From: B_Gaffney@My-Deja.com (B.Gaffney)
Subject: Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play
Date: 21 Jun 2001 14:47:57 -0700
Date: 2001-06-21T21:47:57+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f6e2b77.0106211347.6c60e8ac@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9gl34g$ah5$1@nh.pace.co.uk
"Marin David Condic" wrote
...
> If there was an "Ada-scape-lorer" out
> there that had buttons like "Turn Off Advertising" and "Display Text First"
> and a bunch of other filter capabilities that were jsut sitting there
> instead of something you have to download as an extra, it might be a really
> good thing.
>
> MDC
Well, this would be a good way to test the robustness of your browser.
I'd imagine that most advertisers would consider such a filter A Bad
Thing :-). They want you to be sitting there with nothing to do but
read their ads while you wait for your text to be displayed. They'd
do whatever they could to break your browser.
--Brian
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-17 0:29 An Old Market in which Ada May Play Jeffrey Carter
2001-06-18 1:38 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-06-18 4:14 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-06-21 16:11 ` Charles Hixson
2001-06-18 14:27 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-19 1:36 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-06-21 21:47 ` B.Gaffney [this message]
2001-06-21 22:24 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-21 1:50 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-06-21 14:49 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-21 15:27 ` Olivier Devuns
2001-06-21 16:56 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-21 17:44 ` Olivier Devuns
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