[GATOR NAVY]

Thoughts? I use Adblock Plus and I don't feel a bit guilty. To me it's no different than leaving the room or muting the TV when commercials come on, not to mention I have bandwidth limitations. I don't want my rationed bandwidth wasted on animations and music I didn't ask for. I also use the Customize Google add-on so I don't see ads on Google either.

[Darth Hillary]

I’m an AdBlock addict.

[Big_Monkey]

No guilt here. Like the author, I was surprised how much more efficient FF3 became after I installed this add-on.

[steve86]

I just removed Adblock Plus because it turned out that Noscript was disabling almost all the annoying ads anyway, along with Flashblock. There’s very little difference in what I see now without Adblock. Just a few static ads I don’t mind.

[Richard Kimball]

I downloaded it and tried it out on Firefox (use both Safari and Firefox) and WOW. Ads have gotten progressively more annoying, with the talking and the ads that expand when you do mouseovers, along with others that actually cover part of the page text and prevent you from reading the article.

Blocking the ad pages also prevents them from getting info about your browsing habits. Another bonus.

I feel behind the curve, not having used this plug in before.

[Nathan Zachary]

As far as I'm concerned, adds should be little graphic blocks or lettering on the side of the page that load like text and doesn't eat up bandwidth.

All that other junk doesn't have a right to MY bandwidth.

[shorty_harris]

I use AdBlock and NoScript. For me, it’s not about bandwidth. Most of the ads nowadays I find truly offensive.

[OpeEdMunkey]

AdBlock here - and I don’t have any guilt about using it.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

There are ads on the internet?

Between ABP and a custom hosts file, I don’t see any.

[Cicero]

I’ve been using AdMuncher for years. It’s a tiny program, very computer friendly, and I never see an internet ad.

[steve86]

A post script: I said earlier that I removed Adblock due to its redundancy when Noscript and Flashblock are installed. But a few static display ads do come through, although they tend not to be annoying ones. It just happened this evening that I saw an ad for a health insurance co. in my state that I was not familiar with — just the ticket since we will probably be losing our insurance. So once in a while — not that often — it is useful to see tailored ads.