Reduce Ads with Firefox
Posted by Kaya Kupferschmidt • Thursday, September 15. 2005 • Category: General
Yesterday while I was browsing through the internet, it finally happened after a visit to Spiegel Online, the online version of a popular German news magazine: I couldn't stand the advertising banners any more, they were simply eating too much space on the screen and downgraded the experience by a massive amount.
So I googled arount and in some seconds, I found two very useful tools for Firefox: The Adblock Project which is a simple but powerful adblocker for the Firefox browser and the Adblock Filterset.G Updater, which fetches the newest filterset from the internet.
After installing these two tools (which are installed on a per-user basis), most of the disturbing ads disappeared from the webpages - and pages load much faster, (although I already have a 6 MBit connection, but it seems that many ad-servers simply can't provide their unwanted content fast enough).
So I googled arount and in some seconds, I found two very useful tools for Firefox: The Adblock Project which is a simple but powerful adblocker for the Firefox browser and the Adblock Filterset.G Updater, which fetches the newest filterset from the internet.
After installing these two tools (which are installed on a per-user basis), most of the disturbing ads disappeared from the webpages - and pages load much faster, (although I already have a 6 MBit connection, but it seems that many ad-servers simply can't provide their unwanted content fast enough).
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