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GOLFnSUN
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 Seeing how many ads this s/w gets rid of ....

no wonder it is popular. Besides clearing a lot of useless junk off the screen, it saves the time needed to resolve the addresses and also download all the ads. This makes browsing with an ad blocker even faster.

Here are 2 examples of how effectively this type of product gets rid of ads:




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richdelb
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Algonquin, IL		 I agree. Browsing with ad blocker is much faster. Most of the slowness I ever see with web pages is from the ad servers. Things are much quicker now.

Plus... Just think of all the precious bandwidth we are saving......
to forum · permalink · · 2007-09-04 09:48:49 · Reply to this


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Exactly...

I don't need all that stuff cluttering up my screen.

Look, I know people generate revenues from having ads on their site, it's the nature of the beast. But you can bet if I have any say about it, I'm going to go for the purest, cleanest surf I can find.

Firefox/NoScript/AdBlocker Plus = NICE
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