How much does a blog make???

[ERD50]

Yes, quoting myself here...

I just noticed that ABP allows you to disable ad blocking an a site-by-site basis. So you are now enabled Andy , hopefully I don't find your ads too intrusive.

Hmmm, looks like I just got a pop-up window when closing an er.org tab. I hate windows popping up. Sorry, experiment over, ABP enabled.

-ERD50

 

[RonBoyd]

Hmmm, looks like I just got a pop-up window when closing an er.org tab. I hate windows popping up. Sorry, experiment over, ABP enabled.

What "Tab" are you referring to? I use MSIE and have never seen a "popup" on this site... other than that "Poll" thing a week or so ago.

I don't have any "special" ad blocking programs loaded on my machines but I suspect that there is, most likely, some built-in version in IE and perhaps in the Google Toolbar. In any event, I do nothing special to block ads or spam -- I need all the memory I can have for important things. (I am limited to 3gb in 32bit OS.) In addition, I don't have patience to wait for "something" to clear the decks before loading the screen.

 

[ERD50]

What "Tab" are you referring to? I use MSIE and have never seen a "popup" on this site... other than that "Poll" thing a week or so ago.

Firefox (and most other browsers) have tabbed browsing. Just another form of a window, but attached to a main window. Just like the tabbed spreadsheets in Excel. It's possible the pop-up was not related (but it seemed to be), but I'm not going to bother to find out, the ads didn't add value for me, I doubt I'd ever click one anyhow, but thats just me.

In addition, I don't have patience to wait for "something" to clear the decks before loading the screen.

I don't know how much memory ABP takes, it isn't a problem for me at any rate, since even fully loaded I have plenty of free memory out of my 3Gig, but that is user and OS dependant. I suppose it is possible that it is conserving memory by not loading the ads? I dunno.

And this isn't scientific, but it appears to me that everything runs faster with ABP enabled. I guess it saves the time of loading the ads, and it seems some of those ad servers can be notoriously slow. Again, not scientific, just an impression I got.

Obviously a personal choice and dependent on circumstances. Just sharing my observations.

-ERD50

 

[Andy R]

We do not serve pop-up or pup-under ads so I don't know what could have caused that.

ABP prevents the page from waiting for ads to load so it could speed up rendering of the page.

 

[RonBoyd]

We do not serve pop-up or pup-under ads so I don't know what could have caused that.

ABP prevents the page from waiting for ads to load so it could speed up rendering of the page.

I only jumped in because ERD50 mentioned a "er.org" tab.

I just got a pop-up window when closing an er.org tab

I thought I was missing out on something and couldn't go to sleep until... well you know.

Good to hear that about ABP (in the past that was rare behavior). I still consider ad-blockers a waste of resources on something that is so easily ignored, however.

 

[ERD50]

We do not serve pop-up or pup-under ads so I don't know what could have caused that.

ABP prevents the page from waiting for ads to load so it could speed up rendering of the page.

OK, must have been something else then - thanks.

-ERD50