Important info from the 5 Star Blog, I thought you should know. Webmasters I know (including myself) prefer FireFox for many reasons, but there are a growing number of FF extensions that hurt and literally ROB affiliates and webmasters of revenue. <strong>One is just like Norton and blocks all common ad servers including Commission Junction (CJ) links like qksrv.net and Linkshare affiliate links, as well as all common banner sizes. See my article on how Norton Blocks Affiliate Links (http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.com/norton-blocks-revenue.html) and then read the description of the FF extension in the blog below and you will see the functions and the sites it blocks are almost identical. There is even one that REPLACES Amazon links with your own. The description blatantly reads: "Exchanges Amazon affiliate ID’s with your own (claim the Amazon links on websites.) Not an affiliate so you're not worried? Are you a blogger? Do you show Adsense or other ads on your site? There are numerous extensions to block Adsense ads listed below as well. Sheesh. Text link ads are NOT intrusive. Just ignore them, why block them? Azam from NowSell.com writes a great review of this problem. See a long list of troublesome FireFox extensions at his blog: Webmasters, Could Firefox Be Bad For Your Health? http://www.nowsell.com/web-marketing-strategy/2006/webmasters-could-firefox-be-bad-for-your-health/ He states: My feeling on the whole ad blocking issue is this. People have the right to block pop ups because they are intrusive and often misused. People do not however have the right to erase, change block regular content on our sites. If they don't like ads they can ignore them or go to another site that is ad-less - IF they can find one. What do you think???
Thanks, I'll just install some of those j/k Like Shawn said in another thread, I dont think this kind of stuff will make much of a difference as its been going on for aaages. There's loads of addons for IE aswell and they make little impact.
ad blockers are pretty nice if you have slow access like dial-up - it won't load the graphics of many ads, but also remove the slower loads of off page ad servers of even text ads, so I think it has its place. Overwrites however, are not ethical in my book. (not a literal book, in case someone like gworld isn't smart enough to understand)