QtD 0.1 is out!

[Daniel Keep]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.658.1233882921.22690.digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com...
>>> http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions  I'm not exaggerating when I say
>>> that for a few months before I found that addon, using the web was so bad 
>>> I
>>> was *very* close to abandoning use of the web entirely.
>> What kind of sites do you go that are so bad?  I find things a little
>> annoying without FlashBlock, and I have Firefox's default popup
>> blocking on, but with those two things, I don't see much of anything
>> all *that* annoying in my day-to-day web use.  So I'm wondering if it
>> has to do with the sites you frequent or something?  Or is it just
>> your threshold for tolerating an ad or two is so much lower than mine?
>>
> 
> FlashBlock is another one of my essential addons :)
> 
> Let me put it this way: I don't have any sort of documented reading 
> disability (ex, I've always done well on reading comprehension tests). But 
> dispite that, I find it nearly impossible to read anything more than a 
> single trivial sentence whenever there's anything moving, blinking, 
> spinning, a slideshow, etc anywhere near the text (or when there's a voice 
> reading it to me). It's not just annoying, it's a genuine distraction that 
> my mind is simply unable to block out. Plus, as far as I'm concerned, there 
> shouldn't be any moving, spinning, pulsating, animating crap to be blocked 
> out of my mind in the first place. 

I run AdBlock, NoScript, FlashBlock and Nuke Anything Enchanced.  And if
I DO see an ad get through all that, I add the company to my mental
"people I will never buy from" list.

I'm an advertiser's worst nightmare.

  -- Daniel