{"id":465,"date":"2007-09-05T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2007-09-05T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:00:27","slug":"you-gotta-have-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"You gotta have this!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re not using Firefox,<\/a> there’s yet another (in a long list) reason that you should be:  AdBlock Plus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New York Times has an interesting pro-and-con piece, but the bottom line is most effectively summed up by the plugin’s creator:<\/p>\n

“There is only one reliable way to make sure your ads aren’t blocked — make sure the users don’t want to block them,” he wrote. “Don’t forget about the users. Use ads in a way that doesn’t degrade their experience.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That means no flashing whack-a-mole banners, no large (especially animated) ads smack in the middle of newspaper stories, no goofy dancing mortgage guy, and the like.  Advertising is useful to a degree, but when it reaches the point of saturation and irritation, people will either abandon the medium or find a way around it.<\/p>\n

A few months ago when I ran for re-election, I did purchase a couple of online ads.  The local daily, however, had eliminated the ad space that I really wanted (tastefully off to the right side), and could instead only offer a larger ad that showed up in the middle of the page.  I specifically asked that the ad NOT run in the obituaries — this being offensive to me, even without friends or family listed therein — but of course, it showed up there anyway.  And I received complaints.<\/p>\n

AdBlock Plus does allow for customization, allowing the user to exempt certain sites.  Google ads, for example, are non-intrusive and often helpful, so I’ve exempted Google from ad blocking in my browser.<\/p>\n

Best of all, like all Mozilla products and add-ons, it’s free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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