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Just open any Polish major website without adblock to understand why. +10 trackers, +20 ads per page, +6 social buttons per post.

by akerro 10y ago

mamon 10y ago
I agree, Polish websites are so cluttered with advertisments, some of them being pop-ups hiding the whole main page of initial load. Completly unusable without ad-blocker. BTW. The best ad-blocker I found so far is just uninstalling Flash plugin from your browser. HTML 5 is not so popular yet, so that helps a lot.
- klibertp 10y ago
  In Chrome you can make it so that Flash is not loaded by default, but you can right-click on the unloaded Flash applet and make it load and run. I think it's somewhere in the settings.
  - majewsky 10y ago
    On Firefox, Flashblock does the same IIRC.
- pipio21 10y ago
  You can disable it(flash, java). When you are interested you activate it, just for one time. That is what I do.
  - distances 10y ago
    Just as a random data point, I haven't had Flash for some years now and I think I haven't been missing anything. YouTube and other major video sites serve HTML5 video just fine.
- imtringued 10y ago
  Firefox's flash version is no longer up to date and vSphere needs a newer one so I didn't even bother with it. I'm using chromium exclusively as a fallback for vSphere.
rdslw 10y ago
It's everywhere (Poles are just smart). THere is much more time & bandwidth on major content sites spend purely for ads than on content On slate: 60% ads on business insider: 75% on BBC: 65% Source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-of-mobile-ads.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-... On mobile, i simply use firefox. It's the only browser on android which easily allows me to install adblock (ublock origin exactly). highly recommended.
- akerro 10y ago
  On mobile I installed AdAway.
ajuc 10y ago
Regional newspaper sites are the worst. Every time I go there I feel dirty.

Just open any Polish major website without adblock to understand why. +10 trackers, +20 ads per page, +6 social buttons per post.

by akerro 10y ago

Just open any Polish major website without adblock to understand why. +10 trackers, +20 ads per page, +6 social buttons per post.

mamon 10y ago

I agree, Polish websites are so cluttered with advertisments, some of them being pop-ups hiding the whole main page of initial load. Completly unusable without ad-blocker. BTW. The best ad-blocker I found so far is just uninstalling Flash plugin from your browser. HTML 5 is not so popular yet, so that helps a lot.

klibertp 10y ago
In Chrome you can make it so that Flash is not loaded by default, but you can right-click on the unloaded Flash applet and make it load and run. I think it's somewhere in the settings.
- majewsky 10y ago
  On Firefox, Flashblock does the same IIRC.
pipio21 10y ago
You can disable it(flash, java). When you are interested you activate it, just for one time. That is what I do.
- distances 10y ago
  Just as a random data point, I haven't had Flash for some years now and I think I haven't been missing anything. YouTube and other major video sites serve HTML5 video just fine.
imtringued 10y ago
Firefox's flash version is no longer up to date and vSphere needs a newer one so I didn't even bother with it. I'm using chromium exclusively as a fallback for vSphere.

rdslw 10y ago

It's everywhere (Poles are just smart). THere is much more time & bandwidth on major content sites spend purely for ads than on content On slate: 60% ads on business insider: 75% on BBC: 65% Source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-of-mobile-ads.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-... On mobile, i simply use firefox. It's the only browser on android which easily allows me to install adblock (ublock origin exactly). highly recommended.

akerro 10y ago
On mobile I installed AdAway.

ajuc 10y ago

Regional newspaper sites are the worst. Every time I go there I feel dirty.