{"id":3092,"date":"2012-05-12T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:18","slug":"plug-for-plug-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2012\/05\/plug-for-plug-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plug-in Plug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook makes its money from on-line games, which I don&#8217;t play, and on-line advertising, which I don&#8217;t see.\u00a0 In fact, I rarely see any ads on the internet, because I use AdBlock Plus for Firefox.\u00a0 AdBlock is a free plug-in that is available for <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/adblock-plus\/\">Firefox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/safariadblock.com\/\">Safari<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom\">Chrome<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/simple-adblock.com\/\">Internet Explorer<\/a>.\u00a0 On rare occasions, I have to disable it to make a site display properly (most notably Gannett-owned newspapers) but this is due to non-standard web code, not the ad-blocker itself.<\/p>\n<p>On the left is what you see when you visit www.nytimes.com &#8212; on the right is what I see.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why everyone doesn&#8217;t use this &#8212; it&#8217;s the internet equivalent of fast-forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3093   \" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"NYTimes without AdBlock\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt2-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt2-640x446.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3094  \" title=\"NYTimes with AdBlock\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt1-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt1-640x445.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyt1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook makes its money from on-line games, which I don&#8217;t play, and on-line advertising, which I don&#8217;t see.\u00a0 In fact, I rarely see any ads on the internet, because I use AdBlock Plus for Firefox.\u00a0 AdBlock is a free plug-in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2012\/05\/plug-for-plug-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3794,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}