{"id":784,"date":"2009-08-17T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2009-08-17T07:52:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:52:21","slug":"ad-blocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/784\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Blocker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/personal.html\">Firefox<\/a> lately instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\">Safari<\/a>. Both are great browsers. Safari seems to be a bit faster (but it&#8217;s honestly hard to tell on an 8-core processor). Firefox looks about the same, but is very customizable\/extendable. There are tons of extensions, addons, and themes you can download for free to change the way things work.<\/p>\n<p>Based on our last post about the evils of TV and advertising, you can tell I&#8217;m passionately against advertising. Yesterday I discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1865\">Ad Blocker Plus<\/a>, which blocks advertisements on most sites you go to. It has worked flawlessly so far, and if ads bug you as much as they bug me, you&#8217;ll find it invaluable. Here is a little tutorial on how to set it up:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oNvb2SjVjjI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oNvb2SjVjjI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I realize that many of you probably already knew about this kind of thing, but I was excited about it! Here&#8217;s a screenshot of accuweather.com with no ads (no top and no Google ads at the bottom):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-785\" title=\"noads\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/noads.jpg\" alt=\"noads\" width=\"585\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/noads.jpg 991w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/noads-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s an interesting movie about how the addon is causing commotion throughout the online world:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/46c3gWNGRQw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/46c3gWNGRQw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Firefox lately instead of Safari. Both are great browsers. Safari seems to be a bit faster (but it&#8217;s honestly hard to tell on an 8-core processor). Firefox looks about the same, but is very customizable\/extendable. There are tons of extensions, addons, and themes you can download for free to change the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}