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1 posted on 11/22/2014 5:40:21 AM PST by Dallas59
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2 posted on 11/22/2014 5:42:21 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Dallas59

Doesn’t look like too many partners at this point.

https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

Great idea, but I would want the major sites I go to blocked and none are listed.


3 posted on 11/22/2014 5:44:08 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: Dallas59

Interesting. $3.00 and no more adds.


4 posted on 11/22/2014 5:45:08 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Dallas59

I don’t mind the kinds of ads they have on the actual search engine page, i.e. plain text ads. But the pop-up / floating ads on sites like Breitbart.com have gotten so obnoxious that it really makes it hard to read the web site content - particularly on a lower power platform like an iPad. I use AdBlock on my PCs, but that’s not an option for the iPad.


5 posted on 11/22/2014 5:49:48 AM PST by Scutter
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To: Dallas59

What google needs to do is ...

STOP REQUIRING a SSL connection just to use their google maps site.

Try it and see if you can get to http://maps.google.com without it migrating to HTTPS ??

I don’t want a browsing experience with SSL. Maps are public information and have no reason to be behind an SSL wall. I have my SSL turned off since I still use XP and FR is fine as well as hundreds of other sites.

Thank you google for trying to CONTROL me.


6 posted on 11/22/2014 5:50:46 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Dallas59

Useful only if the amount of data transferred is reduced. My main beef isn’t the ads themselves, it’s the amount of bandwidth they take up, which slows down the loading of the page overall.

The absolute WORST are the pages that have 5 or 10 animated ads, one of which also auto-plays its audio track. Those sometimes scare the bejeebers outta me when I’m having an insomniac episode.


7 posted on 11/22/2014 6:00:50 AM PST by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
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To: Dallas59

Sites with too many ads aren’t worth paying to view.

It is filler for lack of content and too much overhead.

And the sites with tons of ads are always poorly coded (lots of unnecessary Flash and Javascript), sucks up TONS of memory, crash browsers, and sometimes whole computers. Not to mention that the ads are for things that only trailer trash (or your average LIV) would ever look at and think it looks relevant to their lives.

Sadly many conservative news sites *Blaze* are like this. FR is the only one that doesn’t bombard us with that crap.


10 posted on 11/22/2014 6:15:46 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Dallas59

ad blocker is free....

google is sticking ads everywhere these days.


11 posted on 11/22/2014 6:22:49 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Dallas59

I never notice the ads anyway; I’m sure the vast majority of people ignore them and would never dream of buying from them.


12 posted on 11/22/2014 6:26:55 AM PST by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: Dallas59

Wish there was something like this for my landline phone.

Oh, wait... there is, the DNC list. (side note: is the creation of that a subliminal ad for the ‘Rat party?)


13 posted on 11/22/2014 6:33:44 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Dallas59

Install an ad blocker ... Speeds up web browsing and ditches the ads


17 posted on 11/22/2014 7:54:26 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Dallas59

why would I see pixelated patterns?


20 posted on 11/22/2014 10:01:36 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Dallas59
https://www.ghostery.com/en/

Works great on Firefox/Pale Moon, and I think they have a version for IE now too.
23 posted on 11/22/2014 10:45:51 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Dallas59

Just like cable TV! Pay for the cable, and no ads!

/sarcasm


24 posted on 11/22/2014 11:19:53 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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