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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

No Ads Browsing Experience

I watch Youtube videos a lot. And trust me when I say some advertisements are annoying. I don't mind those that you can skip but there are some advertisements that you cannot skip. It plays the whole 1 minute duration and that sucks. I don't mind watching them in small doses because I know it they pay for Google's bandwidth but forcing a 1 minute on your viewer? If they want more viewerships, make sure your advertisements are funny.

Thus, I present you... Adblock (norm or Plus, they're basically both the same). Available on both Chrome and Firefox, it picks up a bunch of advertisement lists and then just disables them.

I really don't mind a site with a lot of advertisement. I do mind, however when they block my view and force you to watch them for the next 1 minute. I don't mind them partially blocking my view while I do my stuff. Seriously guys, you want to drive down 5th avenue and flogged down by a salesman wanting to sell you some car wash.

And... I just found out that it worked for Android phones as well, as long you have it non-rooted rooted.

Ed: Sorry, I misread the Android stuff. Apparently you need to root it to make it easy for Adblock to run.

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