The Underground Man

Adblocking with Firefox

I've found some beta tech for Firefox that allows one to block advertisements in Web pages.

I've been trying it for the last couple of days and it works pretty well. One has to select each string that calls up an ad to block (and that's fairly tedious) but once enabled it blocks pretty consistently.

I think the biggest win would be for modem users. Blocking the ad definitely speeds page loading on sites like Hotmail or Yahoo. Note, I've only done this with my PC version of Firefox. Time to go off and try it with the Mac version, too.

Caution, beta software!