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by RyanMcGreal 5961 days ago
How many programmers don't have some form of adblock in their browsers?
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jrockway 5960 days ago
Judging by many of the questions on SO, I'm surprised the people asking them can even manage to use a web browser with the default settings.

If someone ran a malware-ad campaign on SO, I'm sure a significant number of people would be infected.

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jasonkester 5960 days ago
Considering how often I rebuild my dev machines, I couldn't imagine tracking down all these obscure plugins every time I built a box. Firefox gets installed, along with Firebug and the AWS plugins, then sits idle in the taskbar until I need to use it for testing something.

I'm actually surprised by how many programmers DO have adblock.

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Sukotto 5960 days ago
Some of us automate our installs.

Check out the FEBE and OPIE plugins for firefox. Host the archives someplace (dropbox works well) and write a little install script and you're done.

Installing stuff by hand is so last century...

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RyanMcGreal 5960 days ago
I'm actually surprised by how many programmers still install stuff. :)
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