[toddkaufmann]

Why are you getting ads ? Install adblock and/or ghostery. Fewer distractions, fewer cycles going to adware. I don't see ads in search results or gmail, and not a lot of other places either. Noticeably different on a tablet though, where it doesn't run.

At the other extreme is adnauseum, which clicks on every ad link in the background (so you don't have to).

[kbenson]

I don't know about the above commenter, but I have a complex relationship with ads and adblock. I installed it to get around some particularly nauseating behavior of some sites long ago, and largely forgot about it and browsed blissfully unaware of how much it was helping. Then I realized that someone else's Pandora was playing ads, and mine wasn't, it just plays song after song. I felt rather bad about that. This is a well established transactional structure which we are all used to on the radio, songs interspersed with the occasional ad to generate revenue. I feel like I've been stealing from Pandora for a few months now, especially because I've been on the cusp of paying for it for a few months even without the ads.

Visual content with visual ads isn't really that different, except that some sites vastly overshoot the expected norm for the ad-inconvenience to content ratio. I think those few bad-actors are to blame for most the current online ad-climate.

[eru]

Why don't you just pay for Pandora and feel good about yourself? (Interesting enough, they make more money on the ads than on a paid subscriber.)

> Visual content with visual ads isn't really that different, except that some sites vastly overshoot the expected norm for the ad-inconvenience to content ratio. I think those few bad-actors are to blame for most the current online ad-climate.

Yes, convenience is key. Print magazines often have around 50% ads, but they don't bother as much as on a screen.

[Omniusaspirer]

Thanks for the adnaseum mention, looks like it's still in a pretty early stage but it's exactly the sort of thing I've been looking for (and contemplating coding myself).

[coldpie]

If you have an Android tablet, AdBlock runs very well in FireFox for Android.

[cpeterso]

Firefox for Android supports browser add-ons, including Adblock Plus.