09:26 PM
Books Adverts, Books and more Mozilla

I added some adverts over on the right. The one for getting paid for answering surveys is a good one, absolutely no spam, just their emails once or twice a month with a link to their survey and every so often, they pay, sometimes just for taking the survey, sometimes from winning their drawing from taking the survey. I get checks every now and then for $10, $5, $15 and once I got a check for $100 right when I really needed it, I was on my way to the bank to deposit a loan from my mom and checked the snail mail as I walked to the car and lookie there, just like magic! And they've never spammed me or sold my address, I use a special one just for them and it gets no spam so I know they're safe.

The ads for Amazon, the book one, where it shows a title and book cover, I like that, I can keep up with what's new, it's set to show mysteries, something random each time.

And I added a link at the bottom of the page for Mozilla, I've become a Mozilla zealot. It's a fabulous browser, I was looking thru preferences for something else and realized that, along with blocking popups and new windows and window resizing (common ad tricks) there's a choice to only show images from the originating server. Since ads usually come from external servers, not the one the website is housed on, this would eliminate a whole lot of ad images on website pages! I did find that unfortunately it also eliminated all news photos at CNN since they store their photos elsewhere so I turned that option off.

But I found another way to block ad images, I can right click on an ad image and select "Block images from this server" and that gets rid of all the ads from those servers. This allows me to see news photos at CNN but not their ads. It doesn't stop Flash ads, tho, but it gets rid of alot, the Yahoogroups website loads much faster and I don't have to run some other anti-popup program that takes up memory.

And the tabbed interface has become invaluable, for opening links in the background while I continue to read on the main site or opening up various pages from a Google search in the background while I look for more. As I type this, I have a window open with my blog site, this window for the blog admin to type this entry and the Amazon page to check out a book.

So I'm a Mozilla zealot! I can use an up to date, javascript enabled browser with a tabbed interface that's memory efficient and removes ads! :)