Interesting Links for 12-12-2011

[andrewducker]

• First Private Spaceship Flight to the ISS now has a date.
  (tags: space iss Spacex )
• Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad - oh for goodness sake.
  (tags: patents germany law europe apple iphone motorola )
• This Banana Alien Might Have Ascorbic Acid for Blood
  (tags: banana alien sculpture awesome )
• The Evolution of Fictional Characters
  (tags: Character Comics tv comic )
• If Tarot Cards Actually Predicted the Future
  (tags: funny tarot webcomic )
• D&D;: More accurate than you think
  (tags: roleplaying dnd reality )
• Problems with anti-Mormons and anti-Adulterers - will the demographics hurt the Republicans?
  (tags: republicans voting usa )
• 57% of people thought that David Cameron was right to use the veto, with 14% disagreeing and 29% don’t know.
  (tags: europe uk opinion )
• Alternative Engineering - the future of architecture!
  (tags: architecture Alternative funny satire )
• Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels
  (tags: spotify music business )
• AdBlock Plus to allow "acceptable" ads by default soon. I'm actually in favour of this.
  (tags: advertising adblock firefox )

Comments

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

Likewise. I used to have Adblock installed but with no sync list, only blocking ads that I specifically told it to. Any time anything flashed or moved, it got blocked, and certain static images that annoyed me I'd block, but I was happy with text ads and most static image ads. Certain hosting sites that hosted lots of animated images would get a blanket block, and obviously I have Flashblock so no flash gets to do anything unless I say so.

Net result: the ad-supported sites that I visit still get their ads, and occasionally I'd even click on some that were interesting; but the irritating flashy animating things died and stayed dead. It was great.

Then Adblock removed the workflow that made that easy to do. (They used to have an item on the right-click menu for any image saying "Adblock this image", but now that either doesn't exist or is far harder to use in that way.) So I've given up and moved to Chrome, and I still have Flashblock but I just put up with the occasional animated image. (If there's one that really irritates me, there's always the "Inspect element" -> DEL key option, to outright remove it from the HTML source.)