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Goodbye Adsense, Goodbye Adverts

Sep16
2011 Written by Mauldor

This morning I got the dreaded email from Google telling me that my adsense account has been disabled due to invalid click activity. I shall be honest and say that I half expected this coming, I was shocked it took so long, they authorised the payment and it was planned to go into the bank and the end of this month – alas not. I have removed all adverts from this site and not putting any back on, if anybody is loosing out here, I feel it was google.

After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable your AdSense account. Your outstanding balance and Google’s share of the revenue will both be fully refunded to the affected advertisers.

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Browser Shootout, which is best?

Mar17
2011 Written by Mauldor

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The great thing about web browsers is they are all free and in reality you can load as many as you want on whatever operating system you choose. Recently though we had Internet Explorer V9 released to the world, we had Firefox V4 RC and finally Chrome is at Version 10 I think. You can scour the web and find benchmarks and these shows (Depending on which site they used to test them) that <insert browser name here> is the best. I want to explore this from my own personal view point, both in a work situation and at home and show that indeed, there is not one clear winner.

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Firefox 4 Beta 12 with Adblock and Ghostery

Feb27
2011 Written by Mauldor

I need to state here that websites need adverts, they use this as a mean to get money which in turn helps pay for the time and effort they put into producing the goods. Static adverts I can live with and even sometimes they show me something I might want to buy and all is good but when a site (mostly the video streaming sites) start to push adverts down your throat and they are loud and annoying and repeat over and over on each new page you go to – this is when you as a person need to take a stand.

While I Love the way Google Chrome works, there is just too many things that make me want to jump ship back to Firefox such as Adverts, flash slowing down the browser, my NAS box not working properly via Chrome and so forth. I have given the latest Firefox 4 Beta 12 a run and added a couple of extension and I will document how  it is working out for me so far.

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Google Chrome finally has proper Adblock

Dec21
2010 Written by Mauldor

I had a quick look to see if any progress was made over providing an actual adblocking tool for Google chrome and to my surprise the Firefox one is now ported across (in some shape or fashion) to chrome. The Extension can be added into Chrome and starts blocking adverts just like FireFox does. I tested it across various sites I just Know never worked before such as Justin.TV, YouTube and random other video related sites that inject adverts. The end result is now it all works – so back to chrome for the sheer speed – which is up to version 9 By the way).

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Moving back to Firefox

Oct17
2010 Written by Mauldor

There was a time I stood by Firefox as my browser of choice and when using at various places I work, it was frowned upon, I should be using IE after all right? Google Chrome came along and at first I failed to see the point of this browser and carried on using Firefox until 3.6 Series. I finally took a look at using Chrome on a daily basis and it *almost* managed to win me over while Firefox kept updating in the background.

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Google Chrome – Not living up to the Hype

Feb23
2010 Written by Mauldor

simonI had noticed a couple of problems when using my otherwise fine Firefox 3.6, one been the pause when you first go to a page and the other was the browser crashing when trying to view Justin.TV Archives function (when it got to the end of the segment).

I was tempted to try Google Chrome after everybody told me how good it was, faster, better and all round amazing. Could I take Chrome and make it my main browsing platform? Had it come a long way since I last tried it? Did it use a lot less memory and was it more secure?

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Leave the Adverts at Home

Aug31
2009 Written by Mauldor

 

You know the problem, you love watching Ustream, Justin.TV and the many others streaming sites out there but in order to provide a Free Service to all – they plasters the page with adverts and this can get distracting. You want a way to get rid of these and view the page as it was intended? then read on..  

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