Who Clicks on Ads?

by adblock on June 11, 2010

New blog adverb.org takes on advertising practices and has a great post asking the question, “Who clicks ads?”

There is no clicker-to-non-clicker formula. People who use iPads might not be obfuscating your Flash banners because of their cleverness. They may simply just not have access to the platform. Conversely, people who click the dancing leprechaun vomiting dollar signs may be the cleverest hipster in Haight-Ashbury.

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Advertising Hall of Shame Notable Mention

by adblock on March 18, 2006

I didn’t see it myself to capture, but this one gets a nod. Shmuly Tennenhaus at Revenews points out one of the most ridiculous ads I’ve seen in a long time. A “Press the Fart Button” ad on The Jerusalem Post. That’s rich.

See it here….

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Advertising Hall of Shame Nomination: Lower My Bills

March 15, 2006

The first nomination for the Adblock.org advertising hall of shame goes to Lower My Bills. It doesn’t take long to find one of their over-the-top ads with creative that has nothing to do with the subject and everything to do with catching your attention. This one was found on Yahoo Finance. There are many of [...]

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Ad Review: Screen Peel

March 14, 2006

I came across the “screen peel” effect, offered by Visual Steel, in real life here: Information Week. The ad presents itself as a peeled over corner of the web browser. It’s animated and the page corner moves and the content “behind” the exposed corner scrolls by. When you mouse over the corner, the whole screen [...]

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Remove Our Ads!

March 9, 2006

A few years ago, we published a simple adblock detection script. Our purpose for this was to catch the users who had Norton Internet Security installed and inform them that the software they have installed may be blocking content (both ads and non-ads) without their knowledge. A few years have passed, and it seems that [...]

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Is Ad Blocking Ethical?

February 22, 2006

Regardless of the actual topic of a post here on adblock.org, the comments typically devolve into a debate over the right to block ads. So, let’s take the subject head on, shall we? Is the blocking of ads unethical?

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Adblock Plus and FilterSet.G

February 17, 2006

A number of commenters here at Adblock.org have recommended that I take a look at Adblock Plus, a replacement to the long-time adblocking Firefox extension, Adblock. Many users of this Adblock extension recommend the use of the FilterSet.G blocking list. I took a look to see how it works and from a Website owner and [...]

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PithHelmet – Ad Blocking with Safari in OS X

February 4, 2006

A few years ago, I wrote a not-so-glowing review of PithHelmet, an ad blocking, privacy, web-page modification tool for Safari on OS X. Now that I’m getting back into the swing of things here, being a mac user, I thought it would be a good exercise to give it a go again.

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We’re back, and redesigned

February 3, 2006

After a lengthy hiatus, we’re getting adblock.org back on track. We’ve moved the site from an old custom design to a WordPress blog back-end. This will allow us to write more and better manage the spammy comments. We hope you find it useful and that we’ve resolved all old links to point to new ones. [...]

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IAB Standard Advertising Graphic Sizes

October 25, 2004

These are the standard internet advertising graphic sizes accoring to the Internet Advertising Bureau. Norton Internet Security will block these, so it’s a good idea to avoid these graphics sizes in your website design.

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