Whiting Out the Ads, but at What Cost?
September 3rd, 2007The New York Times conjures whitespace:
The larger importance of Adblock is its potential for 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.
That statement suggests to me that the Adblock Plus plug-in can block sponsored links on a Google search page. That I’d like to see. Has Noam Cohen tested this?
UPDATE: Nick Carr calls it the “nuclear plug-in.” Is that nuclear like Kim Jung Il’s fizzling ambitions?
UPDATE 2: Some are questioning the legality of this. I suspect that will go nowhere.
Posted in Office on Monday, September 3rd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
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September 6th, 2007 at 7:12 am
“That statement suggests to me that the Adblock Plus plug-in can block sponsored links on a Google search page. That I’d like to see.”
Just install both the EasyList & EasyElement subscriptions for Adblock Plus and see for yourself.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:31 am
I had EasyList in, and now have installed EasyElement. Voilà - no ads on Google.com (while searching for “mortgage” ;-).
I stand corrected, and wonder whether some of these add-ons will become standard fare in the Adblock Plus download.