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Comment on Moving from MacPorts to Homebrew by Derrell Piper

Derrell Piper — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:26:47 +0000

Being late to this party, I nonetheless have to comment.

I too have been with MacPorts from the beginning and while it’s my favorite of the BSD-derived package managers from a users perspective (i.e., figuring out how to make it do what you want), it’s mutated into a monster that’s constantly installing the entire X.org distribution, Perl, Python, and thousands of libfoos, most of which already exist in /usr/lib. Yes, I know, they’re not always compatible and don’t always work. But then again, the opposite is also true. The libraries in /usr/lib do what they do correctly in OS X. The stuff MacPorts installs, not so much. I understand why MacPorts went the direction they did, I just don’t want that on my system and brew seems to do exactly what I’m looking for. I also appreciate that it’s backed into github. I could care less that it’s written in Ruby.

Put away those stone knives and bearskins my friends…

Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:23:23 +0000

I haven’t really used an ad-blocker either for years. Can’t really say I’m bothered (except for the intro-ad-videos on youtube, etc. They’re too intrusive).

Of course the internet could be free without ads. There would just be a lot less money in it (and a lot fewer jobs, companies, conferences and community, etc).

Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by Ads Are Annoying

Ads Are Annoying — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:20:28 +0000

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Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by No Need

No Need — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:35:35 +0000

I block ads because I want to live in a world where it is impossible to support yourself by publishing. I believe the quality of life on earth with be dramatically improved if this ever comes to pass.

Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by chauzer

chauzer — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:15:07 +0000

@Franklin Chen says:
November 27, 2011 at 3:43 pm
As long as I live, I will do everything in my power to use every resource possible to prevent ads from hitting my eyeballs or eardrums or nose or tongue, and to help everyone around me (parents, friends, colleagues) to also avoid them. Ad Block is one of the greatest heroes of freedom in this increasingly brave new world.

agreed!

Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by chauzer

chauzer — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:12:18 +0000

Ads are terrible. If i know im never going to click an ad, might as well block them from showing up anyways. There’s a reddit thread a few days ago where a user went to some random cracked.com page and noticed without an adblocker, the page made 200+ http requests. With adblocker on, it only made about 100. So it’s not just about the ads being in your face on the page, but also the load time of the page and the browsing experience.

Here’s a good post about ads from last week: http://www.elezea.com/2011/11/future-of-web-reading/

Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by John Humphrey

John Humphrey — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:48:56 +0000

IMO this is a fallacy: “The internet can only be free if we allow ads.”
But it wasn’t the point you were making and you probably didn’t give it much thought.
IMO, the basic paradigm of ‘user as ad target’ is inherently demeaning and humiliating, and the lack of better business models simply denotes a lack of collective commitment and creativity. A great talk that explores this issue is Jaron Lanier’s Edge interview: http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip
In the meantime I would encourage anyone using an ad blocker to get a http://Flattr.com account and start tipping (with real money) your favorite content providers.

Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by khalil

khalil — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:37:55 +0000

I understand that people want to make money off their pages and content, but some people are not the target audience for advertising. Word of mouth for me is the most powerful thing, as is the ability to see and hold something tangible. As long as I can do it, ads will always be blocked on my computer. Never bought anything as a result of an online ad and likely never will, so I am not their target audience, no matter what demographic they try to place me into.

Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by Juha

Juha — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:28:15 +0000

Being so worried about ads slowing down pageloads, but still want to support the website; wouldn’t the best option be some sort of delayed ad-load? instead of blocking all entries on blacklist, move the adserver content to the bottom of load-order? (aka. ads start to load only when the content is ready.)

Comment on How I survived one week without an adblocker by Wulfen

Wulfen — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:16:40 +0000

Actually i don’t mind the banners and overlays. And Adblock Plus for Firefox allows me to switch of the blocker for individual sites which i tried for a site where i spend a lot of time watching streams an videos.
But then i got a commercial Intro video everytime i switched stream/video (which i do frequently) and adding insult to injury always the same single on in one day.. I activated the blocker again.