Browsing the web without ads
Amusingly, I didn’t use an ad blocker until a few months ago. Now, I enjoy viewing sites without half a million ads cluttering up my screen.
Ad blockers like ABP (Ad Block Plus) scan web pages for ads, and remove them. As simple as they are, ad blockers are incredible.
I installed ABP when I was trying to print an article from a coding website. There were so many ads on their main and print views of the article that printing it would have barely been worth the effort. I remembered that a friend of mine had talked about ABP, so I looked it up and installed it. After enabling it and returning to the website, the ads were gone, and I could actually print the article.
ABP also lets you block new ads that it doesn’t already detect with a few simple clicks. Some websites use JavaScript to display ads, and if ABP can’t block them, NoScript can.
Web masters should realize that intrusive ads will just cause more and more people to start using ad blockers, and start being reasonable.
