking)

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:11:44 +0000

It seems that since I posted this Top Ten, some sites have been blocking Firefox users per se, because they believe it’s not worth serving the page if they aren’t going to make any money out of the reader! Come on! How short-sighted is that.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sat, 12 May 2007 06:51:05 +0000

Blackout, yes IEtab is an excellent addon and means most of my time is spent within Firefox, but testing sites and using some proprietary web software requires me to open a standalone instance of IE, unfortunately. I have tried these apps in IEtab, but they simply don’t get on. Horses for courses and all that.

By: Blackout

Blackout — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:13:40 +0000

You never have to leave FireFox if you have IETab http://ietab.mozdev.org/

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:33:36 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts Zach, I totally agree, which is why I replicated it here and added my own thoughts. Several of these addons everyday users can do without, but some of them are essential regardless of what ComputerWorld has to say about them

By: zach

zach — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:26:19 +0000

I thought that Computerworld list was so absolutely LAME. IDG publishes some pretty good stuff the whole, but sometimes they write a real bomb like this one. Good times.