February 9, 2008 3:35 PM PST
Adblock Plus: The blissful, ad-free browsing experience
I must admit, I've completely forgotten what Internet advertising looks like. I installed Adblock Plus with Firefox a year or so ago and I haven't seen an ad since.
Not a single one.
If you have yet to declare your independence from ads, I'd encourage you to do so. It's strangely serene browsing the web without advertisements.
It's not immoral to browse ad-free, as some suggest. No, there are far better business models for the web than simply spraying ad graffiti over everything. Entrepreneurs might just have to think again - use a little creativity - to figure them out.
In the meantime, I just wish there were a way to take Adblock Plus offline....
Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
2. I don't believe that ads are the only way to make money online (follow the link I give). Digitization of content enables as many business models as it shutters.
If you're blocking all the ads, you may not have noticed, then, that as often as not, your blog advertises Microsoft. Ha.. They spotted you!