http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2038&msg_id=2042 i've been using firefox/adblock since...ever? For a long time, that's for damn sure. kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) Mercy General Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:27:33 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2038&msg_id=2042 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2038&msg_id=2040 Started using AdBlock at home with Safari. Pretty effective thus far. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Mercy General Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:34:41 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2038&msg_id=2040 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2038&msg_id=2038 I started using Google's RSS Reader yesterday and am currently being flooded with tons of news along with reddit and other funnies. Of particular interest (besides Fallout: New Vegas DLC comming to the PC, woot!) I saw this today: Google Vs. MS(Bing) the nut of it is Google claims they caught Microsoft stealing Googles search results. Microsoft is claiming that users that have opted-in in IE to allow this, so it really wasn't stealing. Apparently there has already been twitter name calling and posts on their respective blogs. Should make for an interesting "fight" One thing I did take away from this though, is check your settings! Programs like IE will have these things turned on automatically, with a small checkbox during the install that you have to uncheck to not allow data mining. I'm sure Google does the same thing with all their services as they have google-analytics and a couple of ad sponsoring agencies. This goes back to the geeky tech side of me in which i spout my love of Firefox and extension like Adblock Plus and NoScript. Noscript has lots of user interaction which not everyone will like, but AdblockPlus really does remove 90% of the ads on the Internet and has no interaction once installed and configured. /end rant Governator@idkfa.com (Governator) Mercy General Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:04:22 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2038&msg_id=2038