{"id":8955,"date":"2009-05-15T07:25:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2009-05-15T07:47:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:47:42","slug":"never-watch-another-web-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8955","title":{"rendered":"Never Watch Another Web Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2218386\/\">Slate.com reports<\/a>: &quot;According to Mozilla&#8217;s stats, Adblock Plus is the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/browse\/type:1\/cat:all?sort=popular\" target=\"_blank\">most-downloaded add-on for Firefox<\/a>, attracting more than 700,000 new adherents a week. In all, it&#8217;s been downloaded almost 49 million times. The appeal isn&#8217;t hard to understand. The first time I loaded up Adblock, it was like shooting my browser up with Bandwidth Growth Hormone. The software gave a speed-boost to everything I did online. In order to catch your attention, many Web ads are stuffed with complex animation and sounds. Keeping all those <a href=\"http:\/\/adverlicio.us\/lowermybills_com_dancing_alien_300x250\" target=\"_blank\">aliens dancing<\/a> eats up a lot of your computer&#8217;s resources, which is one of the reasons your machine&#8217;s performance plummets if you open many pages that are stuffed with ads. Ad-blocking software prevents your browser from connecting to well-known advertising servers. This lets you load pages faster and devote more of your machine&#8217;s processing power to important stuff, like playing Hulu videos.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Luke says: I just installed this in Firefox. Then I forgot about it. Ten minutes later, I was checking out lukeford.net and I panicked. All the ads were gone. I then looked at my site in another browser and all the ads were back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate.com reports: &quot;According to Mozilla&#8217;s stats, Adblock Plus is the most-downloaded add-on for Firefox, attracting more than 700,000 new adherents a week. In all, it&#8217;s been downloaded almost 49 million times. The appeal isn&#8217;t hard to understand. The first time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[17629,17630,17633,17634,17631,17632],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-ad-blocking-software","tag-adblock","tag-plummets","tag-processing-power","tag-speed-boost","tag-web-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}