2008/5/14 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm > browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks > like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can > detect when you're using Adblock and serves you ads in <tables> > instead, making them harder to block. > > Can anyone suggest a fix? I only use Gmail for mailing lists nowadays, > and have moved my personal email to a server in an undisclosed > location in a remote island... ;-) > > I'd be happy with a solution that either blocks all Gmail ads or a > better method to browse the 14 mailing lists I'm currently subscribed > to, many of them high-volume. I'm beginning to miss Usenet. >
I've started using adblock plus in Firefox as a particular blog that I enjoy reading has popup ads on almost every word of the articles. I've found that I now _miss_ the ads in gmail, as they are almost always relevant to what I'm reading. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
