RE: ABP (AdblockPlus) sucks and I will prove it...
August 22, 2014 at 9:48 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2014 at 9:49 pm by Aractus.)
Okay now I've configured FF it's much better. There is still a lot of annoyance with FF though - some extensions like avast do not allow you to remove it (you can only disable it), and there's no option anywhere to remove installed plugins!
My point is that ABP is a shitty plugin it should be called AB- (minus) because all it is is a product that is significantly worse than AdBlock - its main competing extension.
Google has gone completely greedy and excessive on their ads. Hell the other day they wanted to serve me 17 ads in a Youtube video...
![[Image: TvTQM4w.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2FTvTQM4w.png)
But back to their search engine, here's an example of the excess:
![[Image: kL1H3Lb.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2FkL1H3Lb.png)
Google does this all the time - they duplicate the first result as an ad, and display it above the search result. This offers absolutely no benefit to the consumer. It offers a slight benefit to the advertisee, assuming they're happy to pay for people who were going to click on the first search result anyway. But most importantly it's no good for competitors.
What would be good for the consumer is if that ad was a competitor's ad. You know like Woolies...
![[Image: 3HLhvPe.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2F3HLhvPe.png)
But they don't give a shit about what's best for their customers, they'd rather look at how to generate the most clicks onto adsense. Advertisers are willing to pay a premium for better quality click-through traffic, you know.
My point is that ABP is a shitty plugin it should be called AB- (minus) because all it is is a product that is significantly worse than AdBlock - its main competing extension.
Google has gone completely greedy and excessive on their ads. Hell the other day they wanted to serve me 17 ads in a Youtube video...
But back to their search engine, here's an example of the excess:
Google does this all the time - they duplicate the first result as an ad, and display it above the search result. This offers absolutely no benefit to the consumer. It offers a slight benefit to the advertisee, assuming they're happy to pay for people who were going to click on the first search result anyway. But most importantly it's no good for competitors.
What would be good for the consumer is if that ad was a competitor's ad. You know like Woolies...
But they don't give a shit about what's best for their customers, they'd rather look at how to generate the most clicks onto adsense. Advertisers are willing to pay a premium for better quality click-through traffic, you know.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
