{"id":128206,"date":"2015-10-01T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/blocking-ads.html"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:38:16","slug":"blocking-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/blocking-ads.html","title":{"rendered":"Blocking Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do the majority of my browsing from a desktop, not a mobile device. I&#39;ve been using AdBlock and its kin for eons, and I find it shocking on those occasions when I browse things where I <i>don&#39;t<\/i> have an ad blocker how slow and how cluttered the experience is.<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s true in spades on a mobile device, as the article describes. Alas, one significant drawback to the Android universe is that Google is not jiggy with ad blocking; the solutions I&#39;ve all seen involve at least partial rooting of the device, which is not my cuppa.<\/p>\n<p>But I will say that the slowness and uneven nature of web page loading with ads on my Android devices is one reason I <i>don&#39;t<\/i> brows all that much from them. When it takes a minute or two to load up a page fully, and I can&#39;t read the page because it keeps jumping back to the top as new in-stream ads are loaded, then I&#39;m not getting the functionality I need, and my conscience in avoiding that crap is pretty clear.<\/p>\n<p>I recognize the need for sites to have a revenue stream. I welcome anything that efficiently lets me get around the screaming paparazzi of online ads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/01\/technology\/personaltech\/ad-blockers-mobile-iphone-browsers.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/iKr9_npTr5GJ4cFCVHGMytlWEDc4CgLf2cwWs6xWggP7gMqXtHiE0qIb2y4in52AtzwLQCX1VbgBjuVV7KehbHrKB7OSLOWUY8vPT1ic6xvjapKVZaYy4fAwwCBhTaB54rLeaLbu7wHGRIhl31Go0-1RIbVNbpBFFH6cUiwYVq9XJ_D6j-n8nGn6bUh8QcIRzHMt5bzFdbbxSQ=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/01\/technology\/personaltech\/ad-blockers-mobile-iphone-browsers.html'>Putting Mobile Ad Blockers to the Test<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTwo tests were carried out with ad blockers: one to measure how much loading times were improved and the second to study battery life.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bman33fEDN8'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do the majority of my browsing from a desktop, not a mobile device. I&#39;ve been using AdBlock and its kin for eons, and I find it shocking on those occasions when I browse things where I don&#39;t have an ad blocker how slow and how cluttered the experience is. That&#39;s true in spades on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/blocking-ads.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blocking Ads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,80,47,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-media-commercial","category-my-computer","category-my-mobile-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50201,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/the-pcmobile-link-gets-stronger.html","url_meta":{"origin":128206,"position":0},"title":"The PC\/Mobile link gets stronger","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Apr-15 1:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"At least in the Android ecosystem. 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