[Novalug] Displaying Clean Web Pages

[Peter Larsen]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 20:17 -0500, American Dave wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:41:12PM -0500, Elllis Pierce wrote:
> 
> > It’s a new button on your Web browser’s toolbar. With one click, it eliminates 
> > EVERYTHING from the Web page you’re reading except the text and photos. No 
> > ads, blinking, links, banners, promos or anything else. 
> 
> Adblock Plus and Flashblock are mandatory add-ons for me.  NoScript was 
> favorite as well, until the unfortunate 1.9.2 version fiasco.


I wish I could do with FlashBlock - but too many sites are Flash-only
for me these days :( *grrrr*.
Adblock Plus is definitely the first add-on I download on every firefox
install I do.

That said - as things are moving forward, tools more advanced than
google-apps are coming out to run solely within the browser - without
"fat client" components. Since we've had so many bad programs utilize
the powerful features we tend to want to disable/block them - but there
are advantages in allowing them ON THE RIGHT SITES. I for one, have
never figured out what the big hobbock is about allowing cookies for
instance. They're pretty secure as is. With technologies such as AJAX
giving java-script permissions to load external sites becomes necessary
- even outside it's own domain.

Btw. how come that quite a few of the "secure" OpenSource sites out
there use bad/expired SSL certs? Doesn't that defeat the purpose to
begin with? I tend to want to not accept bad certs but I find myself
having to do exactly that more often than not.

-- 

Best Regards
  Peter Larsen

Wise words of the day:
"Here's something to think about:  How come you never see a headline like
`Psychic Wins Lottery'?"
		-- Jay Leno
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