And thank you to Rich Sterling and all the other hard workers who make my online browsing a lot more enjoyable and effective. I am a poor unfortunate dialup user (NOT by choice!) And the number of ad?s etc on some pages these days borders on the insane! I swear some pages are 65% ad's, 20% garbage, and 15% useful content!
Soapbox
I am one of those who doesn't begrudge anyone making some money off a few useful and unobtrusive ad's, and have added my fave worthwhile sites to my ADP 'white' list.
I encourage others to do the same! Where would we all be without people like Rich? I have no problem with them having a few ads, and will even click on them to help out. I think it's the least we can do to encourage the development of good Open Source and free products. Just think how miserable our life would be without them. Of course, I also have nothing against blocking everything possible for the greedy money grabbers who give nothing back. ;)
/soapbox
Ahem... Anyway, I just want to say how much I appreciate the work you all do to make the amazing Adblock Plus even better!!
So... Partly because I am on dialup, I hate to waste time online, even though I do have a good ISP and I can (and have) stayed connected for a week on my unlimited dialup plan (I never get kicked thankfully), and they have a good caching compressed proxy system that makes my limited bandwidth double normal or even more.
One of the many Firefox extension I like and use is called "Redirect Remover". Homepage:
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http://akaxeen.tyllo.de/?page=rdr
One problem with it is that it doesn't know about "adp://" links and converts them to normal "http://" links. You can get around this by adding the following to it's 'Whitelist' options:
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@@^adp://subscribe/*
@@*adblock*
If there are any other dialup users (or anyone really) that would be interested in what FF extensions I have found most useful, please let me know. (Is that OK Rich?)
Once again, thanks all!
Cheers and Peace.
K42.