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Agreed. I don't see why people think an advertising company would want to make it easy to block ads in their browser.

gyardley 17y ago
Google developer Peter Kasting's comment on this is here: http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/#comment-17007 http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/... That comment points to a Chromium tracking bug, here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16932 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16932 It looks like while a developer at Google was working on this project, that developer left Google in October and there's been no replacement. While this doesn't suggest the feature is the highest priority for Google, it also doesn't suggest Google is deliberately intending to prevent JavaScript or advertising blocking. Sometimes things that didn't get done just didn't get done.
- pavs 17y ago
  To be fair, if they wanted to be hostile towards ads blocking extensions in general they would have made it really hard or impossible to develop them in the first place; or wouldn't even allow them to be hosted on Google extensions website. To my last count they currently have 5 ad blocking extensions on Google extensions gallery. One of the is the second most downloaded Chrome Extension. Generally speaking Google has done so much with Chrome browser in such a short time, I don't mind giving them the benefit of doubt that they didn't get around fixing or implementing the said bug/feature.
dc2k08 17y ago
There is an extension called adthwart available: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpk...
netcan 17y ago
I personally have adblock disabled on Google itself, I want those ads. I still block adsense though. On one hand, I'm blocking some of their potential impressions for their lower margin, add-on, commodity product. On the other hand I'm making supply of their higher margin main product more scarce, more valuable. I'm not sure th net effect is too worrying. Of course this is anecdote but maybe I'm not the only one.
- mahmud 17y ago
  You are willing to give money to Google but not the site-owners who produced the content you consume? I don't blame you though; great majority of the sites don't have monetizable content, no inventory for them.
  - netcan 17y ago
    I don't care about giving money to sites or to Google. I use Google ads (click on them) and they don't bother me when I don't use them. I don't use most other ads and often they bother me. Purely selfish. I use Google a lot & I know that I want the ads. For everything else, it's easiest to blanket opt out. Many sites (particularly Israeli news sites which I read sometimes) have ads that bother me a lot.

Google developer Peter Kasting's comment on this is here: http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/#comment-17007 http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/... That comment points to a Chromium tracking bug, here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16932 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16932 It looks like while a developer at Google was working on this project, that developer left Google in October and there's been no replacement. While this doesn't suggest the feature is the highest priority for Google, it also doesn't suggest Google is deliberately intending to prevent JavaScript or advertising blocking. Sometimes things that didn't get done just didn't get done.

pavs 17y ago
To be fair, if they wanted to be hostile towards ads blocking extensions in general they would have made it really hard or impossible to develop them in the first place; or wouldn't even allow them to be hosted on Google extensions website. To my last count they currently have 5 ad blocking extensions on Google extensions gallery. One of the is the second most downloaded Chrome Extension. Generally speaking Google has done so much with Chrome browser in such a short time, I don't mind giving them the benefit of doubt that they didn't get around fixing or implementing the said bug/feature.

dc2k08 17y ago

There is an extension called adthwart available: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpk...

netcan 17y ago

I personally have adblock disabled on Google itself, I want those ads. I still block adsense though. On one hand, I'm blocking some of their potential impressions for their lower margin, add-on, commodity product. On the other hand I'm making supply of their higher margin main product more scarce, more valuable. I'm not sure th net effect is too worrying. Of course this is anecdote but maybe I'm not the only one.

mahmud 17y ago
You are willing to give money to Google but not the site-owners who produced the content you consume? I don't blame you though; great majority of the sites don't have monetizable content, no inventory for them.
- netcan 17y ago
  I don't care about giving money to sites or to Google. I use Google ads (click on them) and they don't bother me when I don't use them. I don't use most other ads and often they bother me. Purely selfish. I use Google a lot & I know that I want the ads. For everything else, it's easiest to blanket opt out. Many sites (particularly Israeli news sites which I read sometimes) have ads that bother me a lot.