http://www.adblock.org Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:49:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.adblock.org/2006/03/ad-review-screen-peel/ 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 ... http://www.adblock.org/2006/03/remove-our-ads/ 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? The webmaster perspective: I offer a service. I don't sell a ... http://www.adblock.org/2006/02/is-ad-blocking-ethical/ 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 ... http://www.adblock.org/2006/02/adblock-plus-and-filtersetg/ 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 ... http://www.adblock.org/2006/02/ad-blocking-with-safari-in-os-x/ 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 viagra useful and that we've resolved ... http://www.adblock.org/2006/02/were-back-and-redesigned/ 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.... Discount Phentermine Blue Phentermine Ranking Drug ... http://www.adblock.org/2006/01/advertising-hall-of-shame-notable-mention/ 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 ... http://www.adblock.org/2006/01/hall-of-shame-lower-my-bills/ According to the Internet Advertising Bureau, the following is the standard Internet Advertising sizes. It is very likely that NIS blocks all of these ad sizes (and probably more). It's a good idea to avoid these graphic sizes in your website design. Also, at least for now, you can ... http://www.adblock.org/2004/10/iab_standard_ad_sizes_blocked/ If you're concerned that you may have Adware on your computer, you're not alone. It has become a mainstream problem and concern for computer users that they may have adware software on their computers. Generally speaking, software programs exist that are used to detect and give the user ... http://www.adblock.org/2004/09/free_adware_remover/