Some of your favorite newspapers and magazines rely on advertising.
Some of the ads on Ghacks are impression based, which means that I earn a penny or two even if you do not click on them or interact with them in another way.There’s AdBlocker Ultimate that gets rid of every single ad, but buyer beware. Here they can select to disable the add-on on the current site. I know that some of you do and I'm thankful for that.Īdblocker users can click on the icon in the left corner of the browser window in Firefox to bring up the configuration menu. Ideally, I would hope that those of you who install or use ad blockers have the courtesy to disable those blockers on my site. A webmaster who earns his living from ads is advising users to block ads on. I also know that this must sound ridiculous to some. It feels kinda strange that there are not more userscripts and extensions to block ads on Google, especially so if you have monitored the increasing number of ads on the search result pages. Results may not look as pretty as on Google but that's usually not a problem. It comes without the ads and tracking that users are subject to on Google. The custom Google search engine Scroogle is an alternative. Google Chrome users can download and install a comparable solution called Adblock for Chrome. NoScript on the other hand does not block the ads of the Google search engine.Īfter installing Adblock Plus the same search results page on Google looked like this:Īll of the ads were gone, without doing any form of customization first. I do not use the Firefox ad blocker as I'm perfectly fine with the NoScript add-on. The one thing that I did not think about at first was the most obvious choice in this regard: Adblock Plus. My second stop was the Firefox add-on repository where I did not find an awful lot of Google specific ad blocking solutions. I first tried to find a userscript but there was none that was up to date in this regard.
And that's usually when I come in contact with the ads on those pages. If I cannot find what I'm looking for on Bing, I head over to to search there. I do have to admit though that I do not use one search engine exclusively. I have switched my search engine to Bing some time ago. The example below is probably not the best, as it misses other Google properties and services (like news, videos, Google places) that are usually included in the search results. If you'd remodel your website after this, you'd be certainly penalized by Google's new Panda algorithm which tries to improve the quality of search engine results (oh the irony). In worst case currently, only one organic search result is showing up above the fold on Google. I'm not the only one who made that observation.
0 kommentar(er)
