Yakoob on 22/9/2011 at 04:57
So I am currently in India and if any of you know, most plans have a monthly caps, turning your bandwidth into a resource more precious than oil. And what sucks up more bandwidth than those goddam flash embedded-movie ads that load up a few megs of a movie whether you want to see them or not?
I know there's some good plugins for Chrome/Friefox that block ads, but not sure which to pick - can TTLG recommend me the best ones out there for both browsers? Chrome is my current main one but I can switch back to FF if it has better ad blocking features.
(also if anyone can tell me how to disable Skype auto-update notifications before I strangle it. And no, its not anywhere in the options)
Ladron De La Noche on 22/9/2011 at 06:58
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http://www.fanboy.co.nz/index.html) Fanboy Adblock, just copy/move the ini file to the location specified. I've used it with Opera and SRware Iron which is Chrome minus certain features, ads never appear. Add the list to the FF Adblock extension. Hope it helps. :)
Sulphur on 22/9/2011 at 06:58
Welcome to the sunny side of the planet! Using the mobile broadband plans, I take it? Yeah, they're almost universally terrible.
And all I use is Flashblock for Firefox. Works as advertised, haven't really needed a reason to look for anything else.
Azaran on 22/9/2011 at 07:49
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http://adblockplus.org/en/) Adblock plus is definitely my saviour
It blocks everything: interstitial video ads, banners, everything, and it can tell what's an ad from what's not. It's the only one I've ever used
Matthew on 22/9/2011 at 09:09
Yeah, I use a combination of Adblock Plus and (
http://noscript.net/) NoScript.
Ostriig on 22/9/2011 at 16:29
Another Adblock Plus user here, and I'm happy with it.
lost_soul on 23/9/2011 at 04:27
Yet another Adblock Plus user here, and I love it. Whether I'm in Linux or Windows, it just does what I expect it to do without constantly throwing questions at me or prompting to install updates.
Back when I used Windows and IE (shudder), I used an ad-blocker called the Proximitron. It was pretty good as well, but I heard the author died and I don't know if it is being updated anymore. Sad really.
Yakoob on 24/9/2011 at 06:02
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Welcome to the sunny side of the planet! Using the mobile broadband plans, I take it? Yeah, they're almost universally terrible.
And all I use is Flashblock for Firefox. Works as advertised, haven't really needed a reason to look for anything else.
Haha thanks! I've travelled quite a bit before, but this place is certainely something else! Enjoying my visit so far :D
And yep, just got a vodaphone mobile net. Unlimited bandwidth for a month on G2 for 500Rs? Hells yea. It is a bit slow, but for browsing ttlg / checking email / doing my job it's sufficient, and waaay cheaper than G3 plans (which also have insanely small data caps - 10 GB? I can burn through that in 4 days!) Hence why I am using ad and flashblocks to save up bandwidth.
So I got this stuff set up on FF, but any recommendations for Chrome? Over the past few weeks I've been using both and slowly converting to the latter - it boots way faster, has nicer dev tools (I do web design) and different tabs = different processes means I can get past Flash constant crashes without losing all my tabs.
