I don't run AdBlock Plus, but I do use FlashBlock, mainly to cut down on fan noise. I also have a few entries in my /etc/hosts ... 127.0.0.1 googleads.g.d

I don't run AdBlock Plus, but I do use FlashBlock, mainly to cut down on fan noise. I also have a few entries in my /etc/hosts ... 127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 ak.p.openx.net 127.0.0.1 tags.expo9.exponential.com 127.0.0.1 resources.infolinks.com 127.0.0.1 resources.intextscript.com 127.0.0.1 kona.kontera.com Google ads was simply responding too slowly. Too many pages were not rendering correctly or at all, pending a response from them. That's probably the fault of web authors not embedding the Google ads correctly. But not to worry. Now I just see error IFrames. As for the others, the damned double-underscore spam links were getting to be just too annoying while reading text — especially the ones that would react to mouseovers.