Advertisements are how websites make money. Must like network TV, clicks are counted and money is paid. I’m not against this business model - it works and keeps content available to everyone.
What I DO NOT like are the advertisements that sonically announce to me that I won a free iPhone or iPod or laptop or whatever the hot good of the day is. It’s even worse when 2 of them show up on one site at the same time and they’re out of sync in their announcement. These ads are not only annoying, they are intrusive. I don’t think I’m alone in this dislike of these disruptive blubbering blurbs. They rank up there with the “pop-under” advertisement.
Being that I’m a self-described OS Agnostic, I often have to deal with different browsers on different computer platforms. It’s not always easy to have Firefox available to you for your internet browsing needs. Recently, I was using an Apple with Safari installed and I had to suffer through pop-under and “you won a free iPhone” ads that were just distracting. That’s when I stumbled on “Safari AdBlock.”
http://safariadblock.sourceforge.net/
So, I’ve installed and we’ll see how it goes. I’ll provide updates as I test it out.
