{"id":3220,"date":"2016-05-16T01:37:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T17:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2016-05-16T01:37:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T17:37:01","slug":"ad-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/05\/16\/ad-blocking","title":{"rendered":"Ad blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I run ads here, but I really don&#8217;t think Google AdSense is bad. What is really annoying me? Video, animated graphics, heavy ads, even on sites that I&#8217;m paying subscriptions for to read. I&#8217;m happy with a subscription and AdSense, but they&#8217;re not doing just that! They are consuming my CPU cycles, ensuring that when I&#8217;m working on the battery, these tabs are just taking away precious power.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of using AdBlock Plus, but I recall there were some issues with it in the past (maybe around being paid to be whitelisted). So my solutions of choice in the Chrome browser now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/disconnect.me\/\">Disconnect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/privacybadger\">Privacy Badger<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m whitelisting some sites, logging into some others (e.g. Forbes), or finding out that some extensions like <a href=\"http:\/\/bufferapp.com\/\">Buffer<\/a> is broken (easy fix: on the first site that you try to use the extension on, just whitelist it in Privacy Badger and things will &#8220;just work&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on the Internet for over 20 years, and this is the second time I&#8217;ve decided to use ad blocking software. Maybe when we&#8217;re respected as readers (see: going back to Google AdSense), I will disable the above extensions. Till then, I&#8217;m more productive on a battery for just that little longer&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Ad%20blocking&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2016%2F05%2F16%2Fad-blocking&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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What is really annoying me? Video, animated graphics, heavy ads, even on sites that I&#8217;m paying subscriptions for to read. I&#8217;m happy with a subscription and AdSense, but they&#8217;re not doing just that! They are consuming my CPU cycles, ensuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Ad%20blocking&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2016%2F05%2F16%2Fad-blocking&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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