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Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive

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On 2014-04-22, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2014-04-22, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> http://bokardo.com/archives/paying-to-get-rid-of-pagination-on-slate/
>>
>> Interesting article about wrecking the user experience in order to
>>  sell ads. 
>
> Firefox + Adbock+, Ghostery & Flashblock. Adverts, what adverts?

NoScript on its own gets rid of a lot of ads and distinctly improves
the performance of many sites, particularly on older kit.

Since Adobe's recent mess up with certain Mac models* and Flash 13, I
am now running my main system Flash-free.  All the Youtube items I have
been interested in so far have successfully displayed using HTML5 (albeit
with a pause before playing starts).

* my system wasn't on the list of affected models, but the Flash 13
installation was taking an unreasonably long time to complete so I aborted
it.

I do have Flash installed in openSUSE under a VM and that works fine for
the odd relic - only one found that I really wanted to watch since I did
the switch last weekend.

Toodle pip Adobe.  You brought it on yourself.

-- 
Paul Sture

The final step of #heartbleed recovery is to call your mother, and advise
her to change her maiden name                                  -- @gojomo

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WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-22 18:13 +0000
  Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-22 19:12 +0000
    Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-23 20:31 +0200
  Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-22 20:38 +0000
  Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-22 15:30 -0700
    Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-23 08:40 +0000
    Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-23 13:49 +0000
      Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-24 20:09 +0000
    Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-24 17:36 +0000
      Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-24 16:10 -0700
  Re: WWWeakness: need to sell page views to survive "Elizabeth T. Knuth" <eknuth@csbsju.edu> - 2014-04-27 02:41 -0500

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