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This site might play you an audio ad. it is supposed to be only 5 seconds long, and there will not be another one for at least 3 minutes, or as long as you stay on a given page. I am trying them out as an experiment. If they turn out to absolutely awful I'll drop them.
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If you
hate ads in general, use the
AdBlock Plus extension for
Firefox, or the
IE7pro add-in for
Internet Explorer.
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Also, use
HostsMan to block content from
aa.voice2page.com through the hosts file in
Windows. There are similar programs for
Mac or
Linux users. I use all 3 because I really don't like ads, except
Google adwords, which I can tolerate. After all, I display them on this blog and I get a small cheque from them once a year or so. My exclusion list looks like this:
adservices.google.com
googlesyndication.com
pagead.googlesyndication.com
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
ssl.google-analytics.com
www.googleadservices.com
www.google-analytics.com
Everything else gets blocked.
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HostsMan blocks other dodgy content apart from ads, which I appreciate too. Listeners to the
Security Now podcast will also know about Flash Cookies, which are used by the audio ads service. I would appreciate comments about the ads. My review of
PerfectDisk 2008 is on its way, power failures notwithstanding.
2 comments:
I don't mind a few subtle ads, I use the proceeds to pay for my hosting.
Sadly I'm not allowed sound on, so no audio ads for me (is that a good or bad thing ?).
Cheers Nick
marron's hostess. ver4's ui is more sensible than previous ver. A checkbox offers to 'export' hostess's db to HOSTS after the import finishes.
proxomitron is numero uno garbage blocker. proxo is possibly stopping your audio. also, i keep xp's audio svc off, so I don't know if any audio could play even when proxo is bypassed.
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