 davidu
join:2006-12-28
San Francisco, CA | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: It's only going to take one organized campaign said by fAcEtIOUs:Since you apparently work for OpenDNS, maybe you could answer this question? I can try.
said by fAcEtIOUs:When using a browser based ad blocker like adblock plus on Firefox or IE7Pro on Internet Explorer, which gets control of the blocking 1st - the browser based ad blocker or the OpenDNS category blocking service? I think we do... but go ahead and try blocking doubleclick.net and see what happens...
said by fAcEtIOUs:The answer could be meaningful since your "Adware" category blocking would return an error msg say when blocking doubleclick.net, if I read the notes on your web site correctly. If OpenDNS gets control 1st and sends an error msg, that could mess up the correct rendering of a web page with the ads stripped out. We do a good job not messing up. At least, we try. Give it a whirl and tell me what you think.  |
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| said by davidu:said by fAcEtIOUs:The answer could be meaningful since your "Adware" category blocking would return an error msg say when blocking doubleclick.net, if I read the notes on your web site correctly. If OpenDNS gets control 1st and sends an error msg, that could mess up the correct rendering of a web page with the ads stripped out. We do a good job not messing up. At least, we try. Give it a whirl and tell me what you think. I'll try it out as soon as the doubleclick domains get out of the "Undecided" category.
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davidu
join:2006-12-28
San Francisco, CA | You can always block domains individually of course in your account (and whitelist them too). |
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| said by davidu:You can always block domains individually of course in your account (and whitelist them too). I gave it a try and it looks like adblock plus gets 1st crack and then opendns domain blocking after that. See the following 4 clips to show the results:
Neither adblocking technology turned on:
Only OpenDNS domain blocking on:
Only Adblock Plus add-on turned on:
Both OpenDNS domain blocking and Adblock Plus add-on turned on:
So it looks like Firefox Adblock Plus add-on will get control 1st and if that doesn't catch it, then OpenDNS domain blocking will catch any that are missed.
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